Oil on canvas,
14 x 11 in.

I read Gary Paulsen’s The Hatchet in my school’s literature class, and for some reason, had a very clear idea of what the novel’s protagonist, Brian Robeson would look like, but his face changed with every chapter of the book that I read. I wanted to determine what he would actually look like on paper/canvas, to test my ability to visualize physical descriptions of book characters.