Donate Life

For my donate life design I painted a person on a boat named the S.S. Organ And Tissue Donation throwing a person in the water a rope to help them out of the water with the caption”get onboard”. I used watercolor for the water, boat, and sky. For all the smaller details and writing I used a sharpie. I used color, line, and shape to create this painting.

I used some informal balance because the boat is on one side and there isn’t anything on the other edge of the picture. The “get onboard” slogan is centered over the ring. I kept adding more and more watercolor to the sea and sky which I think hurt the overall consistency of the brushstrokes. I also did all the writing last using the sharpie over the watercolor.

This artwork is meant to encourage people to become organ donors so they may one day, if they die, help another person with their organs. This relates to my life because I got my driver’s license in april and I was asked whether I wanted to be an organ donor or not. To improve my artwork I would probably try and make the ocean and sky seem more smooth. There are spots where you can see brushstrokes and the color is not consistent over the entire paper.