Teen pencils in big future with detailed work

TRAVIS Goodshaw is a self-taught artist who possesses a keen eye for detail. In fact, some of his drawings are so detailed, they look like photographs.

Penrith Anglican College Year 12 student Travis Goodshaw, 18, with his artwork. Picture: Robert Pozo

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TRAVIS Goodshaw is a self-taught artist who possesses a keen eye for detail.

The Year 12 Penrith Anglican College student, who mostly works with black and white, had a blossoming love for art by the time he started school.

“I picked up a pencil from a young age … when I was two or three years old,” Goodshaw said.

“It started out really dodgy and really scribbly.

“One of my first drawings was a car, I used to love V8 supercars because Dad was into it.”

Travis Goodshaw, 18, with some of his artworks.

By 14, he had “learned from” his mistakes but stayed in his comfort zone, something one of his school art teachers encouraged him to venture out of three years ago.

She convinced Goodshaw to create a portrait, which won second prize at the Easter show and first at the Penrith show, the Glenmore Park resident said.

One of his newer pieces is on display at his school. The pencil and graphite piece, sketched using 7B and 8B pencils, shows a beggar’s face with an intricate beard.

“I actually had to leave the white spaces for all the little individual hairs and draw around them,” Goodshaw said.

For his HSC Visual Arts Body of Work, the pupil from Glenmore Park created a mix of 12 drawings, based off the idea “wrinkles merely indicate where smiles have been”.

“The more detail (a person has) in their face – the more wrinkles, scars, pores – the more they have experienced in their life.”

Goodshaw wants to enter the Archibald Prize and try landscape art.

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