Student Art Contest 2016
Winning Artwork
Winning Artwork
High School Division: Place Winners
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First Place
Rocks
Watercolor Noelia Miranda Age 17, in 12th grade Cypress Ranch High School Public School - Teacher: Nancy Hines "What inspired me to create this piece was a picture I took of a beach while touring Peru. I loved how the water crashed and glistened on the dark rocks and I wanted to recreate it with watercolors since it was a medium I previously wasn't experienced in." Second Place
Elise
Gouache and Acrylic Leah Stonecipher Age 18, in 12th grade The Woodlands High School - Teacher: Jenny Lucas "The purpose of this piece was to explore the human face in all its beauty, the irregular textures and abnormal colors unique to each individual. Using an ultra-saturated color palette, I developed a new technique involving crosshatching with the paint to help accentuate the planes of the face." Third Place
Decommissioned
Colored Pencil and Acrylic Christopher McKnight Age 16, in 11th grade Cypress Christian School Private School - Teacher: Beth Brubaker "This work is something I made based on some doodles in my sketchbook of simple little robots. I've always loved the art and vision of the future from the 50's and 60's, with atomic powered cars and robots cooking our food. I mixed that with the grungy look of today's future." Honorable Mention
Sadie
Oils Christy Lovelady Age 7, in 11th grade Home Schooled - Teacher: Charlotte Lovelady "As I was working on this portrait, I was thinking about how childhood is carefree and full of light. Sadie is looking ahead to the sometimes dark, stormy days of adulthood, while the bright days of childhood are still shining down upon her." |
High School Division: Jurors' Selections
The Coat
Monoprint Ashley Huang Klein Oak High School Teacher: Jennifer Schiebel |
Polillas
Cut Paper Fernando Osuna College Park High School Teacher: Leslie Lewis |
Self Portrait
Graphite Kaylan Quintero Cypress Ranch High School Teacher: Nancy Hines |
Contentment
Acrylics Jessie Brown John Cooper School Teacher: Karen Fearon |
Winter Crane
Scratchboard, Madileine Malo, Klein High School Teacher: Jessica Hamilton |
Middle School Division: Place Winners
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First PlaceTurquoise Travelers
Colored Pencil Adriana Puzon Age 13 in 7th grade Spillane Middle School - Teacher: Lisa Bennett "This beautiful setting caught my eye immediately, like a hidden treasure. With swirling jewels of magnificent vibrant color and light, rationally I couldn't ignore it." Second Place
Three Faces of Creative Expression
Colored Pencil, Erin Del Paggio Age 14 in 8th grade Doerre Intermediate School - Teacher: Lorraine Millican "This piece represents the different faces I make while working. I made these faces while brainstorming and incorporated them into the piece. The silly face represents the beginning of a project. The ""shh"" face represents my concentration during, and the exhausted face is me at the end of a piece." Third Place Window Shard
Acrylic Tobi Miller Age 13, in 7th grade McCullough Junior High School - Teacher; Cindy Moss "We started this project after we studied Fauvism portraits done by Henri Matisse. Using acrylic paints, I blended analogous colors to develop intermediate tones and high contrast in values. I used water to weaken some colors on my face to create a transparent quality which gave a sense of texture to the surface." Honorable Mention
Facetrasso
Mixed Media Collage Santiago Vazquez Age 13, in 7th grade McCullough Junior High School - Teacher: Amy Flannery "This Pablo Picasso inspired art piece is called 'The Facetrasso.' To make this piece, I combined two self-portraits in a cubism like style and collaged a self made marbleized cloth on the piece along with other designs. The Facetrasso represents the combinations of different personalities, frontal or side on." |
Middle School Division: Jurors' Selections
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Elephant
Mixed Media Gabrielle Kostecki 8th grade Cypress Christian School Teacher Beth Brubaker |
Circus Elephants
Acrylic Haley Johnson 5th grade Northpointe Intermediate School Teacher: Julie Schulte |
Sleeping Hunter
Acrylic Kalissa Finn 8th grade Salem Lutheran School Teacher: Karen Paluch |
Tranquility of Nature,
Pen and Ink Leah Austin 8th grade McCullough Junior High School Teacher: Laurie Stone Adams |
A Path Into The Unknown
Printmaking Wyatt Wright 8th grade The John Cooper School Teacher: Lesia Streckfuss |
Elementary School Division: Place Winners
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First PlaceThe Blossom
Mixed Media Reese Robinson Age 7, in 2nd grade Mittelstadt Elementary School - Teacher: Ruth Ackermann "I like the pretty flowers and the background. I learned how to double load my paintbrush to make the flowers. I learned how to use ink and a straw to make the branches. I learned to use art tissue paper and water for the background." Second PlaceSnowy Sunrise of New York/Deep Blue Curtain of Spring Rain
Printmaking Collagraph Elakiya Jayaraman Age 9, in 3rd grade The John Cooper School - Teacher: Amy Dietrich "I made this print by cutting pieces of thick paper to look like buildings. We were making a Cityscape. I glued the paper down and made my city trying to show space and overlapping. When it was dry, I rolled two different colors of ink on the buildings and pressed it onto a black paper and there was my print! We made multiple prints with different colors so the colors would show in the next print." Third PlaceFantasy Power
Chalk Pastels Melody Edwards Age 11, in 5th grade Klenk Elementary School - Teacher: Tiffany Robinson "My artwork is unique because it explains my African-American culture, as it also describes me as a beautiful, unique, talented person. It shows that no one can steal my power, that's why it's ""Fantasy Power." Honorable Mention
The Barn
Oils Eoghan Collins Age 10, in 4th grade St. Anne Catholic School - Teacher: Veronica Payan "The barn was an awesome barn and I like painting with oil. I painted a barn, because my grandpa told me that houses required more skills than barns." |
Elementary School Division: Jurors' Selections
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Smooth Jazz
Tempera Reva Guinn 5th grade The John Coooper School Teacher: Karen Fearon |
Colorful Turtle
Tempera Tessa Nieto-Alvarez 3rd grade Blackshear Elementary School Teacher: Jodi Territo |
Into the Night
Printmaking Carlos Calderon 4th grade The John Coooper School Teacher: Amy Dietrich |
Seen Better Days
Mixed Media Alejandro Cueto 5th grade Collins Intermediate School Teacher: Janet Melton |
Spring Chickens
Watercolor, Crayons Naomi Villarreal Kindergarten Carroll Elementary School Teacher: Sarah Kersh |