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

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this work was done last school year as part of a grade 10 project at Sacred Heart High School in Walkerton, Ontario (so the artist must be in grade 11 this year, right?). the project was to take an image, manipulate it on a computer, then paint it. Ms George's own example is very cool, but you have to go to their super blog to see it... http://artshhs.blogspot.com/