Sustained Investigation #1

"Help Me Please"

9" x 5.5"

January 3rd, 2020

What I wanted to show in my work was the effect climate change has on the earth and I put in it a hour glass to show that the time doesn't last forever and that this is a pressing issue. This project relates to my life because it's something that I'm passionate about and something that I want to see changed.

For this project I used paint pens for the colors and most of the piece, and then felt tip pens to add detail and outline all the parts of the that I thought needed more contrast. I tried to stick to a warm and dark color theme on top and the bottom of the hour glass. I added the pink background because I hadn't used pink anywhere else and the outline of the hour glass is black and I thought that with I bring background it would make the actual message pop.

I first sketched out what I wanted to do and pulled some concepts from my friends work and added some ideas I had. I had finished it before but could tell it was missing something which is when I added the clouds in the pink and then added the shadows to show depth. I think my next steps could cutting out the project and pasting it on to a different piece of paper to make it look cleaner.