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Speed Painting video here
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This is part of my coursework for my Art GCSE which leads up to a large canvas painting I've done which is similar to this with angle adjustments. I chose war as the topic, as I thought I'd try and draw something a little more profound than the natural forms topic we were given, which is pretty much all I drew in my last unit. DX I managed to find a loophole and use it as an excuse to paint wolves in my final piece (cos wolves are natural forms, right?) but for half a year it was flowers, pinecones, leaves...more flowers...

So yeah! War. Bit risky, but I thought I'd give it a go. I was particularly inspired during the time I've been doing this by the graphic novel Maus by Art Speigelman , whom I could sing praises to for many, many more paragraphs. I quite liked anthropomorphism it used and how it was satirical of dehumanization using it , so I decided to incorporate some of that in my final piece. This is a study for the large canvas painting I've nearly finished working on, which I will eventually put up on DA.

The Cat and Dog both represent two countries or states in conflct, and the individual soldiers who are tools in the war. They have both been taught that the opposite side is evil, the enemy, monsters, even animals. THeir forms have been twisted out of proportion into savage versions of each other, and this is what the soldiers are led to believe. The beasts in the thought bubbles are also symbolic of the monsters that the soldiers could become once desensitized to killing the opposition. The soldiers are both animals, both of a different species, but they are similar to each other in their human-like anatomy and characteristics. (anthropomorphic)

Description
Speed Painting video here
[link]

This is part of my coursework for my Art GCSE which leads up to a large canvas painting I've done which is similar to this with angle adjustments. I chose war as the topic, as I thought I'd try and draw something a little more profound than the natural forms topic we were given, which is pretty much all I drew in my last unit. DX I managed to find a loophole and use it as an excuse to paint wolves in my final piece (cos wolves are natural forms, right?) but for half a year it was flowers, pinecones, leaves...more flowers...

So yeah! War. Bit risky, but I thought I'd give it a go. I was particularly inspired during the time I've been doing this by the graphic novel Maus by Art Speigelman , whom I could sing praises to for many, many more paragraphs. I quite liked anthropomorphism it used and how it was satirical of dehumanization using it , so I decided to incorporate some of that in my final piece. This is a study for the large canvas painting I've nearly finished working on, which I will eventually put up on DA.

The Cat and Dog both represent two countries or states in conflct, and the individual soldiers who are tools in the war. They have both been taught that the opposite side is evil, the enemy, monsters, even animals. THeir forms have been twisted out of proportion into savage versions of each other, and this is what the soldiers are led to believe. The beasts in the thought bubbles are also symbolic of the monsters that the soldiers could become once desensitized to killing the opposition. The soldiers are both animals, both of a different species, but they are similar to each other in their human-like anatomy and characteristics. (anthropomorphic)