So You Want to be an Artist 2011

We missed this as it was happening, but here is the winning piece for the National Gallery's "So You Want to be an Artist?" contest held last year. The winning entry was very good. His artist's statement was very professional as well. As much as we don't like artist's statements, a well-written one is best. Oh, the link this contest was through Ms G-E's appeal for support for valwitton's piece "Scarlett" through the excellent art blog at http://artshhs.blogspot.com/

Both images courtesy of the National Gallery at www.gallery.ca

Art Cabin

Summer vacation found this private cabin in the Octopus Islands of British Columbia. The cabin contains hundreds of pieces of art made of flotsam and jetsam, old boat parts and natural materials. The art is contributed by visiting boaters and is clearly a family affair with the names of the vessels and their crew worked into each piece. Super inspiring.

Thank you to the owners for their generosity in allowing this to happen!

Victoria Strehlau

This year's awesome School's Prize entries from Canada are well represented by Walkerville Collegiate Institute's Victoria Strehlau. There is tons of great art at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/

SISTER CORITA KENT

Found this via old-chum.com who got it via mike mills
SISTER CORITA KENT


Mike likes rule 10. We like rule 7.

Colour Codified

Here are some arresting images of colour used to revisit established images.

An accomplished artist and teacher, Renee Van Halm reworked a famous Canadian Painter... check out Knowledge Network's short videos at http://www.knowledge.ca/program/cartographies-shorts , and choose the one with the graphic that looks like the top one above.

Next are two cool images from arthurbuston.blogspot.com found via boingboing.net. Not Canadian nor student work, but just cool. In one of them he analyzed the five most predominant colours from some Van Gogh paintings and presented their predominance in pie charts. Visual Analytics meets art.

2011 Earth Day Art Contest for BC Students

Here's the cover art for the British Columbia Secondary Schools’
2011 Earth Day Art Show and Competition. This powerful image is uncredited, but it comes from one of the three documents describing the contest... oh, this just in... the artist is Grade Twelver Brooke Thomas. We're not sure which school, but likely in Surrey, BC based on the link...

http://www.artscouncilofsurrey.ca/

Your teacher has to register your intention to compete by January 28th, then the art must be delivered in Surrey by March 11th. Your process must be documented and seems to be important for the judging. Since that makes for a big project, may we suggest integrating your research efforts with that of other school assignments?

SAATCHI GALLERY / SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ART PRIZE FOR SCHOOLS 2010 Deadline

The deadline for entries is coming up fast - December 3 for both the Schools' Prize and the Sculpture Prize. Get your school's teacher to set it up NOW!

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/index.php

This is Erica Phillips' Entry from Collingwood School in West Van. Its a sorta tattoo mermaid totem pole thingy and pretty cool.

There are currently only three other Canadian Schools entered. Get cracking.