An imaginative and ambitious Grade 10 student from Korah Collegiate has caught the province’s attention for her impressive artwork.
“I was super excited,” she says. “I didn’t know if I’d get in or not at first. There were a lot of pictures with really high skill levels, many of them from 18-year-olds who have been doing this since they were 12.”“We see a lot of conformity, especially with younger people,” she says. “I like to people-watch and look at their little habits. I found a lot of people will think less of someone immediately if they look or speak differently from them.
“I didn’t have a great understanding of facial structure, clothing or lighting going into this. Those were all things I wanted to make as dramatic and exaggerative as possible so I could get a better understanding of them through the piece.” “As I got older, I began taking it more seriously and actually paid more attention to what I was learning, and I think that’s when I started improving quickly.”Without her mom’s influence, the young artist doesn’t know where she’d be today.
“When I saw her piece, I was not surprised that she created something so amazing. I was captivated by the rich content that she was able to capture and convey in such a simple line drawing.”