Aurélie's portrait

- Hi Aurélie!

- Hi!

- Thank you for granting me this interview for this big magazine everybody knows.

- My pleasure because I love this big magazine that everybody knows!

- Can you give me some details about your personality?

- Yes of course, I think I am courageous, honest, a good friend, humorous, imagi…

- Wow! I can hope that you are not the most modest girl in the world…

- What does that mean?

- No I just… Forget it. So, I can read on my cards that you like drawing and painting, would you like to be an artist in the future?

- I don’t know… I don’t think I have so much talent.

- Hey, you’re making progress!

- What about?

- Nothing… So, you don’t want to be a painter but do you play an instrument?

- I played the violin a little when I was very young but it wasn’t my passion. Oh, I wanted to tell you that there aren’t my favourite flowers in my lodge so I am stressed out, can you please bring them?

- Ok but what are your favourite flowers?

- Orchids. Please bring them immediately otherwise I will have a fit!

- Yes we will do it (Please bring these stupid flowers! She is uncontrollable!!!). Calm. Think about a happy and relaxing souvenir.

- Ok, I will try … Oh! I know! It was when I was very young, when I went to my grandmother’s house, I used to dance with my grandmother, and it was a very happy and fun moment… I loved to do it in the rainy afternoons; it brings a kind of sun in my heart…

- Aurélie, do you agree if I say that you are a good person and you don’t hesitate to help your friends at any time?

- Yes, I am. And I want to thank you for this… interesting interview!

- Good-bye Aurélie!

- Good-bye!

(This is an invented conversation and should not be taken at face value!)

Camille

Lea's portrait

To me, Léa, you are somebody just exceptional, and I am at loss for words to describe you to someone else, as well as I have known you for about approximately 9 or 8 years, so I will try to describe you through a painting.

I want you to imagine all that I may say, ok?

Well, are you ready?

Imagine you, an attractive girl, in a long white dress, leaning back against a tree. This tree has intermingling branches. Imagine the wind flying through your hair. A light breeze. You are at the top of a cliff. You hear the rocking of the sea, just in front of you, at the bottom of this cliff. There is the sun, with a light purple cloud curtain.

If I had to paint you, I would represent you with your long white dress, because you are pure and whiteness evokes freedom and wisdom. . In the top-right-hand-corner, I would draw the sun with some clouds because you are also stressed a lot. I will draw the rough sea behind you and the branches which represent stress too.

I would place you behind a tree because you are a little bit shy, and the tree can evoke nature (who ignores that you are fond of environment?). And at the bottom, I would draw an ear. It is a good representation because you are a trustworthy girl. The cliff represents power, and freedom, because it is dizzy. I also will draw the seagulls flying because it is as well a sign of freedom.

Now, I am going to talk about the colours that I will use for my painting which is starting to look like something.

If I had to paint you, I would use blue (sky, sea), because it stands for optimism and you are always optimistic.

I will also use green (grass, tree) because you are an ecologist, you love nature and flowers.

My painting will be my favourite and the most beautiful I have ever painted because this is you. I want everybody who sees my painting to say “Oh my god, what a beautiful painting! Just like an artist!!”

That’s how you look to me.

Aurélie