I made my art at home one day when I was bored by using a grater to grate pieces of old crayons onto the canvas. I then covered the canvas with baking paper so the crayon pieces wouldn’t move, and used a hairdryer to melt the crayons until I was happy with the end result. …
Acrylic on paper, A3 size. Will soon be framed. Completed as part of year 10 school assessment. Loki is a character in the Marvel cinematic universe. He has frost giant heritage, reflected by the colours in the background. I chose shades of green for Loki as it is his favourite colour.
I used a digital program to create this piece, I used ruffed brushes and techniques to convey emotion while also trying to keep certain features sharp. This piece took me several hours to do and it is to show the bittersweetness of growing old.
‘Hell’ (244cm x 119cm) – Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Recycled Plywood. Hell is a work by COPR* that explores concepts of capitalism, drugs, poverty, modern sexuality, mental illness, and poverty and how these things relate and do not relate by using humour, juxtaposition, relatable symbolism/references, colour, and texture in the Neo-Expressionist style. The work …
This is a A3 piece done with 12 coloured pencils. the objects in the picture are items that either helped me survive lock down or represent something that helped me survive. i spent 12 hours on this in 3 sittings since there wasn’t much else to do.
Aja Yoruba is a spirit goddess from mythology of the patron of the forest. She comes from West African culture where she cares for the forest and the animals within it, she also has immaculate healing abilities. I have paired her here with a leopard as leopards spirit animal is the healer of all deep …
This is my favorite picture because I love mermaids. I have drawn one of them at the Mangawhai Kindergarten and wanted to create an underwater world. I have learned that from my older sister Malina who teached me all about drawing. At the beginning, I drew the mermaids and sea creatures on paper and cut …
I love painting and drawing and have learned it from step-by-step books all by myself. This is a collection of my favorite drawings which I have put all together to this magical land. First, I printed the cardboard with some acrylic colours and recycled old muesli boxes for a castle. Then, I was drawing the …
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