Maliya Edwards

Art 2

My Artist Statement

The reason I did this project because I really like painting and i thought it would be interesting to do this project. It was fun to mix the acrylic paint to see what the colors make. The design i created for this project was a sea shell. A sea shell with a sea like background was my original vision for this project. My  sea shell came out the way i wanted it to be the only thing that didn't come out so good was the coloring i choosed for the seashell. The three colors I decided to use for this project is dark blue which I had mixed with an acrylic black. I used a yellow orange color that made a light orange color that was the color I used for the seashell, and it was another darkish color I mixed with the blue to add into the background just to darken it.

What my work communicates is a sea shell with a dark blue background. It would make the viewer think of the beach because that's where you would find a lot of sea shells. I think what I achieved best through the creation is i made it look like the design i wanted to look like. I also achieved mixing my colors very well and picking out my colors good. This relates to my last art work because every time I do an art piece I challenge myself to something new.

The process I went through to create this project was simple steps. First I had to figure out what I wanted my design to be for my panting. Next i had to decide the 3 colors I wanted to use and rather i wanted to be regular or acrylic paint. Then I had to sketch my project, after i was finished sketching my project I then used some kind of printing paper to transfer that design onto a canvas. After that step I then mixed made a color graph that showed me what colors to mix and what the colors came out as. Once I was finished that I then made the 3 colors that I needed for this project and started to paint my design.  Here is the link I got my design from in case anyone was interesting. https://www.google.com/search?q=seashell&rlz=1CADEAA_enUS713US714&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil0dP05PfSAhUC1mMKHfgFBTcQ_AUIBigB&biw=1366&bih=654#tbm=isch&q=easy+seashell+drawing &*&imgrc=puILndU1yw-yRM:

My artwork is a reflection of life because looking at this picture I think it would remind a lot of people of the beach. The beach is known as a happy place and where a lot of people have a good time at and it is considered as relaxation. It’s very important to keep a certain technique because if you don't or do something wrong that is not apart of the process it could mess the project. That's why it is very important to follow all steps of the project and it teaches us along the way how to follow steps in life to be careful and take our time.  

Maliya Edwards

1/16/17

Ms.I

Benchmark

You ever wonder what could affect the amount of money you make in a year? You ever wonder why you make the amount of money you do and what's stopping you from making more? There are many answers and variables that affect your annual money a year. Today we are focusing on the amount of children and the amount of people in a family effect has on the amount of money made each year. All which support the idea of the less amount of family members and children can lead you to make more money.

In the early 1800s, Ghana were having nearly 7 kids per woman. The family size was an average of 9. In the 1800s Ghana average 696 a year. Now back in the 1800s there weren't a lot of jobs and there wasn't a lot of good paying jobs. Seen below As we get further into the future, in the 1900s Ghana average family size was 8 and the average amount of children were 6. At this time the average amount of money made a year was 725. During the 1800s Ghana were going through diseases. It lowered the amount of the population. It may not show in the average size family but a lot of people died due to diseases. As we get into the 2000s, Ghana average family size went down to 6 per family and roughly about 4 to 5 children a family. At this time people in Ghana were making up to 2,270 a year. Seen belowAs better jobs and vaccines came out for these diseases. As we go into the year 2015, the average family size went down to 5 and the average children per woman went down to 3 roughly 4 kids and average an amount of 4,100 a year. From the 1800s Ghana family size was 9 and average children in the family were 7, now in 2015 the average family size is 5 and children within the family is 3. Seen below

