Narrative Essay About A Holiday Contest

Art Contest

One of my perseverance achievements is entering the mayor holiday contests. The mayor holiday contest is a contest between school on creating a holiday card. At first, I had doubts about the holiday card, thinking that I could ever have a chance to win.

My first attempt at the mayor holiday card was in tenth grade at Bethel high school. At the beginning of the semester of art class, we first started on the mayor’s holiday card project. In my drawing class, my art teacher Mrs. Lehner discuss and explain, everything that is required for the project. The project was to create or find a place in Hampton that would represent the holidays. The objective of the project is creating a drawing, to illustrate what the holidays mean to

Even after I am finished everything I do a check on everything to see if everything was correct. My teacher Mrs. Lehner review and look at drawing, to receive any tips on my drawing. Even she believed that my work had potential, and saw it has a lot of detail. After drawing all of the buildings and detail to them, is putting the holiday ornaments in my work. By determining how tall and how long the Christmas tree was, I sketched a tree at the center of the Peninsula. Then around the corner of the buildings I drew circles around them representing Christmas light. Then down where the leafless tree is at, I repeated by drawing circle representing them as lights. Then after drawing everything, I get a micron drawing pen to outline the features and buildings. By using the micron pens It assists me with the small tiny detail that people cannot see. After finishing outlining the drawing with micron pen, the next thing is to put colors in the drawing. The tools for putting color: color pencils, markers, black sharpies, and using paint. With color pencils I had to use different colors, by blending them to match the exact color. Also I use markers on the big parts, that needed to be cleared. With the paint I use white paint to represent “snow” falling from the sky. The last step was using a black color pencil, to represent the night