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For Claudia Cifolelli’s Senior Project, she provided service for the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya, Africa. This organization provides a safe haven for injured and orphaned elephants that have been victims of the illegal ivory poaching throughout Kenya. In order to help raise money to fund this organization, Claudia organized a silent auction containing art pieces related to wildlife made by students and alumni from Natomas Charter School and other local artists. The money she made went to the Medical needs of the Elephants in Kenya.
When Claudia asked me to participate in her senior project, i immediately said i would help her out. I took a look at the other pieces that she had already received and i was amazed. Klaude’s piece was by far the my favourite. I then got to brainstorming ideas on how I can implicate wildlife animals into my style of painting. I went through weeks of …show more content…

I would draw out the silhouettes of 4 Different animals and use different colors for each of the canvases. I then ran across another problem, what animals could I draw and what colors should I use to paint. I started to use the original sketches I had, a wolf and a deer, and started painting while also mixing together colors that i thought would catch the viewer's eye ; and because i was fairly low on paint, i had to use some of the paint from the painting of the wolf silhouette on the painting of the deer silhouette. After I did the two paintings, I knew it wasn’t finished. The two canvases I painted looked too lonely. I needed to paint at least two more but i was stuck, staring at an empty canvas that was waiting to be filled with colors. I started to sketch out an elephant, the main focus of this whole project, and started to paint with more vivid and brilliant colors that caught my eye while i was mixing paints. As I was painting the elephant I realized that elephants aren’t the only wild animal who is being poached for their horns. In the middle of

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