My Sketches

1. The Flaming Trees - a picture about trees burning from forest fires which has become a common appearance in certain parts of the world. The world is becoming to hot and literally causing trees to burst into flames. 

• Black - represents trees (blown into shape using a straw)
• Red, orange and yellow - represents fire (flicked onto paper using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - lines, shape, volume, value, texture and colour are present. 
• Principles - unity, repetition, focal point, emphasis, rhythm are present.

The Flaming Trees

2. The Streaks of the Sun - a picture about the beams of the sun. Shows how it burns bright at the origins and then fades towards the end indicating death.

• Red, orange and yellow - represents the sun beams (streaked across canvas using a paint brush)
• Black - represents its dying (streaked across canvas using a paint brush on top of other colours to show more emphasis)
• Elements - lines, shape, texture, colour, space, value are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition,  focal point, emphasis, rhythm are present.

The Streaks of the Sun

3. The Circle of Life - a picture about the life and death of birds. Shown through the birds perched on the trees surrounded by life, then birds lying at the bottom surrounded by soil.

• Black - represents trees (drawn as lines using a paint brush), represents birds (drawn as circles on trees using a paint brush)
• Shades of greens - represents leaves and life (flicked onto canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Shades of browns - represents dirt, ground, soil (flicked onto canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Yellow - represents beaks on the birds (drawn using a paint brush)
• Elements - lines, shape, space, texture, colour, value are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, rhythm are present.

The Circle of Life

4. The Shaded Sun Beams - a picture about the sun. Shows how the sun cannot be seen clearly due to air pollution which is shading the sun rays. 

• Red, orange, and yellow - represents the sun (drawn using a paint brush in circles with yellow being the inner most circle and red the outer)
• Black - represents the air pollution that is clouding the sun (flicked onto canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition. focal point, emphasis are present.

The Shaded Sun Beams

5. The Flame of a Tree - a picture about the burning desire to live of a tree. The flame within the tree is burning with such passion that it wants to live, and not be cut down or burnt alive.

• Black - represent the tree (drawn using a marker pen)
• Red - represents outline of flames (drawn using a marker pen)
• Red, orange and yellow - represents the burning flame of the tree (coloured using colour pencils, yellow on the innermost side and red on the outer side)
• Elements - lines, shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - repetition, focal point, emphasis are present.

The Flame of a Tree

6. The Glittering Night Sky - a picture showing the stars up in the night sky. Shows the beauty of stars on a clear sky which is a very rare sight in most places. 

• Black - represents the night sky (drawn using a paint brush across the entire canvas)
• White - represents the stars (flicked onto canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - lines, shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - repetition, unity, rhythm are present.

The Glittering Night Sky

7. The Cycle of a Tree - a picture showing the life cycle of a tree. It shows how a tree undergoes birth, life and ends with death, meaning that no matter what, everything dies in the end and that is a beautiful thing. 

• Black - represents tree (drawn using a paint brush)
• Shades of green - represents the birth and life of the tree (flicked onto canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Red, orange and yellow - represents the death of the tree (flicked onto canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - lines, shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, focal point, emphasis, rhythm are present.

The Cycle of a Tree

8. Our Morning Sky - a picture to show the morning sky seen from space. It shows the brightness of our sky and how powerful the sunshine is. 

• Blue and green - represents the earth (drawn using a paint brush)
• Red, orange and yellow - represents the sun rays (flicked onto canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, focal point, emphasis, rhythm are present.

Our Morning Sky

9. The Streaks of the Ocean - a picture that shows about the flow of the ocean. It shows the ocean flow, how it’s strong and breaks towards the end, because of dirt and pollution.

• Shades of blue and white - represents water (streaked across canvas using a paint brush)
• Black - represents dirt and pollution (streaked across canvas using a paint brush on top of other colours to show more emphasis)
• Elements - lines, shape, texture, colour, space, value are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition,  focal point, emphasis, rhythm are present.

The Streaks of the Ocean

10. The Life and Death of Plants - a picture to show the growth of a plant. How it is born and lives and dies in the end.

• Brown - represents the living trees (blown into shape using a straw)
• Black - represents the dead trees (drawn using a paint brush)
• Shades of green - represents the life, leaves of trees (blown into shape using a straw)
• Elements - lines, shape, space, colour, texture are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, rhythm are present.

