Let me begin in describing the architecture of the building and its surrounding area. The building is located just below the Grand Mesa and within …show more content…
One of her paintings simply titled “Hope” gives a feeling of an optimistic future. The painting media is oil on canvas. The painting presents child with her back to us. She is wearing a white dress with red and blue flowers, as she seems to be walking away slowly. She is surrounded by children drawings floating all around her, as they appear to follow her as she is walking away. The child’s doodles are mostly stick figures you would see a younger child, perhaps 3-5 years old produce. The open lines of the drawings connect and disconnect in a disarray of shapes. The colors in the painting are not bright; the use of dark grays and greens gives the piece a mixed value. Only a delicate use of red is used in background drawings and on her dress. Many of Lagardes’ pieces involve deep nostalgia of childhood. She creates beautiful portraits of children surrounded in their own creative imagination. Innocence we lose as we reach