Nichole



When choosing a piece to work with I decided to choose this one because of the unique pose of he horse and rider. I also chose it because of the colors that were in the painting and because of my love of horses. If I was to do this project again I would proably choose the same painting. When drawing and using the oil pastels I worked from the top down and left to right working on one square at a time. When I was using the oil pastels I used a scrap piece of paper to make sure I got the colors to match the actuall painting. Some of the colors were off but they came very close. I was unable to see some of the painting because it was fuzzy on the copy that I had so I was able to guess on what things would look like such as the bottom part of the chaps and the mans face. I am very happy with the outcome of my artwork. My favorite part and what I think turned out the best would be the mans shirt and the horses butt. I like the mans shirt because it shows that the man is turned. I aslo like the hoses utt because it looks as if it could be 3D. What I didn’t like when I got done with my artwork was the Mans face because it was very difficult to make it 3D like the rest of th painting and it was hard to get the nose and eye in the right spot.

When deciding on what social issue to choose for I had to choose an issue that ment something personally to me. So I chose to do Horse Slaughter because I have horses and when I See or here about what these poor animals are going through I realize that if it wasn’t for me my horses could be possibly going through the same thing and I am very glad that they don’t have to go through the torture that other horses go through. When making my poster I had to decide how I was going to make the viewers have a emotional attachment to the issue. So I decided to split the background in half and have one half based on the torture and the hurt that the horses go through and the other half based on how to help and how to stop the torture and the suffering that the animals go through. On the half that’s based on everything that’s bad I splattered red paint and put picture of horses that were on their way to slaughter and quotes about the abuse and some facts on the how to help side I splattered purple paint to go along with the purple ribbon that is a symbol for being against horse slaugher, I put how to help and quotes about how amazing horses are and picture of little kids and horses. Some problems that occurred were figuring out where to put the pictures and how to write the facts and quotes. When making the clay figure I made a horse laying down, I attempted to make a little girl kneeling down next to the horse but she broke into many pieces when I was bring her to school. It was suppost to symbolize that a horse is a little girls best friend and that her best friend shouldn’t be taken away from her. Everything about this project worked expecially the horse which was my favorite part to make. The only thing that did not was the clay figure of the little girl that was needed to make this project complete. If I had a chance to do this project again I would make sure that the little girl was finished.

The social issue that is being shown in the above photo is being homeless. The artist was trying to bring they're point across by showing that the little boy dosent have anything and live in a poor enviroment. The artist shows this by using the tin and the card board like walls of a shack that is sometimes used as a home.They also have the little boy in rags.