highlight	My second work for the exhibition is going to be quite different from the first of the child soldier, which was bold and
	children at war	strong. I saw this image of an Afghan boy in a newspaper. He was taking cover from a Taliban gunfight, waiting for it
	stages	to stop. His face looked so haunted, that I want to convey that in my picture. I decided to paint a softer tonal
	words by children	painting, using just burnt sienna and black paint, and to keep it quite soft apart from his eyes. This is an image that
		I return to later with my collage 20. With that I reverse the image , using tracing paper.
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		Firstly I rough out the triangular		I start putting a soldier in behind		Puting in a stone wall with blocks
		composition of the boy, using one		him, but decide I like it simple.		of text, and sitting him on a pile of
		corner, and leaving the rest empty		Less is often more..... so I mix up		text rubble. It remains haunted
		This makes him look very		three tones of burnt sienna, and		feeling. I like the hands and
		vulnerable and isolated, just the		paint them on.		feet unpainted, so I leave them.
		effect I wanted.
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