1 00:00:46,620 --> 00:00:52,280 My name is Charlotte Bottová, I live in Hnúšťa, I´m 27 years old. 2 00:00:52,380 --> 00:00:55,690 I´ve got one son, he is 7 years old. 3 00:00:55,980 --> 00:00:57,690 His name is Boris. 4 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:05,120 I graduated from the Secondary vocation school in Rimavská Sobota, field of study was the cosmetics. 5 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,550 I like drawing since I was a little girl, 6 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,040 but I started to love it mostly during the secondary school. 7 00:01:14,170 --> 00:01:16,480 We were drawing the portraits 8 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,870 and I still do it. 9 00:01:21,230 --> 00:01:26,600 I´ve got it from my father, who also draws the portraits. 10 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,900 He taught me the basic face features, how to draw them, 11 00:01:31,950 --> 00:01:36,060 where to use shadows and that helped me a lot in my drawing. 12 00:01:36,270 --> 00:01:42,510 At the secondary school, I had a professor, who also helped me a lot. 13 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:47,610 At that school I was attended, we had a subject, called aesthetic education. 14 00:01:48,350 --> 00:01:53,230 And there we were supposed to draw according to the live model. 15 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:59,000 Some classmate was sitting at the desk and we all had to draw her. 16 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,910 At the end of the lesson we showed it to the professor. 17 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:09,100 All the class-mates had a very bad grades, I was the only one who was the best, I suppose. 18 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:15,930 And that was an impulse that moved me, that yes, I want this, this is what I really want to do in the future. 19 00:02:16,670 --> 00:02:19,370 And I´m doing it so far. 20 00:02:20,410 --> 00:02:26,480 The most I was drawing after finishing the high school. 21 00:02:26,860 --> 00:02:32,560 I started to work with a materials, I could choose what materials I need. 22 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,520 I´ve found all my inspirations in the books and on the internet. 23 00:02:36,780 --> 00:02:42,170 And I think the more you draw, the more you improve. 24 00:02:42,350 --> 00:02:46,860 The more you work on yourself, the better you become, the talent is not everything. 25 00:02:47,450 --> 00:02:52,240 The talent is just a full stop, it helps you to move further. 26 00:02:52,430 --> 00:02:57,260 Everything is about the work, how you work and how hard. 27 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:05,130 I had never attended any art school, I am a self-taught learner. 28 00:03:05,130 --> 00:03:09,800 I learned from the books, then from the internet. 29 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:15,790 I applied to the college right after the high school, 30 00:03:16,010 --> 00:03:21,390 to the College of Arts in Košice, at Technical University. 31 00:03:22,510 --> 00:03:29,160 Unfortunately, I wasn´t accepted, I passed two rounds, but then they didn´t choose me. 32 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:36,140 The entrance exams were hard for me, as I didn´t have any experience, as the others. 33 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:44,970 Most of the people came from the high art schools and I was a self-taught, so for me it was something new. 34 00:03:46,220 --> 00:03:52,890 We had a theme of a live model painting, boy or a girl, I´ve chosen a girl. 35 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,490 With this model I made it to the second round. 36 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:03,580 In the second round we had got a figure drawing. 37 00:04:04,190 --> 00:04:06,920 The figure was fine, but 38 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:10,860 the last one, that made me not succeed, 39 00:04:10,860 --> 00:04:13,370 it was our own theme, what we wanted. 40 00:04:13,370 --> 00:04:15,820 I was wondering why that happened, because 41 00:04:16,810 --> 00:04:18,190 Because 42 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:25,380 when you pick the theme you want, you should draw it the best, but, unfortunately, I failed. 43 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:32,410 After finishing the high school I´ve settled down. 44 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:39,420 I was pregnant and I live in a family house, 45 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:44,510 I´ve got a partner and a little son, he is 7 years old, he already goes to school. 46 00:04:46,350 --> 00:04:51,950 I try to make him love art and drawing, I devote my time to him 47 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,580 and I hope he got something from me and he will do it in the future. 48 00:06:16,140 --> 00:06:21,720 The most of all I work with a graphite pencils, I like this technique. 49 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,370 I like it, because 50 00:06:26,090 --> 00:06:32,960 I find it very difficult to choose the correct pencil and the right softness for the concrete paper. 51 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,800 I play with the drawing, with the portrait 52 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,240 until I am satisfied. 53 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:46,220 In respect of a painting, I have no problem to do it, if someone asks me. 54 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:51,320 The last time I painted, it was in the kindergarten. 55 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:56,400 It was an impulse of our teacher, who gave me the theme Nemo. 56 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,560 I was working on it about 6 hours. 57 00:07:01,390 --> 00:07:03,360 The technique was a painting, 58 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:07,210 I used the acrylic and the tempera colours. 59 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,620 If I compare 60 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,070 the drawing with a pencil and the painting, 61 00:07:15,390 --> 00:07:20,140 I think, it is much more difficult with a colours. 62 00:07:20,380 --> 00:07:26,040 Because not everybody can give that right richness of the colours to the picture. 63 00:07:26,220 --> 00:07:34,240 But on the other hand some artists can´t work with a pencils, with a details and highlights. 