colored hands painting for eng
There are plenty of students that want to finish school and get good jobs. But some teachers have this impression that students don’t care and they’re gonna drop out or not pursue anything else in life. They have these negative feelings about some students. School has shown me that many teachers aren’t really trying to help you. They just need you to pass their class so they don’t look bad. You just need to do what you have to do even if you have to teach it to yourself because your teachers aren’t doing their jobs properly. I know that there are teachers that do want to help kids mentally grow and want to see them succeed. But there’s teachers that tell kids that there will be nothing in life, that they’re going to fail and without school you have nothing in life. Some teachers don’t show you how to do it, they do it for you and expect you to know how to do it from that one way. Or they explain how to do it one way and when you don’t understand it’s your fault for not understanding what they taught instead of them changing the way they explained it. Some teachers think that students don’t want to learn or move on and pursue different things in life. But no one’s intentions are to fail in life, people fail and some stay down but many get back up. Telling students or people in general that they are never going to amount to anything because they failed one test isn’t going to make them want to grow in their education. Some people are able to take words that break them down and bring themselves up but many people are not built that way. One insult and they just shatter and they stay down and only keep that negative mindset.
Artist Statement
At first I wanted to do a horror story but I realized how hard it would be to even make a cliche. So I went with something else that would be a challenge so I did a painting. Hands are really hard to draw especially if you’re trying to draw expressions in them. Trying to do different positions for hands to point in one direction was surprisingly time consuming, because they all have to point to one area and not look too similar in the pose they’re doing. You have all these hands reaching out going towards the same thing, they are racing for the same goals. The goal was to show that everyone has things that they want to achieve and move forward and up in their lives. No one wants to fail on purpose and not do anything in life intentionally. Improving yourself in education could help you get better job opportunities. I did a painting because I thought I would be able to portray that people are all aiming and going in one direction to a similar goal of improving themselves through education or in life in general. I used charcoal sticks for the black and gray hand, pastel sticks for the red, pink, green and purple hand, and acrylic for the blue hand and background.
