Corrin Harrison has enjoyed art since a young age. That passion has led her to continue to develop her talent and even got a piece of her art in an exhibit at Century II.
Corrin, who lives in El Dorado and is going to be a fifth grader at Towanda Elementary, created a picture of a bear in the art workshop she participated in at Monart Art School in Wichita.
Those students now have some of their work on display at Foyer Hall in Century II through the end of the month.
“I like to doodle a lot,” Corrin said as she flipped through a stack of drawings that ranged back to when she was 5 years old.
Her art includes watercolor, rice paper and ink, woodblock prints, chalk pastel, Indian ink, art markers and colored pencil.
“I like chalk pastel a lot,” she said.
Her subject matter is as varied as her media, including several animals, boats and more.
“I love animals, so most are probably animals,” she said.
She gets her inspiration from pictures and things around her.
“I just look at some pictures and imagine,” she said. “I make it my own and kind of unique.”
Her mother, Sarah, said Corrin has always carried paper and pencil around with her.
She got started in art when her aunt won art lessons from the Monart Art School and gave them to Corrin.
She was 5 at the time.
Her parents, Todd and Sarah Harrison, continued to give her lessons for Christmas and also enrolled her in summer workshops.
She has learned a lot from these lessons.
“I enjoy kind of doing my own thing and making mine different from all the others,” she said. “I like mixing colors to make my own.”
She said she learned with every picture.
The latest workshop she attended focused on oriental art, and she even learned to write some oriental letters. They also learn the history behind the art.
Corrin is excited to have her art in the exhibit.
“I was really happy because everyone could see my work and how hard I tried on it,” she said.
“I want people to notice my drawings and I want to be a really good drawer when I grow up.”
“All of her friends just know that she is an artist,” Sarah added.
The exhibit is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
