
Recently awarded “Arts & Culture: Connecting Communities to the Arts” (2013)from the University of Chicago and the South East Commission, recognizing her outstanding work and committed service. For the past three decades she has been committed to the creation of public art projects that expose children and communities to art making, providing a group experience that elevates the neighborhoods aesthetic understanding. Sylvain’s painting has crossed many disciplines studio painting, scenic design, mural painting, decorative arts, education, curation and community planning. You’ll just have to scale it larger once you start working on the actual installation.Dorian Sylvain | Artist | Muralist | Fine Artist | Decorative Painter | Chicago | Illinois – Dorian Sylvain is a painter, an interpreter of color exploring color as it influences her feelings, enhances texture and pattern and how it can be used to exploit imagery. Even if you're planning on making a large sidewalk drawing, starting with these graphs can help you plan out your design.You may want to label the rows and columns with numbers and letters to help you keep track of each square.The number of lines you’ll use will depend on the size of your drawing, but for a simple sketch, a 5x5 grid is a good place to start. Don’t make the squares too small, or it will be hard to see the details of your drawing.The more dramatically you angle the lines, the larger the object will seem. The bottom of the graph (typically the part closest to the photo point) should be the widest, then it should become more narrow the further up the page it goes.

Once you know where you want your photo point to be, use a ruler to draw a graph with angled lines so it looks like the graph is trailing into the distance. Draw a line graph with vanishing perspective lines.
