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Written Statement

The title of the piece of this work is “Lolly Rage.” It is an observational drawing of a candy still life that addresses a social problem. I used a black crayon on a 24” by 16” piece of paper.
My still life is centered on the fact that I strongly dislike the fact that many people succumb to the disease of road rage while driving. I am showing how the road rage infected differs strongly from the normal drivers on the road. It started with a purple lollipop and a red gummy bear that is cutting off other gummy bears, all light colored, on life savers. There are broken pieces of life savers that mark the edges of the road, an upright lollipop that is a road sign and a green candy piece that is a mile marker. The life savers are still in the wrappers. I cannot get over the fact that no matter how strict we are about our laws, people will still cut other people off. This is why the road rage gummy is a different color than the other gummy bears and the other gummy bears are on the same candy while the red gummy bear is on a lollipop. I have often been a victim of this disease; my small car is often ignored by the other drivers of much larger vehicles. This irks me so much when some one drives in front of me, or another person that is trying to get where they need to go. I decided that this still life will be my answer to the plague of this disease.
My strengths lie with the middle gummy bear and the lollipop that it is sitting on. I spent more time on that gummy bear and lollipop than on the rest of the piece. The shadows on the lollipop make it pop out of the rest of the piece, and it looks like the candy it is supposed to. The shadows on the rest of the piece have a range of values, from the lightest light to the darkest dark. My greatest challenges are the proportions of the gummy bears to the other gummy bears and where they are positioned. I started my thumbnails with the correct proportions, and I tried to keep them correct as I started on my final. Soon, the shadows were biting into the extra space where they don’t belong, and the proportions were not as correct as I thought that they were. The shadows that were connected to the bears and the life savers made the whole piece dissolve into random values. The shadows started to get too dark, and it caused the rest of the piece to blend together. I have learned that crayon is not the easiest medium to use, for it has no eraser and it’s difficult to blend or to manage. It is also a very difficult medium to correctly mark all the shadows, for if it is used it too long; it suddenly causes most of the work to blend together.