Have you ever joined an art contest? =)

Back in high school, I was part of the art club for four consecutive years, and was even elected (from sheer luck) as president in my senior year. The biggest project of the Art Club was making the huge backdrops for the annual high school dance and concert. Those were the days pre-tarpaulin printing! ;p

One time, I joined a contest via Art Club: a Faber Castell sponsored drawing contest. I made a Van Gogh-ish portrait, which sadly I can't find right now in my messy room. I was a really shy kid that when the sign of those who qualified for the next level of the contest was posted, I just scanned the paper fast and left feeling I lost. Turns out my name was there! ;p I let the moment pass.

In my senior year, I joined another art contest in school, along with other high schoolers. This time, it was sponsored by the Music Department of our school's college, and we were asked to draw on the spot with craypas (oil pastels) on a huge illustration board...face to face, and complete with easel feeling like a real painter. ;-) They played a music and we were asked to interpret it through our artwork. I won second best, but I loved the experience! (The prize, btw, was a photo album...haha!)

The last art contest I remembered joining was the design-your-own slippers sponsored by Banana Peel. My friends knew this contest by heart because I was a fresh grad then, jobless, and then I won P20k instantly for bagging the first place. I immediately got myself a personal computer (still the one I am using right now, haha!).





This year, I joined Shopwise's art contest, where you'll purchase a P75 cavass bag from their grocery, and design it with the theme "Pinoy"...in celebration of Philippine Independence Day-slash-back to school for the students. What attracted me to join was the canvass bag. ;p And also, the posters around the grocery saying "win as much as P100, 000!"--which I discovered online will be split amongst the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd placers. ;) Still, not bad!