Art Competition Archive

By Uchenna Ofodile

“Artist don’t make money until they’re dead,” he said. It was a harsh though for a child to stomach, but in a one utterance my father dented my dream of being an artist. I should have cried, but I did not. I just retreated back to the safety of my room. Back to a reality of infinite possibilities.

I use to sit in my room and draw until the moon waved me to sleep. When I dreamed, my drawings came to life and I could not wait to wake up so I could draw again. I was quiet, but the pencil chronicled my internal dialogue. It narrated, while the paper listened. With each line I was transported from boredom to a majestic realm of pure amusement. I could be myself. The paper never judged, even when others did…

Troy Perkins

I started art back in junior high school, then when I started working it fell to the way side but now that I am I great need of solace and relaxation I find that art helps to give me that…

Teo Kvitsinadze

I live in a small Country named Georgia (Caucasus). In my country Art isn’t at its appropriate level. I need to know if I stand at the right way to show Georgian people Arts power…

Dokino

My name is Dokino, born and raised in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. I have been living in Boston since 2006.

I have studied in Hartford Art School at University of Hartford and Illustration at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in Cambridge…

By Cici Polk

I’ve loved art my whole life. I never thought I could make a living at it, so I studied to be an accountant instead. Sometimes I doodle on the back of my spreadsheets. Sometimes I feel jealous that my kids get to take art classes in school.

What I really want to do is get good enough at art to quit accounting and make a living doing what I already love to do. As with any working mother, time is scarce, so an online course is perfect for me.

I hope you like my drawing!

By Arturo Odilón Ortiz

I discover myself as a plastic artist after the company that I was working closed doors. I went to Mexico to visit my mother and ask her to give me some lessons in oil painting since she is a great artist and I started producing paintings that my Mom feels proud off. I really like and enjoy painting and I think it is going to be my new career but still need a lot to learn, that is why I would like to win the contest, the painting that I sending is the 2nd ever produce…

Fitnat El-Khaldi

Living in Saudi Arabia imposes cultural restrictions on learning portrait and figure drawing or painting. I can’t find any professional and accredited courses on this title. Your course teaches all that I want to learn without social criticism at the comfort of my home…

By Yogesh B. Meshram (Yogesh Bamni)

Hi this is Yogesh B. Meshram (Yogesh Bamni) from India. I’m an artist interested in Drawing, Sketching, and other art techniques.

About Drawing: My painting showing beauty of women. My Drawing showing good proportion of drawing on board, different appropriate stroke of lines; beauty of women and lines clearly visible…

By Dianne Bauer

I have always been an artist. Even managed a year of study before poverty and real world necessities took over. Now decades have passed and I turn my focus to increasing my skills. The Academy has been a god send in truly teaching me the old world what and how of the oil medium.

In my mind reside paintings demanding to be brought to life. It is my wish to complete these works and send them out into the world. A mark of my time on this earth so too speak and a gift to my children.

I hope you find my attempts acceptable….