The Life and Death of Plants

11. The Disappearing Act of Ice Caps - a picture that shows the ice caps melting due to global warming which is causing the water levels to rise as well as causing more pollution.

• White - represents the ice caps (drawn using a paint brush)
• Darker blue - represents the water (drawn using a paint brush)
• Lighter blue - represents the sky (drawn using a paint brush)
• Black - represents pollution in the water (flicked across canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Red, orange and yellow - represents global warming in the sky which is causing the ice caps to melt (flicked across canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, focal point, emphasis, rhythm are present.

The Disappearing Act of Ice Caps

12. The Oils of Water - a picture that shows the spilling of oil into the ocean which causes water pollution. 

• Shades of blue - represent the ocean (drawn using a paint brush across entire canvas with the darker shades on top and lighter shades at the bottom)
• Brown and yellow - represents the oil spillage (flicked across canvas using a paint brush and toothpick as well as blown using a straw) 
• Elements - value, texture, colour, space are present.
• Principles - repetition, unity, rhythm are present.

The Oils of Water

13. The Greyish Clouds of Death - a picture to show the clouds in the sky being shading by air pollution to the point that the clouds seem like death cause it can cause acid rain.

• White - represents the cloud (drawn using a paint brush being pressed down repetitively in to shapes)
• Dark blue - represents outline of clouds (drawn using a paint brush being pressed down repetitively in to shapes)
• Light blue - represent sky (drawn using a paint brush across entire canvas with shades of white blended in)
• Black and grey - represents the air pollution that is causing the clouds to be clouds of death (flicked across canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - line, shape, value, texture, space, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, rhythm, focal point, emphasis are present.

The Greyish Clouds of Death

14. The Dying Life of the Ocean - a picture that shows the fishes in the ocean dying slowly due to water pollution.

• Shades of blue and white - represents the ocean (drawn using a paint brush across entire canvas with the lighter shades on top and darker shades at the bottom)
• Black - represents the fish (shapes drawn using a paint brush)
• Black and grey - represents the water pollution (flicked across entire canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - line, shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, rhythm are present.

The Dying Life of the Ocean

15. The Morning Sky vs The Night Sky - a picture that shows the morning sky shining with sun rays versus the night sky reflected in water. 

• Red - represent the morning sky (drawn using a paint brush)
• Orange and yellow - represents the sun rays (flicked across the canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Blue - represents water and the night sky reflected on it (drawn using a paint brush with shades of white blended on top of it)
• Black - represents the night (flicked across the canvas using a paint brush and toothpick plus the middle star drawn using a paint brush)
• Elements - line, shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, rhythm, focal point, emphasis are present.

The Morning Sky vs The Night Sky

16. The Screams of Trees - a picture that shows a tree being burned but the flames give the impression of screams. This means that the trees are screaming for the burning to stop.

• Black - represents dead tree (drawn using a marker pen by streaking it up and down to form shapes)
• Dark orange, light orange, red, pink and yellow - represents the flames (drawn using marker pen by streaking it up and down to form short loop shapes, alternated to show variation of colour)
• Green - represents leaves falling (drawn using a marker pen, downward motion from the ends of the branches to indicate leaves falling)
• Elements - lines, shape, space, value, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, rhythm, focal point, emphasis are present.

The Screams of Trees

17. Leaves and Water - a picture to show the life of trees as well as the life of the roots getting water from the ground. 

• Black - represents the trees (blown into shape using a straw)
• Shades of green - represents the leaves and life of trees (flicked across canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Shades of blue - represents the water used by trees to grow (flicked across canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - lines, shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, rhythm, focal point, emphasis are present.

Leaves and Water

18. The Smiling Moon - a picture to show a smiling moon in the night sky with the stars shining brightly. It’s to show that the moon is happy with where it is and loves being where it is.

• Black - represent the night sky (drawn using a paint brush across the entire canvas)
• Grey - represents the craters on the surface of the moon in the shape of a smiling face (drawn using a paint brush)
• White - represents the moon (drawn using a paint brush), represents the stars shining (flicked across canvas using a paint brush and toothpick)
• Elements - line, shape, space, value, texture, colour are present.
• Principles - unity, repetition, focal point, emphasis, rhythm are present.  

The Smiling Moon