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The upper bodies of two little boys, about four years old, standing right next to each other laughing completely fills the frame of this acrylic painting. The boy on the left has dark brown hair with stark highlights and his face is tilted towards his left while he wears a vibrant red jacket with a black stripe going along both sleeves and has his right hand half raised in an L shape. The boy to the right looks down and slightly towards his left while wearing a loose white sweatshirt and seems to be standing slightly behind his friend. There is a sharp light being cast onto the both of them, like the flash of a camera, that illuminates the lightest wrinkles of their clothes and skin and contrasts the darkest parts of their shadows and hair. Each brush stroke varies in size and shape and is clearly visible in a way that simplifies every light and shadow and creates an impressionistic style.

You Were a Child

Samridhi Sharma

Acrylic on Canvas

Undergraduate
This painting was initially created as a gift for my brothers 24th birthday, but I went through the process intending to explore how I can visually express the passage of time and the fleeting moment of a memory. Inspired by the style of Mark Tennant's oil paintings, I recreated the reference photo of my brother and his friends with more impressionistic and simplified brush strokes. I think that these small marks of abstraction give room for the viewer to observe the painting as if recollecting a part of their own memory.