Level 1 Art Update Term 2

At the start of this year, my art theme was animal endangerment. I really struggled with finding ideas for this art theme so I decided to change mine. I'm focusing more on females and have changed my theme to how things have changed (olden days vs modern days).

For my first art theme, I came up with an idea to draw a turtle with the shell as a melting world. I added hexagons to the background to represent the shell of the turtle. I also made the hexagons red/orange to represent the sun melting the world because of climate change.

My second art theme I have completed a piece on my great aunty who was born in 1934. It was a younger photo of her and for her hair. I took inspiration from Sofia Minson's art and added it to mine. She has a very realistic looking person with a flat background with patterns to make the person stand out. Instead of adding the flat pattern into the background, I decided to add it into the hair and leave a white background. For her hair, I also added gold foil, so that there was a bit more dimension. I wanted to choose more warm colours because I think it added more contrast to the pencil drawing and not everything was dark. I'm thinking of doing one bored more olden day styled and the second bored more modern-day so I have also started another piece on a woman sitting on a stool. I like photo inspiration for this because I felt like the outfit she was wearing, was something that lots of people wore in the olden days. I changed the pattern of the dress a little because I didn't want there to be too many patterns so I made it more simple. Also to incorporate Sofia Minson into this art piece I have decided to draw her with a pencil and add a patterned background.

The second piece that I have started

Finished artwork of my great aunty

The pattern inspiration I added into my great aunties hair

Jessica Meth Paragraph

Jessica Meth Public Service Announcement

In the public service announcement, Jessica we see the harmful effects of drugs. This is seen when she was taken advantage of by her drug dealer. For example, her drug dealer raped her and abused her. This wouldn't have happened if she hadn't taken meth. This can also lead to negative consequences throughout the short film where she forces her brother to smoke meth with her. We see that her brother is young because of the way the director used the playground to show that, that's where he likes to hangout. The purpose of this is to show us how the negative effects don't just affect her but the people around her. Because of her mistakes other people have to deal with the consequences such as her brother. This also relates to Walk The Line because when Johnny Cash is taking drugs we see the negative effects it has with him and the people around him. Johnny was high on drugs and started to go crazy. The relationship between his wife and kids starts to go downhill, relating to the divorce of Johnny and Vivian.