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Capturing life with art

By Juliet Quinones, age 11 | July 1, 2014

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Juliet Quinones, who will attend Pin Oak Middle School, loves to draw, and her work was featured on a Condit Elementary field day T-shirt.

Hello. My name is Juliet Quinones, and my favorite hobby is drawing. I love to draw because at the end it looks real. I usually like to draw animals because I love animals. They are my favorite. I especially like to draw dogs or wolves. Sometimes I like to draw other things like people or objects or nature. I like to draw real-life things rather than cartoons because to me it doesn’t look good. I usually like to draw in ink, pen or pencil. The reason I don’t like to color my drawings anymore is because when I do it just looks different than before, and sometimes it just ruins the drawing.

I got my talent from my grandmother and my aunt who passed away. My grandmother lives in Mexico. She paints on canvas and paints fruit. My aunt could paint very nice pictures and made ceramic vases and chalices. For one of the plays at school I painted a giant picture of a pony. After the play I got to take it home. I won the Condit field day T-shirt drawing. My drawing is put on the shirt, and everybody in school wore it for field day. And since it was my last year at Condit I was so excited to be picked as this year’s artist.

Field day is an annual event where the entire school gets divided into the white team and the green team. Then all day we play different games and the team who wins the most wins. At my daycare my teacher, who has been there for 10 years, said when I was little she always loved my drawings and she still does today. Some people think it is shocking when they know I never took an art class. Whenever I am done with everything I have to do, I just love to draw. Drawing a real-life picture takes just two things: time and skill. I hope to do art for as long as I can.

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