Mosaics, pastels, pottery, pencil drawing. Those are just a few of the classes Kamryn Buckwalter, 10, has taken in the six years since she became interested in art. Currently, she’s enrolled in an oil painting class—her preferred medium—at McGuffey Art Center with Renee Balfour. “Renee is a really great artist, and she gives me a lot of ideas,” Kamryn says.
It goes without saying this is a hobby she plans to keep pursuing, and she has the chops to back it up: Kamryn won this year’s yearbook cover contest at Hollymead Elementary and one of her works of art is featured in the Albemarle County Public Schools 2015-2016 calendar. She says her parents have run out of wall space to keep all of her paintings at home, so her dad brought some of them to his office. She’s even sold a few.
Kamryn tried taking lessons for other things—piano, ballet—but nothing stuck. “I really only like art classes,” she says. “I want to be an artist forever.”
