Donate Life Design

Living On

9 x 14 inches

For this assignment I had to create a design that positively displayed the importance of organ and tissue donation. It had to have the phrase organ and tissue donation on it as well as a phrase that I came up with myself in relation to the design. For my design I created a skeleton hand holding a heart and a normal hand extending outwards towards the heart with a vine winding along the skeleton's arm and connecting it with the normal hand. The skeleton represents the person who has died passing on organs to a living person (the normal hand) who needs them. My saying is give someone the chance to grow and that stems from the idea of the vine in my painting.

I only used acrylic paint for this project. I work best with acrylic paint and since this painting was being entered in a competition I wanted it to look the best it could be.

I had several ideas going into this project. This was my original one and it was the one that I eventually settled on. I added the vine to the painting after I realized that it needed something to add more color and make it look a little more appealing and friendly. The flowers also serve the same purpose. Neither of those things were part of my original design. However, I think that they enhanced the painting if anything and I am extremely pleased with the final product.