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image/4113269_orig.jpg I feel that I can do this, I want to do this in Oil pastel, because I feel that if I do it any other way then it may not turn out how I wish for it to. I think that it'd be easier to do because it's mainly, pinkish/red shades, and green shades, and blue shades. I feel that I know that I'm going to do well on this because if I'm good at drawing, than I'm good with doing an Oil pastel painting.



I had many problems creating my painting, I could not get any colors correct on my painting, I used oil pastel, but I just couldn't blend anything. I switched to watercolor paints because I found it completely easier to blend my colors, and I found it completely easier to see what was forming! I don't think this was the best I've ever done, I didn't get as much help as anybody else did, so I didn't know what to do. I always asked my sister for help, but she said that it didn't really look like the colors on the picture at all.

I don't like this painting, it really wasn't what I expected to see when I finished, it was more colorful and the shapes were completely off. I feel that I could have done better as of getting colors to look like they do in the picture. I think that I could have taken more time on the blending also, maybe if I had just a few more days to finish the project, It probably would've looked better.

I chose to draw this because I love animals. I love how animals are a big part of nature, and help the world be a better place. I had trouble finding good ways to show my love for the animals, I drew it all in pencil because I didn’t want to add any color. I can draw better than I can color a picture with a lot of space. I drew a girl with a dress on because I feel I can draw woman better with dresses and skirts, than shorts and jeans. I drew mostly wildlife animals like horses, wolves, tigers, and I drew a girl’s face up close. I think that I could have done better and added color though, I think it would have looked more appropriate and more approving. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^My figure and my background^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I chose this social issue because animal abuse is a big highlight in America. Animals are being abused all over the world in today’s society. Just the other day my dog was outside enjoying the sunshine beat down on him. My dog, Max, is a boxer and a Pit bull mixed and usually pit bulls are the most abused dogs in the world. I found out that my neighbors bought BB guns, and they shot at targets, but they decided to make my dog a target. They shot at him, making him yipped, and he whimpered, I heard it all, a gun shot sounded like a 22 going off down the road in the woods. It was a BB gun hitting my dog with a BB, I instantly got angry, they told me to make my dog stop barking, but what do dogs normally do? They bark. When dogs bark, it’s either because they see someone they don’t know, or they see an animal; in the case, my dog seen an animal, and they shot him for barking. He did nothing wrong, he was being a dog right? I showed my mom the mark they left on him, my dog had a little mark on his leg, and it was bleeding. The neighbors were outside still, and my brother was doing the lawn, they said, “If I hear their dog bark again, I’ll shoot him again.” That was clear enough information for my mom to call the police, and they only came out to define that we didn’t have enough proof. Can you believe it? We didn’t have enough proof to prove that my disgusting neighbors shot my dog. It’s not right, my dog has the right to have his rights defended, he was hurt, and it was for no reason. We had proof that the neighbors did it, and the police officer just said, “You don’t have exactly enough proof, anybody could have done this.” Why would anybody want to hurt a poor innocent animal that had little wrong, he was in a caged in fence, and he was just out enjoying the day. It hurts to see animals hurt like that, and then to be told that you can’t get someone in trouble for hurting your animal makes it worse. This story is why I chose to do animal abuse, because poor innocent animals are neglected, and hurt for no reason, humans are quite cruel to pets of all sorts. I started off thinking about the posture, and how I wanted to show my social issue through art. I thought about making my figure hold a bat, but then I thought, ‘make his head turned, and put his hands out, make it look like he can’t take the animals seriously anymore.’ I then made his body look like I planned for it to look, and II started on my background. I thought, I should make a living room scene, make it pop out, and make it different than other things I’ve done. I found a lot of pictures of animals to show people how bad animals are poorly treated, and dogs are treated worse out of all of the animals in the world. I also put statistics on my project of how many animals are killed each year, because that number is rising increasingly so. I didn’t really know how to put a background in with my figure, so I thought that the living room idea would be cute. I also added color to it, I made a couch out of foam, and I made a fake plant out of leaves, and I found a little tiny kitten lying on a pillow. I thought that I needed an animal for my project after all it is about animal abuse, and it fit perfectly on the couch I made! When I was making my clay figure, my figure broke to pieces the first time, the second time it stayed together, but after I put it in the Kiln room, it broke both arms, and one leg. The rest of the body stayed together, but I think that I didn’t get it fired first, because my project didn’t turn out as great after I had glazed it. I think that if my clay didn’t break, than my figure would’ve been a great piece of art, and it would’ve been nice. I think that my background could’ve been better though, because I didn’t know how to put it together. I think that I did averagely better than I thought I would have at the beginning of this project. I think that this social issue project is much better to see, and understand. People can’t just hurt the pets, it’s like they’re hurting furry children who can’t speak. If I had a choice to do this project over, than I would take that opportunity up, and recreate my figure first. The reason why I would do so, is because my figure fell apart, and so, I’d like to keep my figure together in one whole piece.
 * ART.VA.II.HS.8 || **// I can explore social and global issues through the creative process. //** ||

vimage/figure.png critiqued picture: I think that this picture represents poverty, and homeless children, children are becoming less and less helped. I think that this picture means that the children are starving, poor, and not taken well cared for enough, and I think that it means that the children are dying more than the old people. I think that it is very artistic because it shows how well a child can be sad, and how well the child can be dressed.

I think that the artist wanted to spread the word that children are being treated like this around the world, they are being beaten, starved, neglected, and are becoming lonely. Society is making children look like they are victims and are being bullied everyday, and the issue is not being stopped. I think that the artist is showing the world how badly children are being treated, and they wanted the number to stop growing.

By the looks of the picture, it looks like the little kid was bullied, because the shirt has words on it, and the little kid looks extreamly depressed. The little kid looks like he or she might've been beaten, and don't quite understand why the world was treating him or her the way oit did or had treated him or her. I think that by the way the little kid is alone, he or she might've had no family to go home to, and no money to buy clothing, or eat anything.