My inspiration for this piece was from the painting Boschbrand (Forest Fire), created by Raden Saleh (1849). Raden Saleh was born in 1811 in Semarang, Central Java, and wanted to portray the representation of life and death, by using animals. Forest Fire is an immense composition showing animals being chased by flames and are at the edge of a precipice. This relentless and tragic tale of life and death is powerfully narrated through the vivid depiction of the animals and the dramatic use of light and dark on a monumental scale. What makes this piece much more interesting is that this is not a fantasy. Us humans are continuously destroying animal homes, causing global warming and other environmental issues. When we burn the trees, we may see a sprinkle amount of the animals fleeing, so this painting is more in depth and detailed than what we might interpret. In the painting the main focus is the animals and bulls fighting to get away from the flames. In the background we see a bright, vermillion glow that depicts a fire. We can also see a lot of intoxicating grey fumes. In my painting I encompassed the fire and eagle wing, along with the grey circles dancing in the fires which relates to smoke. In the background of the original painting we can see an eagle desperately trying to fly away so I encompassed the eagle wing as a big part of my painting. The rapidly spreading fire in my painting is covering up most of the space, indicating how much it can take up. I painted the fire to intentionally touch bits of the eagle wing and leaves in a wild, desperate way to show how savage it can truly be. The brown background represents the bark of the trees and the leftovers of nature. The number 1 states that Raden Saleh is recognized as the 1st Indonesian Modern Artist. The number 871 (the one being written in Chinese) is quite personal to me as this is the number of large forest fires in Odisha which is a state in India (also where my grandmother and grandfather lived for a period of time) in November 2022. This relates to the painting as they find common ground with the fires-the main threat-in the painting and personal link. As we can see in my painting the colour scheme is mostly warm, with green and greys blending in. The grey circles is to represent the smoke, as that correlates to the painting and I made the wing grey to show how withered and torn the feather is and is on the verge of death. The red, orange and yellow is associated for the fire. When one sees the colour red, they usually interpret it with a strong emotion such as anger and rage. In Raden Saleh's painting, we can see a lot of orange tones, including red and if you see carefully in the background, you can see yellow. I think that I got the proportion of the colour contrast quite well in comparison to Boschbrand. I first painted the background with a white varnish, so that I could add many layers and made the background brown. Then I started to add the shapes such as the rectangles using wooden blocks. I then did the drawings that would take up most of the space and are the main focuses such as the eagle wing, the bull horns and the leaves. After, I let it dry for some time before adding the smaller details such as the yellow and red dots. Then, I created the fire by first adding paint directly onto the canvas before creating that flame effect with the sponge. I let that dry then I added the grey circles and tidied the painting up a bit before I finally added the numbers. One challenge I faced was putting too many shapes such as triangles and circles near the wing and leaves which draws the focus away from the painting btu I fixed that in the last lesson. The most successful things I did was the colour contrast and the details of the wing, using many different shades of grey. This was successful as it adds more depth and isn't so flat. One thing I could have improved on was not making drawings such as the leaves, trees and bull horns so flat and solely one shade.