Climate Change

" Our Earth is warming. Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5°F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6°F over the next hundred years. Small changes in the average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather. Over the past century, human activities have released large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The majority of greenhouse gases come from burning fossil fuels to produce energy, although deforestation, industrial processes, and some agricultural practices also emit gases into the atmosphere. "

For this project I wanted to capture  how the parts of the earth that were once full of water and trees, are now dry and have no green.  Some of the ideas I had were to draw the ice melting in the Artic and show how the climate is changing and its important for everyone to know.

By the end of my experimenting and sketching I decided on a piece where I was going to draw a tree with half dead, and half green and full of life. This was to represent how serious this is , considering we need trees to stay alive.  I think that im going to use some type of material for the green part of the trees to show its life, and texture and than a plain color for the other side symbolizing no life to it. I also think im going to add water and a nice sky to the green side or flowers and grass, than nothing but cracked land and soil on the other side.


Some intriguing art pieces that I came across while online were these:
I believe that they have a really strong image.

Paris Artist

The piece of artwork that I chose to show you that was inspired by the Paris attack on November, 13th, 2015 is this:

 

This specific piece of artwork is by " Steve Benson ". Steven Benson is actually Steven Reed Benson (born January 2, 1954 in Sacramento, California) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. editorial cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson is the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson.

The reason why I chose this piece of art, was because of the meaning that I feel it has behind it.

I think that this piece of work says a lot about the world, the countries and most importantly the Paris attack.

In the photo, it shows Paris across the lake being attacked, while the statue of liberty is stepping in to help. To me, this photo has a strong message that we need to all be in this together, and have each other backs when heartbreaking things like this happen. I believe that by all the countries coming together and taking care of each other we can make a difference. I think that by people seeing this photo they will also understand the message and realize that its important to stand with eachother in these types of situations and have respect and condolences for the people that were victimized in this trageic occurrence.