Skeleton in Spring
Olivia S.
Traditional: color pencil, cherry blossom sequins, paper flowers, hot glue, paper
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This artwork took roughly 24 hours to finish. The most enjoyable part of the process was being able to come to my art school, sit down, and talk to my friends as I worked. On the more technical side, I also found it strangely satisfying to glue each cherry blossom sequin and paper flower onto the cherry tree at the front. There were many aspects of the piece that weren’t quite as enjoyable. For example, the process of painstakingly coloring in the water in which the skeleton and trees are submerged took an exorbitant amount of furiously layering and rendering with a cheap set of color pencils (the blisters on my hand and my fellow classmates can attest to that). Overall, what would’ve been a monotonous process was filled with encouragement and much-needed advice. I’d like to accredit my friends and teachers whom I wouldn’t have finished this piece without!
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It’s the ability to come up with new ideas and express it, like having a dream or a mere passing thought and being able to recount it and replicate it by painting on a canvas or sketching it out on a paper.