Renan S.

Renan is from Brazil and is a junior at Saddlebrook Preparatory School. Renan has improved over the course of this art class and has learned that patience is a prerequisite for carefully planned artwork.

"I chose Jim Morrisonâ€™s portrait because Iâ€™m a big fan of The Doors, I focused on making the contrast as perfect as possible, no artist inspired me only Jim Morrison. And it made me feel great because in my opinion itâ€™s the best looking piece of art

"The most challenging part I believe was to use different colors to make shades, or make something darker or lighter, because sometimes I ended up making it darker than I wanted. And also the fact that you have to spend hours just clicking the pen on the

"The most challenging thing on this painting was to get the observer to have the same feeling when he saw my painting as to when he saw Van Goghâ€™s painting. I wasnâ€™t trying to be as good as him obviously but just to understand the meaning of his work

"This one challenged me to come up with an idea that would convince children to stay away form drugs. I really liked this assignment not because of how it looks but more because of the meaning behind it and because of its purpose. Itâ€™s probably the most

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