Hey, I'm Irha Khurram

Recreation of “The basket of Apples” by Paul Cezanne

Medium: Coloured pencils

Size: 8x10 inch

Date: Feb 8, 2021

CPT Recreation of "Northern Lake"

The title of the art piece I have chosen to recreate is called “Northern Lake”. It was painted in the year 1923 by Lawren Stewart Harris, a member of the Group Of Seven.

My name is Irha Khurram and I recreated this beautiful art piece from my home in Cookstown, Ontario. I started this painting on Sunday March 21st and completed the art piece on Saturday March 27th, 2021. After lots of searching I finally chose to recreate this piece “Northern Lake” because the visuals of the trees in the foreground of the painting had caught my eye along with the beautifully painted sky and water. I knew it would be a bit of a challenge especially having to work with paint but in the end, I decided that this is the painting I wanted to do for my CPT.

My experience with creating this image definitely had its ups and downs. Sometimes I felt like throwing the canvas out my window and sometimes I was really immersed in the painting and trying to get it just right. Considering this is such a big part of my grade, it was a little bit stressful but I tried to enjoy it as much as I could. The reasoning for my colour choice is simply due to the requirements of the CPT. Since we had to recreate the image, the colours should be as accurate as possible so that’s what I tried to do with the best of my ability.