Isabelle

From previous trips to the Education Showcase, I personally enjoyed the oil pastels of the dancers other students had created. When I was giving the task of decided what figurative piece I wanted to choose, I decided to do a dancer. When searching, I looked at all the oil paint pieces of dancers and the one I chose drew my attention easily. It was a beautiful painting that I thought I would enjoy recreating.

While working on my piece I had trouble with the ruffles on the bottom of the dress. During the drawing process, I should have added all the shadows in the piece, so when I started to apply oil pastels it was difficult knowing where the shadows belonged. I wanted it to look like ruffles right away, but I was reassured (by the art teacher) that by adding and reading to it, it would eventually become the beautiful ruffles like the original.

Over all my artwork came out nicely. At first we had to draw the picture and I think that really helped with the body’s silhouette that came out proportional. I like how the arms color came out the same as the originals. Using the oil pastels came naturally to me and I really enjoyed it.