Diamond Mining Drawing

After doing the layering work from the diamond mining in Africa, this was the final image I came up with. I basically drew my form in ballpoint blue pen and then over laid the diamond, but extended all the lines within the diamond.

Materials: Pen and pencil on paper

Text

The text I found from those lines are where these words came from. I took the same words with the same lines and then adjusted them to the paper I was using. Just playing around with my options about where I want to to go with this work.

Layering: Diamond Mining Africa

 

I read about the diamond industry in Africa recently. I read that families are forced to work for the mining of diamonds due to poverty. And many make less than a dollar a day. Many of the people are children who are denied an education. These people are put into theses situations and a forced to adjust to their environments. 

Another layering work. I began with a map of Africa, layered over a diamond design, found my figures, and then  found my text. 

Render of Form

I found this form earlier in some of my line work and was wondering what it would look if I rendered the image. From that I over laid a piece of tracing paper and extended the lines of the figure out.

This bottom image is putting both the figure and the lines on the same level.

Materials: Paper, Pencil, tissue paper, tracing paper, ink

Hot Dog (in progress)

This is where I'm at thus far. It still has some editing that needs to be done but thats where I'm at right now. I've been thinking about going over it and putting in my figure images. The lines of the checkerboard are not as crisp as I would hope for, learned that frog's tape is the best tape to us.

Materials: Oil on canvas

Size: roughly 3'x4'

In Progress Painting

This is what I'm currently working on. You can't tell right now but open space in the center will be a hot dog. I'm currently playing with the idea of food and what value we put on food. I understand the answer to that is relative. So in that case, I'll be working primarily from my own perspective.

The other day I went out to lunch and go a burger with my boyfriend. I couldn't finish the meal, so I just threw away the leftover. Later I was thinking about it and how to me, it wasn't a big deal to through the leftovers out, but to someone else in the world its a huge deal.

I've been thinking about how it is easier not to notice an issue when we don't see it. A girl in one of my classes put it as "out of sight, out of mind." Which I find rather true. It wasn't until I thought about the wastefulness of the situation that I felt bad and when I felt bad, I felt almost shameful.

I find it weird how people, such as myself, are able to waste so easily, yet there are people starving in this world. I find the whole thing completely ironic. So in this work I want to take both those elements and put them together in an image and see what happens.