i secretly love drawing and art. i see the vision in my head of what i want to create and i try and make it happen. more often than not it doesn't work out and i just leave it in the sketchbook so nobody can see it. but my grandma Alta (she was an amazing painter, extremely talented) told me more than once: "never throw away anything you paint or sketch, even if you hate it. keep practicing and learn from your mistakes. never, never, never label your artwork as trash." so that would be why i have portfolios overflowing with art and no where to put it all! this is a drawing i did of my uncle jeremy who passed away a year ago in november. i did it with black and white charcoal pencil on gray paper. a couple days after he died i knew i needed to draw a picture of him for my grandparents. finding time, however, was not so easy. in the end i decided to not take any classes in the summer and i just worked on the drawing a lot. i finished it in june and gave it to my grandparents as a surprise. the day i gave them the drawing was the very best day of summer:)
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