64 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,400 I got to the exhibitions by putting my drawings 65 00:08:03,820 --> 00:08:05,760 to the internet. 66 00:08:06,250 --> 00:08:12,670 The people were liking and sharing it and then I got the messages, if I want to have an exhibition 67 00:08:12,910 --> 00:08:21,840 or if I can teach somebody and if I can come to have a presentation about my works. 68 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,470 I already had three various exhibitions. 69 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:30,030 One exhibition was at Ara Art, in Prague. 70 00:08:30,510 --> 00:08:34,040 There were Romani amateur artists. 71 00:08:34,330 --> 00:08:36,730 they found me through Facebook. 72 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:42,200 I sent there 10 of my drawings. 73 00:08:43,050 --> 00:08:46,580 And the theme were portraits. 74 00:08:47,790 --> 00:08:51,340 In Rimavská Baňa, the mayor asked me. 75 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,250 There was an anniversary 76 00:08:55,230 --> 00:08:58,090 of the village I came from. 77 00:08:59,230 --> 00:09:03,080 If I could come to represent my artworks. 78 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:08,510 She said, she is proud of me and if I can bring some of my sketches. 79 00:09:08,730 --> 00:09:11,310 The third exhibition was in Košice. 80 00:09:11,690 --> 00:09:14,750 Mrs. Vaňová was talking to me personally. 81 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:20,080 There I had my own exhibition and also an interview with her. 82 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,460 All these exhibitions I had in 2016. 83 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:29,390 It was a very happy year for me, I can say, 84 00:09:30,830 --> 00:09:36,960 that I could have presented myself and my works could be seen by many people in the other places. 85 00:09:37,050 --> 00:09:44,240 In 2016 I co-operated with a well-known singer Gitana, Adriana Dráfiová. 86 00:09:45,050 --> 00:09:50,250 We worked together on a project at the elementary school in Hnúšťa. 87 00:09:51,370 --> 00:09:56,250 Her part was to teach the kids 88 00:09:56,300 --> 00:09:59,320 singing 89 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,890 and my part was to teach them drawing. 90 00:10:12,830 --> 00:10:16,840 Regarding the drawing, my parents do support me. 91 00:10:16,970 --> 00:10:22,460 They also buy me some material for drawing or whatever I need. 92 00:10:22,810 --> 00:10:28,400 And they support me by sharing my posts on the internet. 93 00:10:29,610 --> 00:10:32,060 They keep on saying how proud they are of me. 94 00:10:34,060 --> 00:10:39,040 I am also proud of my son, who is also drawing. 95 00:10:39,230 --> 00:10:46,640 He sits beside me and he draws the same as I do or he works on his own themes, what he wants to draw. 96 00:10:46,810 --> 00:10:50,490 But most of all he draws a comic characters. 97 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:56,250 He likes it and I hope he will like it also in the future. 98 00:10:56,490 --> 00:10:58,910 I will support him, of course. 99 00:11:06,220 --> 00:11:13,500 Thanks to internet, the unknown people text me and they ask me for a portrait. 100 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:21,200 They prefer both one or two persons at the various sizes of a sheet. 101 00:11:22,990 --> 00:11:29,390 I always try to keep all the deadlines, because people often want it as a present. 102 00:11:30,730 --> 00:11:37,550 These messages are mostly pleasant, because it is nice when somebody wants to order something from you 103 00:11:37,770 --> 00:11:45,770 and when you get a feedback how satisfied they are, that it was prettier than the photograph. 104 00:11:56,590 --> 00:11:59,290 Many people have told me, that 105 00:11:59,290 --> 00:12:04,220 you are lucky, you know it, but it is all 106 00:12:04,460 --> 00:12:09,680 about if you want to do something and you must train every day. 107 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:13,340 I was drawing almost every second day, it´s not only 108 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,720 that I go, I paint and it´s finished, it takes hours and hours of my work there. 109 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,360 And sometimes that feeling and the result is worth it, 110 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,540 or the compliment makes its work for me, too, 111 00:12:24,540 --> 00:12:33,390 but the most satisfying is when someone wants the drawing from me, it happened many times to me and it´s still happening. 112 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:39,050 Even the famous person, if you know Gypsy Chave, 113 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:45,210 well, so he asked me that he wants for his sister and actually, when he saw it at home, 114 00:12:45,550 --> 00:12:48,990 he said to me, it was much better than the photograph. 115 00:12:48,990 --> 00:12:54,010 And that had pleased me even more and it made me really happy. 116 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:56,010 The drawing fulfills me. 117 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,400 And that´s what I want, 118 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,840 what I want to do for living in the future. 119 00:13:04,570 --> 00:13:11,070 I´ve got a dream, and I hope it will come true in the future, is to have my own tattoo studio 120 00:13:11,820 --> 00:13:16,420 and to tattoo people, to use that talent. 121 00:13:16,750 --> 00:13:24,410 Or, I would like to pass my experiences further to the kids, I would like to have some art school, 122 00:13:24,910 --> 00:13:29,100 I want to pass that talent further, so it won´t stay only in myself, 123 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:33,280 so I could show something to the other kids. 124 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:37,410 These two thing would be the dream come true 125 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:42,460 Well, the first one is the tattoo studio and the second is some kind of a school 126 00:13:42,460 --> 00:13:46,360 or just a room, where I can teach children to draw. 127 00:13:46,510 --> 00:13:51,340 To move it on and to teach the kids something that I know. 128 00:13:51,340 --> 00:13:54,240 And maybe I will also learn always something new. 129 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,160 But this is what I would really love to do in my life, 130 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,720 what would fulfills me and makes me happy.