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This project was a show your voice project where I had to pick a top that had a passion about. The topic I chose was suicide and self harm awareness. I knew I wanted to do something with that topic then it was just a matter of coming up with that to do for the project. I decided to do silhouette of people, one with a noose and one cutting themselves. I decided I wanted to add more on to it so I added a phone with the suicide hotline number on it. For the background I did something colorful and bright to make the silhouettes stand out more.

I did the background with watercolor spots of different colors. Then I made the phone. I started by just sketching out the shape of the phone. I painted the outer rim of the phone white and then filled in the center with sharpie. I used white gel pens to write over the sharpie and make the screen of the phone. After I made the phone I started on the silhouettes I made two different ones and I was going to add a silhouette of a bottle of pills but I couldn’t figure out how to do that. So I just did the ones with people in them.

I am very proud of this project because I think it portrays the message that I wanted it to very well and I really like how the bright colors in the background makes the black stand out a lot more. I think it was a really good idea for me to add the phone because otherwise I think it would have been much too plain.