This week's assignment was to create a piece using propaganda again. Our theme this week was to make one on something relating to school. My idea, which is pretty self-explanatory, is that it is tough to balance between academics and athletics. There is a a scale with the books weighing down the sports equipment to show how much stress schoolwork can add to a person's life. There is also a silhouette of a stressed boy in the background. Stay tuned for more art.

This weeks piece is a portfolio piece from a worth1000 contest. It was where you pick a celebrity or celebrities and do something funny to them. I chose to mess with Tom Brady and his wife Giselle. I made it Tom Braidy and Gazelle. I obviously gave Tom braided hair. And I gave Giselle gazelle horns. Stay tuned for more art next week.

This week we were assigned another artist review. My artist of choice this week is Mike Chan. He is from Hong Kong. I combined different styles from one of his pieces. It showed a rainbow colored beam holding a bottle. I replaced the colors with the colors of the U.S. flag and the bottle with an NFL football being a football fan. The background I made with a brush that I particularly liked, and I thought the light blue color was nice and subtle.

This week we were assigned to make another propaganda piece. We were supposed to base the style off of some old Chinese propaganda posters. I used a similar color style as the Chinese ones. We were supposed to pick a point our poster would make, and a target audience for the poster. Obviously my point is to use nice, kind acts instead of violence. The target audience is bullies. Stay tuned for more art.

This week we are supposed to make a piece showing propaganda. Given that my name is Sam, I thought it would be fun to put my face on Uncle Sam's poster. I'm still working on it currently. I still have to touch it up a little bit and decide what I want the slogan to be. Stay tuned for more art.

My piece this week is my final football painting. I free hand painted the entire thing. I used the grass brush shape combined with many different colors of the mixer brush to make the football and the grass. Below is a piece I made for my metamorphosis piece.

As you can see the sun is reflecting down onto the water. My idea was to make the sun turn into the moon in the reflection on the water. Stay tuned for more art.

This week we have the option to make a piece on whatever we would like to. I know this looks like nothing because, right now, it basically is. I'm painting a football sitting on a football field. I will be using the mixer brush tool a lot and maybe add some textures to make the grass look more realistic. Stay tuned for more art.