LizT

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Out of all the famous figure on the web, I picked the little boy pulling gum of his shoe. I picked it because at first glance it looked easy to do. It isn’t too busy, the background was simple, and it seemed the colors would be easy to come up with. I also love the colors used in it, they seem to go well.=====

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Drawing the picture was pretty easy going, no problems there. I could have mapped out the different shades more though. Working with oil pastels was hard for me, it was my first time really using them. Getting the right shades of the color was not easy, and it still turned out too light. I hated working on face, too many shades in one little area.=====

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All in all, I do not like my project. If I could I would start with a whole new picture. I really don’t like his face, the shading could have been better. I liked his clothes over all, mostly the left sleeve.=====



Social Issue project. My social issue is something outside our country and not well known, this would be child soldiers. Child soldiers were brought to my attention about a year ago watching the movie “Invisible Children”. The movie was based on three college students who decide to make a trip to Uganda, uncertain what they will find. In the end they have a story on child soldiers in Uganda. It’s hard to imagine what it would be like to be kidnapped, then forced to kill your family. I feel bad for those kids who are in this situation; they have to go through so much mentally and physically, before they turn 18. They have been through more then we can even imagine, and their stories are real.

The problems I have come across were making the figure. I just didn’t know how to make a proportional person out of clay. Once I finished it the butt was way too huge, so I cut it off. The next problem was having the arms and legs stick, and have them stay on with out cracking. Some slip and more clay helped the figure to stay together. With my background I had a problem with making the left side look too much like a science fair project. I put some tissue paper over the pictures to give them a tint of red, but I think it still looks like a science fair project.

I think my piece is persuading, and also brings the issue to people attention. Since Child soldiers are not well know, it gets the word out and tells what it really is. The thing that doesn’t work for me is the tissue paper over the pictures, it looks like its kind of just put on there. If I were to do this project again, I think I would keep the same issue. But I would do something different with the collage, maybe use different color then white, like black.

In this painting I think the issue is smoking and how it will kill you. There is a person in the background, which I think is how it affects the people around the smoker. The person turning into a skeleton while smoking really gives the point. The smoke gives the point that it destroys people and things around them. It is a strong point about smoking and can be effective if people really stop and think.