By Anna Skinner
Hallie Kane has been drawing her whole life, and when she decided to submit an acrylic painting to the Herron School of Art and Design’s 2016 High School Junior Art Invitational, she was mostly experimenting with the medium.
When she won first place for her acrylic “Self-Portrait,” she said she was shocked.
“All the artwork there was really fantastic, so it was kind of a shocker,” Kane, a junior at Westfield High School, said. “This was my first actual, intense project with acrylics. It was a new experience for me, and it was really cool.”
For winning first place, Kane received a $2,000 scholarship to the Herron School of Art and Design and an $800 summer workshop to prepare her for college and help with building her portfolio.
But despite the scholarship, Kane said she plans on attending University of Toronto for art and creative writing.
“Self-Portrait” was on display until the end of last month, and Kane now has her work back in her own hands.
“It’s acrylic so the colors might fade if we hang it up, but we will look into a safe way to frame it and I will keep it,” she said.
Kane said her art teacher, Lindsay Frey, played an instrumental part in shaping her desire to draw and create art.
“She’s a really great teacher, and she understands values and stuff really well so I owe a lot of my success to her,” she said.
Kane said it took approximately one month to finish the acrylic, which she painted while completing other schoolwork at the same time.
“I didn’t have a whole lot of time to work on it because of homework, so I would paint while listening to books on tape for English class just so I could save as much time as I could,” she said.
