“Beautiful People”
Halie Smith
Faculty mentor: Melanie Mowinski
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
These two drawings are from a series of five, all in charcoal, and portray people who inspire me. These people aren’t famous or even well known in society: they have made mistakes and some have had bad reputations. However, I see that these people carry amazingly honorable traits that are hard to find in society. I have portrayed these people on a larger-than-life scale in charcoal to intensify the emotion of their poses. This decision also added a sense of physical challenge that added to my own personal connection to the drawings. I find that in my own art practice, I have to be just as physically invested as I am emotionally invested in order for a piece to reach its fullest potential.
Halie Smith is a senior at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She is an art major with a minor in psychology, and is planning on going to graduate school for a Master’s degree in fine art.
