viola! finished, finally!

so, here is my social commentary. i know, it's late. it's really hard for me to actually find time to set up a photoshoot with people and lighting when i'm so damn busy with school, my internship, yearbook, and work. anyway, it is finally finished!

i did my project on animal testing. i wrote a paper about it last year during my ap lang class and what i found out really bothered me so i wanted to express it with this. the amount of crazyness that goes on in an animal testing lab is amazing. it's disgusting and horrifying. for this, i actually went with my original idea for this. i took a mascara brush and dipped it in red paint to look like blood because some make-up is tested on animals. i then splatter painted my lovely bff, claire, with red paint to look like more blood too. i decided to do the selective coloring to help the red be emphasized. last, i erased the label on the original bottle and replaced it so people would understand that this is supposed to be about animal testing.

overall, i like this project. i really like the idea and it came out mostly like i pictured it. before i started doing this project i should have took into consideration how hard it would be to selective color a bunch of tiny blood splatters. this took me a good three hours, i even bought a mouse to make it easier, but it still didn't come out perfect. i want to find an easier way to do it... maybe i should print it out entirely black and white then somehow go over the paint splats by hand? i need to invest in a tablet...

 

p.s. thank you claire for modeling for me and taking off your necklace (: