Organ and Tissue Donation

It's the Climb

7x10

This project was for a competition the competition had to create a piece of art according to a set of rules. I started this project by coming up with a slogan that included the phrase “Organ and Tissue Donation” this part was a challenge for me and I couldn’t think of what I wanted it to say. After thinking for a while I came up with two different ideas but I didn’t like either of them. I then decided to do the phrase “Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side it’s the climb” and I was going to do mountains and write the organ and tissue part going up the side of it. After I had done the mountains I realized I didn’t like the way my slogan would be so I decided to change it. This took awhile for me to think of something because it had to do with mountains since I already had made them. My final slogan idea was “ Another life is worth the climb of…”.

I used acrylic paint and canvas for this project. I started by making my border which had to be at least 1 inch all the way around. Then I started on the background. I mixed blue, red and white paint to make a purple I added more white to some of the paint so I could make it look more like strokes then just a plain flat looking sky. After the background I painted the mountains, they were gray with white snow on top. Up the side of the mountain I used a stencil to write “organ and tissue donation” I made a white box in the middle of the sky above the mountain to write the rest of the slogan.

I really like this project however I wish that there was more to it. I felt it was very plain and simple. I think I am most proud of my slogan because it kind of incorporates the whole thing as one and I was happy with the final one that I chose and it just felt right, unlike all the other ones that I had come up with. I enjoyed making this project especially because I really love painting with acrylic and I got to do that being able to choose my own supplies.