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Keon Smart

Just A School Picture

Medium(s): Paint, Pencil

In my painting, I feel like I had to do a picture of myself because I want an actual visual of what I look like and see what I look like with a few levels of values. When I first started my drawing, I was copying the outlines of myself and it did not look right in the beginning. It looked like a bunch of scribble scrabble placed on a grid pattern. But, after I started painting and filling in the outlines with my colors, it all came together. I would say the most struggling part of the work was when I had to trace line for line and sometimes I got lost. But fortunately, my teacher helped me out with a little cheat sheet where we cut out matching squares of the grid and was able to trace my outlines better by looking at one specific section at a time. Overall, I believe this was a great painting I did for the first time being in this class.

Keon Smart

Rise Up!

Medium(s): Color paper, marker

In this project, we had to choose a theme that would represent Social Injustice. I wanted to pick something that is happening in today’s world, so I choose to present artwork on the fight for equal rights/equality. The reason why I picked this topic is that I believe ever since the beginning of Covid-19, there has been way too much killing of blacks because of their race. I mean hundreds of people and innocent black people are being killed based on their color and it is not justice at all. For instance, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, and many more. In this project, I wanted to show how everyone is equal and we should show equality to all around us no matter the race or gender. We are the United States of America, we supposed to be ONE united nation, not multiple separate nations. By having everyone fight for equality between all, this world would become a better place to live in, better yet, a more healthier world.