More Art, but like, Out Of Isolation P2

This week in art, I've been working on using watercolour paints to create basic shapes. I did this for a couple of days with Jess, using various colours like red, purple, green, blue, and yellow. 

These are a few of my first attempts. I really like some of these. More so than some of my newer attempts. I'm not the est at like shadows 

Here's some more watercolour stuff :p

I also attempted working with charcoal too.
I tried to recreate the black lives matter fist
I did the other week in charcoal but I didn't have
room for the flowers and knife so it's
just a fist with "human" on it.

Currently, America is a mess, which is kind of what my work has been about recently. People are mad, as they should e, so some statues have been destroyed. not going to lie, I found this decapitated Christopher Columbus really funny. So I drew it and actually don't hate how it turned out for once.
Um, anyway, screw that guy. Racists shouldn't get statues.

More Art, but like, Out Of Isolation

As a good start to what I'd like my portfolio to look like, in my own time I created a mixed media piece in support of the black lives matter movement in progress in America at the moment. 

This is it :)

The text you can see is actually a doc of different articles about innocent black victims who died to the hands of police brutality and stereotyping. More accurately victims murdered by people who stood free due to systematic racism. These victims include but are sadly not limited to - 

George Floyd -  was suffocated by a cop kneeling on his neck for over 8 minutes despite a lack of struggle and continuously saying "I can't breathe." He was in the custody of the cop due to being arrested on suspicion of a forged $20 note. The note was later reported to be real.

Trayvon Martin - shot by a neighbourhood watch member while walking home from a convenience store and holding a bag of skittles. He was labelled a 'suspicious individual' and unknowingly had the cops called on him. Despite the warning from 911 operator to not do anything, George Zimmerman shot and killed an innocent 17 year old. Trayvon Martin was 17. Zimmerman had a gun, Martin had skittles.

Breonna Taylor - Stormed in her own apartment and shot 8 times. A police squad entered her house to see if two men had been receiving packages of drugs there. They had a warrant that allowed them to enter without warning and not identify themselves as officers. They say that they only fired shots towards Taylor because her boyfriend shot at and wounded one of their officers (He was charged with the attempted murder of an officer after shooting them in the leg, a wound that would quickly heal. The charges were dropped later.) While aggressive, not a reason to fire at someone who is unarmed, consequently killing her. 

Ahmaud Arbery - He was shot while jogging. That's it. Two white men shot him because he was jogging. It was months before they were arrested.

These are just some of the numerous cases.

To support the movement, please (safely) protest if possible or even just check out some of these articles - 

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/support-the-black-lives-matter-movement

https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/help-black-lives-matter-protests-donate-organisations/

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-you-can-help-black-lives-matter-protesters-if-you-cant-attend-in-person/

https://www.gq.com/gallery/ways-to-support-black-lives-matter

Smexy Paragraphs About Meth (Sexxxy Paragraphs About The Harmful Effects of Drugs)

The harmful effects of drugs are shown within the Meth Project's PSA 'Jessica.' This is seen in the way the visual production has been set up. For instance, while the narrator is talking about Jessica being raped by her meth dealer, the scene is dark, reflecting the negative emotions and events shown and talked about. It slowly transitions to a scene where we're shown a dark, empty hallway. There's are bright light at the end of the hallway, almost representing the 'light at the end of the tunnel' or, more realistically, the hope she can fight her addiction. The hallway is very tight, it makes the viewer feel small. This was done to reflect the idea of being trapped both through her drug dealer and her addiction. The director did this to visually tell us what it's like to have an addiction like this. It makes us feel trapped and numerous other saturated shots, such as an unclean bathroom with a broken mirror, make us feel the discomfort and pain of addiction. This is very similar to how the director uses lighting in the first scene to show us that Jessica is quickly submerging her self in darkness. This is shown through the clip of who we can assume is Jessica cheerleading before we are shown a clip of an empty stadium shutting its light's down in staggered clusters.