Scholastics #1

For my first scholastics assignment, I decided to choose the category "One Earth." I decided to do this category because I had known that I wanted to use watercolor for my material and I thought that I could create water and an ocean animal with plastic around it. So I created a sea turtle surrounded by plastic.

The materials used for this project were pencil, and watercolor on watercolor paper. To start off this project, I sketched out the turtle and the plastic before hand. Once I was done, I began using blue watercolor to create the ocean. My ideas are visually evident in this because as you can see there is an innocent turtle swimming in the ocean as plastic soda rings choke it, while swimming into even more plastic. I decided to draw a turtle because I like turtles and I felt my drawing would look better and it most commonly happens to turtles.

Overall, I am proud of the way that my project turned out, and felt that I had spent a lot of time on it. However, watercolor is not a material I use a lot so it doesn't flow and look as smooth as I wanted but it will only take practice.