Crayon summer in Provence by Alina
Alina is a junior at high school living in Texas. She was born in the Chinese province of Hunan and relocated to Texas in June 2020. Her parents provide her with a lot of encouragement when it comes to painting. Alina enjoys the feeling of comfort and quiet while she is painting. Her second painting is the one she submitted to our art show. The crayon drawing displays a wide sea of lavender flowers and is adorned with additional flowers of various hues. The picture is mainly in warm tonal and the feel of exotic is attractive.
This is actually Alina’s second painting. Her first painting was an imitation of The Starry Night by Van Gogh. “The second painting,” she says, “I just want to try different styles after [the first painting] because Van Gogh’s painting is just too good and I feel very depressed.” She was trying to explore her own style of drawing when she was creating it. Alina very much feels relaxed and chilled in doing a completely different style from her first painting. Her feeling is embodied in the colors and strokes of the painting which is such a lively summer in Provence. For Alina’s next painting, she plans to do detailed artwork to improve her painting skill. She commented on her second painting “an emotive but rough work in attention to details”. She hopes next time she could do better to paint both emotive and exquisite pictures.
Alina got to know Global Youth Philanthropy because she saw the information shared by her friend’s mother. She saw the introduction of our art show and wants to donate her artwork to a nursing home. She wants the artwork to bring sunlight and her best wishes there to the old. “I thought it is better to do something for the old than keeping the artwork by myself.” Alina says.
The art show program of Global Youth Philanthropy is aiming to encourage and support young artists to contribute to their communities and make better social impacts via art philanthropic projects. We are glad to see students like Alina are using their own strength and making their own effort to benefit the community.
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Reporter: Estella Jiang