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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’m a 17 years old fine arts student from the Philippines.
I just started my drawing career a year ago…
I’m a classical animator who learned life drawing through the discipline of animation. I enjoy the complexity of the human figure and all life for that matter.
Capturing life and channeling it into a drawing or sketch is the magic I gravitate to in all art. ..
Whenever I dedicate time to art, it seems to me that life is more colourful. Also whenever I spend too much time doing it, things start to lose colour. I thought that one day when I have all the time in the world I may do more creative work. But that time never comes.