Matilda
Age: 10
Title: Not Myself
Medium: Acrylic Paint and Coloured Pencil
My Inspiration: “My inspiration was “The Art of Saying Nothing” by Amanda Immurs; I liked the bear – I thought the bear was interesting and I didn’t want to do something too cartoony, but I’m not as strong with realism and I thought – I wanted to do something different with an animal. I wanted to feel like you were looking at yourself and decide that you’re not yourself; if you’re ever sad or angry, you might look at yourself and wonder why you’re not yourself right now. I wanted to look at it in a different way – kind of like the feeling you get when you’re pretending.”
My Favourite Part of Creating: “I like when you’ve put in all of the effort, and you step back, and you look at it, and you think, “I did that,” and it’s really satisfying. I get inspiration from listening to other people talk about art and think what’s something I could do, but in a different way.”
Matilda
Age: 10
Title: Not Myself
Medium: Acrylic Paint and Coloured Pencil
My Inspiration: “My inspiration was “The Art of Saying Nothing” by Amanda Immurs; I liked the bear – I thought the bear was interesting and I didn’t want to do something too cartoony, but I’m not as strong with realism and I thought – I wanted to do something different with an animal. I wanted to feel like you were looking at yourself and decide that you’re not yourself; if you’re ever sad or angry, you might look at yourself and wonder why you’re not yourself right now. I wanted to look at it in a different way – kind of like the feeling you get when you’re pretending.”
My Favourite Part of Creating: “I like when you’ve put in all of the effort, and you step back, and you look at it, and you think, “I did that,” and it’s really satisfying. I get inspiration from listening to other people talk about art and think what’s something I could do, but in a different way.”
