Milly N.

Milly is from Australia and is a senior at Saddlebrook Preparatory School. She is a very talented artist who defines her style through extreme attention to detail. She is quite skillful with color selection in her paintings, but her greatest strength is in her realistic sketches.

This is Milly's first work in this class. She took a more creative approach to one-point perspective by creating a sense of perspective with the point in the center of the eye (with the individual's view) and the center of the face to create an illusion o

Milly took one of her own photographs (her main art form) of a street in Sydney and twisted the colors and perspectives to create a more abstract view.

"I chose this particular piece just out of randomness, but I really felt that you could see the backpack as something real. I just want an observer to see the shading and the 3D aspect of the bag, more of the technical aspects of the drawing then the emot

"The main aspect of the piece that I focused on in this pieces was shading and contrast and the way the shadow hit certain objects more then others, just trying to get every bit of detail on paper. The most challenging part of this assignment was interpre

" It was only half way through when I new exactly what I was painting. When creating this piece it just felt really easy and care free, something that I really enjoy, when work doesn't become work anymore. If anything what I want an observer to see is the

" Here you had a beautiful young girl stuck right in the middle of turmoil and hardship that not you or even I could fathom. Trying to get that balance was the most difficult part of this piece because it was more then just painting a young girl. If anyth

"I chose this particular assignment because it was a challenge and something I was willing to take on, it was tedious and long but I was satisfied with the end result. With this particular piece I would just like the observer to get as much of the movemen

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