The next country we are looking at is Keyna. In the 1800s Kenya family size was 9 and average children to a family was 7. Again around this time there wasn't a lot of jobs anywhere let alone jobs that paid a good amount of money. People in kenya in the 1800s made roughly 854 a year. Seen below Compared to ghana the family and children size were about the same, although Kenya made more money a year than Ghana. As we get closer to the 1900s Kenya was another country to deal with diseases and deaths throughout the years. In 1900s Kenya family size was still roughly around 9 and children per family was still hovering around 7. The money per year did go up to 1,170 a year. At this time people in Kenya were all at work. Kids started work a very early age to support their families. As deaths started to go up, more education and better jobs were being built. In the 2000s Kenya family size was down to 7 and babies per woman down to 5. The average salary a year has also gone up to 2,140 as seen below Kenya economy started to get better and were offering better paying jobs to the people. Seen below In 2015 Kenya family size went down to 6 per family and 4 children per woman. They were also making 2,900 a year as seen below As the year went on Kenya people had less children and were making more money.

As we move along we take a look at the United States. In the 1800s there was 7 children to a family and average family size was 9. United States was making 2,130 a year. Seen below As we get to the 1900s, we know United States was going through slavery and wars. This made the country lose a lot of people to death and there wasn't many jobs. Most jobs were war or being a slave. In the 1900s the United States the family size plumbed down to the size of 5 to a family and roughly 4 kids to a woman. United states also made 6,820 a year. That was a big jump from 1800 to 1900. As we get closer to the 2000s, United States have gotten their freedom, have rebuild and structure the country and got better jobs. The family size went down again to 4 a family and 2 children to a woman in 2000s. They also made roughly 46,000 a year. Seen below In 2015 the family size and children to a woman and still the same but with the country advancing in technology it made nearly 53,400 a year. Seen below United States has and still known for the richest country in the world.

The last country we are going to look at is China. To start off China made 985 a year with a family size of 7 and children size a 5 in 1800s. Seen below In the 1900s diseases also spread through China wiped out most of its country. China family and children size were still the same trying to refill its population again. They made 894 a year, less than what they made in the 1800s. In 2000s China made roughly 3,680 a year. The children to a woa went down to 2 and family size to 4. The family size dropped very big because China passed a law saying women couldn't have more than 2 babies. Seen below As we get to 2015 the average family size was 3 and the average kid to a woman was a 1 and they also made up to 13,400 a year seen below.

While doing this paper I realize the more kids people had the less time they spent working which mean the less money they made a year. With children you have to spend so much time taking care of them while they are young which meant you couldn't always go to work. In a lot of cases, people in these countries lost their jobs when they had a big family because they miss work too much. All in all, i do believe the less children you have the more money you will make.

The Sources I used was from the YouTube video from class https://youtu.be/N-x7eHuUhNM and  https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.com/2016/01/03/how-chinas-pregnancy-police-brutally-enforced-the-one-child-policy/amp/

For my project I did a Linoleum cut this was my first time doing this project and I will admit it was very complicated to do but it was a fun project to do. I decided to create this project because it seem like it would be interesting and i honestly wanted to see if i could pull it off.  I also wanted to see if i would be able to curve it correctly. My overall vision of the work was to make my print look like it was a turtle in swimming in the water. That’s what i would have liked to communicate to the viewers also.

I don't think i did a good job trying to communicate that to the viewers because along the way i made a couple of permanent mistakes. In my opinion the only thing that the viewers might see is the water thats behind the turtle and a half turtle. I did a bad job the head of the turtle and the shell that was the most complicated part of the drawing the print. I feel like I did a good job doing the drawing the print in pencil. Although i made a lot of mistakes on the project I think the thing i achieved the best was actually still finishing the project despite all the mistakes and it still looked a little close to the picture i was trying to create. That's how my previous work is also, even if i make a couple mistakes designing the project I still finish my project and it always comes out looking close to the design i based my project off of.

The process I had to go through to create this project is first I had to draw my design on a my print on a white piece of paper first to show how i would like my print to look. Second I had to copy my print onto the linoleum cut with a black sharpie. Next I had to use cutting tools to carve  out the design. Then I had to use the printing ink and the rolling tools to roll the ink on the linoleum cut. Lastly i put the linoleum cut on a white piece of paper so that it could print and I was finish.