Cambodia

What are we doing and why are we doing it? How do you feel about the assignment?

In art class we are doing a personal portrait for children located in rural areas like the Honduras. They are found in tough conditions with natural disasters and human trafficking. We are doing this to show the love of God to others and make the children happy. This is an impact to the children because it makes them feel seen and known, it brings them joy and happiness even when they are in tough conditions. I think that this will definitely be a challenge to do especially since I don't have too much skill in 2D drawing. But, I can't wait to see how it looks when I am finished.

Pencil

Colored pencil

Oil Pastel

Share your thoughts about the last four weeks of practice and the different media. What did you learn? Which medium will you choose and why?

These past 3 weeks were pretty tricky, the pencil drawing was easier to do that I thought so I am proud of it. The other two practice portraits were not so easy and I can't say I am very proud of them but I am glad that I tried. I learned that color theory is very hard to get right if you haven't done many practices or had much experience wth it, I plan on using pencil to draw my kid because that is what i feel most comfortable with doing.

This project makes me practice beauty creating because I am being challenged to make a portrait for this kid to make him happy. I am putting in the work to show his beauty and how I care about making this look good for him. It also makes me see Image reflecting because in this project I am taking my class time and took time out of my day to finish this project to give to this kid a beautiful picture of himself. I see how God made us and took the time to give us all of our beautiful features, and how focused he was on every part of us to make us unique.

Reflection on my portrait

This project was definitely a challenge and I am very proud of it because at the start it was a bit rough, but as I kept going and working to get all the features down, I got really proud of it because the last time I did any type of pencil drawing was in intro to art with my hand drawing. I think that it was very worth it to take my time and even bring it home to work on. I liked the challenge and I definitely learned a lot about shading and lines and precision. I really hope that Linet is happy when he sees this picture, I hope that he feels seen after receiving this portrait because I really did enjoy making this for him. If I could say anything to him I would say that Jesus loves him and that I've been praying over him him to feel the love of God. I also would say that he has very nice features, and that if I could I would make another portrait for him.

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