Grade: 12
Materials: Gouache
Dimensions: 12 x 18 inches
Description: The day before I started this piece I had went to the zoo. Drawing many different animals to study them from the neck and above was fun. I had drawn this giraffe in my sketchbook, I remember she kept looking back at everyone once she was done munching on her meal. I had then painted her in gouache without color because they look neater. I had then looked back at how she was doing, Samburu had passed away a month since the last time I visited her.
Artist Statement: With hundreds of hours in my room, I decided to start getting back into an old hobby. A lot of my pieces show what my state of mind was like at the time. I would spend my nights drawing and painting. Which was when I would work my best. I recognized I don’t really have a pattern or certain style I stick with. It always just flows out of the tip of my fingers, I just can’t stop my arm from drawing once I get into it. I spent my time during this pandemic to go through studies of gouache, Posca markers, and pens. They have helped me explore color. Most of my pieces are unfinished. But, I like them that way. I have this fear of messing up my art by adding color to them. It kind of reflects how I’m scared of accepting the happiness I have been gaining lately. It is hard to accept it when all you have known was the opposite. I feel like art has really been helping me cope and understand my emotions more. I feel like I have found a way to finally speak up without actually speaking.
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