Incarcerated artists in Bonne Terre hone their skills with a St. Louis exhibit and art class

Rey Hernandez shares three drawings and paintings he’s been working on recently.

There’s a commissioned piece of a fellow incarcerated man and his fiancée. One other is of a woman with a wolf’s pelt on her head with mountains, waterfalls and another wolf in the background. Like for every artist, sometimes the ideas come to Hernandez; other times, he looks for inspiration.

“Sometimes when it just gets monotonous, I have to do something creative,” Hernandez said. “So if you just throw me your favorite color, favorite animal, then I got to figure out a way to get creative and just get outside my box.”…

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