Art Competition Archive

You cannot reach genuine masterpiece without basics

You cannot reach genuine masterpiece without basics

Artwork by Anastasia Vasilyeva

In me there was always the desire to draw. I attended art school in childhood, but I was bored to draw still lifes with plastic apples and crushed colored fabrics, especially when nobody really explained what it was for. Under the circumstances my parents had to move to another city, and I did not continue art school. Now I am quite happy about this fact, because I may have avoided the wrong way of learning the basics…

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Innocence at its best

Innocence at its best

Artwork by Mahlet Gebre

My name is Mahlet Birhanu Gebre, I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Growing up, I was blessed with a caring family. My late father, Birhanu Gebre, was a professional painter and he has especially encouraged me to explore art after observing my talent in drawing at an early age. As a child, I grew up surrounded by art materials and I believe it’s this early exposure that has facilitated my interest to be engaged in arts soon…

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The accident of my future

The accident of my future

Artwork by Dave Luckett

I am a no one. A nobody. In the late 80s my life was dealt some hard turns. As a result to that I dropped out of school. I was an artist and although I began to sell work even fresh out of school. I had to abandon my art to feed myself working odd jobs with hard manual labor.

After decades of neglect to my hands, my ability to draw was beginning to run away from me. My hands were meant for art. Not for hammers and chisels. So after a short while my hands would force me into truck driving…

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Sleeping Madeleine

Sleeping Madeleine

Artwork by Pina Kollars

I am a composer, lecturer and aspiring art teacher currently living in Vienna.

More than anything, I love the study of the human body.

I’ve recently discovered pastels and have made a drawing of my sleeping daughter. She is eight years old and it is usually next to impossible to make her sit still to capture the beauty of innocence, which is part of the essence of childhood. So I took the opportunity to depict Madeleine during a majestic sleep…

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Time Out

Time Out

Artwork by Chris Goldberg

As a 17 year old I chose between art and nursing school, I let my head rule my heart and went to nursing school. A career I followed for 25 years before leaving to work in graphic design in our family business where I am still working.

4 years ago my Mother passed away which reminded me ( with a jolt) of my own mortality and I resolved to get back into art again.

I began by doing classes at local art centres whenever I could…

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Portrait of a Toddler (It’s Me!)

Portrait of a Toddler (It’s Me!)

Artwork by Lynn Osepchuk This is a portrait done in pencil with a little pastel in the background. It was a real photo of me at two years old taken by Olan Mills Photography in black and white with a little dusting of pale yellow in the background to make the photo look a bit vintage. There’s something comforting about…

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Art: My Life and Purpose

Art: My Life and Purpose

Artwork by Mortimer McPherson

Art has become me. I believe that the only true meaning of life is to be found in creation itself.

Everything was created with meaning and for a purpose.

I would love to be able to create that others can appreciate the now, the yesterdays and the people, places, politics, religion which made us, us.

Winning this competition would help me to better develop my skills as a fine artist so that I can pass these skills on to my students and fellow artists…

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Portrait of a little young lady

Portrait of a little young lady

Artwork by Emmanuel

Hello everybody,

My name is Emmanuel.

This is my third time participation in this great contest, so this time I wanted to show something different of a pure drawing. This time I wanted to show something more colorful such as a painting.

This portrait is made after Edouard Cabane, a French artist of late 19 early 20 century. He was a student of the very well known great artist W A Bouguereau…

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Beauty within

Beauty within

Drawing by Clifford honoridez

I’m a 17 years old fine arts student from the Philippines.

I just started my drawing career a year ago…

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