RachaelB



My figurative piece is a picture of Marilyn Monroe.I chose this piece because, I find her to be one of the prettiest women that I have ever seen. She was a size 16 in pant size and she was not ashamed of it. I too am a size 16. the picture just lets me know that a woman can be beautiful no matter what size she is. It gives me confidence, I don't feel as ashamed as I usually am. I also love old pictures of models in the 50s and 60s.

The process that I did was first I started to grid. I made a one inch grid on a sheet of paper. I also gridded the original picture. I did this so that when I started to draw I could draw each square like the squares on the original picture. Then I got an ebony pencil and started to shade. I then got some graphite powder and used it to shade some more. Then lastly I took an eraser to her swimsuit to make the white really pop out like in the original picture.

I think that my picture was successful. I think that if I were to have the option to do it again I would have to say no. I would have picked a more colorful picture. This picture was a little bit difficult, but I made it work. I had it critiqued a few times. Each time let me know what to fix and what looked good. And that is the reason that I think it was successful.



For the social issue project I decided to choose animal cruelty. The reason that I chose this theme is because I have a huge heart when it comes to animals. I realized that it is a continued problem. More and more animals are being abused, killed, and neglected every year. It just breaks my heart to have to know this goes on every day.

My creative process through this project has been completely scrambled. I encountered several problems during this project. First off my clay figure exploded. Then when I got my poster almost done, I realized that my pictures and stuff were too random. There was just too much going on and it wasn’t coming together. So we ended up cutting it in half.

I believe that my project could have been way better. The letters are crooked and since I used hot glue I cant really fix anything without ruining it. So therefore I don’t really believe it was as successful as I had hoped it to have been. The only thing I think I would do differently would be to fix the lining up of my words I believe that my project defiantly persuades my viewers to know what my opinion of the topic is.



I believe that in this work of art the point they are trying to get across it that air pollution is killing the earth. Their view is that it is killing out planet. It looks as if they used different fabrics and some paint. The fabric gives it an awesome texture. It in my opinion is a very successful piece of art work, because the moment I looked at it, I thought about air pollution.