Shelby

__Artist Statement__

It took me awhile to find the picture I wanted to do, but when I found this one I new it was the one. In the past I have noticed that there was a lot of pictures of dancers but I wanted to do something different. I also wanted to find a picture with fun colors and would still look ok even when I was done. It turned out that my picture was not as easy as I thought it would be. I had a really hard time with the hair. I couldn’t get it to look like hair, and make it look like the light was shining off from it. I also had a hard time with the skin. I started off with oil pastel then changed to acrylic paint. I found out that working with the paint was much easier then working with oil pastel. For one thing it was really hard to mix the oil pastels to get just the right color. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. I really like the background and the caterpillar. I’m also happy with the skin color it took me awhile but I think it turned out all right. I wish I had taken more time and work a little harder on it but I still think it works all right. __ Art two Exam __

The theme I chose for my social issue was sexism in sports. I chose this because I play sports and I have notice almost all the attention goes to the boys. For example our varsity girls team just won against Lakeview and this was the first time they beat Lakeview in twenty years. The next day in the paper the main picture and story was a boy’s team that had won, and our story was off to the side with all the other teams. Personally I think our team’s story was much more interesting then the story they had on the front of the boy’s team. Another time I experienced sexism in sports was when I was in band in the 6th grade our teacher, had said he wanted us to start a pep-band. I was really excited at first but then I found out we would only be doing this for the boy’s game. I raised my hand and ask why we would only be doing this for the boy’s and he simply said “Because I don’t want to keep everybody here everyday of the week for games.” But the truth was the varsity girls played right before the boys and they only played on Tuesday’s and Friday’s. When I started this project I wasn’t really sure what to do. I couldn’t think of a social issue that I really felt a connection to. Originally I started with diabetes and the media. Then I thought about sports and the unfair treatment between boys and girls, and felt I had a stronger connection to sexism in sports. I felt like I could do a lot more with the sexism in sport then diabetes in the media. Right off the bat I had trouble getting a vision of what I want my background to look like. So I started working on my figure. I thought it was really difficult to make a figure out of clay. It would either be to fat, or I would cut some off and it would be too small. I also had a heck of a time trying to get my legs to stay attached to the torso. Once I got my board for background I kind of just went with the flow of things. I actually like how it turned out, but if I had to do it again I would take more time on things.

I believe the social issue being betrayed is freedom of speech or expression. I think this because it is showing a person with there mouth covered by an American flag and I believe this person is struggling with and issue like maybe being gay, and in America there are a lot of people who look down upon this. I think this person feels like they are not being able to express themselves and this picture is showing