This is the first painting I have done in my figure skating series. I was surprised how much I enjoyed working with acrylic because I usually hate it and I plan to do more acrylic in the future.

This is my sketchbook cover so the goal of this was to use the black of the cover while incorporating the theme of our creative process. I chose to do a figure skater because it represents me since I am a figure skater (and this one of the main ways I express myself) and also figure skaters are one of my main subjects that I draw. I used the black through having it show through the white in the background and the pants which are black. (I may do a back cover later but I haven’t decided what to do with it yet).

I’m very pleased with how this turned out because normally I hate acrylic but I think since this was such a small scale I could use my normal tiny details without having to spend forever on it.