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The United Nations Environment Programmed (UNEP) kicked off the 21st annual International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment (ICPC). The ICPC is an environmental education plan for elementary and middle school students that use art as its primary instructional vehicle. The sub-themes of this year are painting rivalry.

Children — ages six to 14 — are invited to participate and create artwork that illustrates their concerns and hopes for the defense of the environment in their communities, cities and countries. “Young people play a crucial role in our communities and represent our best hope for change. The free-style artwork must be submitted on either letter or legal-size paper and can be created using crayons, colored pencils, watercolors, oils, etc. Individual students may enter more than one submission. The ICPC is a name event of UNEP’s annual World Environment Day (WED) celebrations.

The winner of the first prize will receive $ 2000 and a fully-paid trip to the 2012 TUNZA International Children’s Seminar. TUNZA is UNEP’s worldwide youth forum that brings students together to discuss ecological issues and share experiences.

The 2nd prize winner will get $ 1000 and a fully-paid trip to the 2012 TUNZA International Children’s Symposium.

 In the third, fourth and fifth categories, three, 10 and 30 winners will get a diploma correspondingly. There will also be one winner from each region, including Africa, Asia and the Pacific, West Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and North America. Winners will be selected through a pale and impartial selection by the organizers. Local winners will be announced on April 22 and global winners on June 5, which is also world Environment Day.

An amateur artist in Acadiana is getting national attention, but Winkelheimer Smith isn’t your traditional artist. She’s actually an accumulator. Shyla Mouton said, “I never thought I would have a rodent. I didn’t think they were very loving, but they are and get very attached to their owners. “Mouton saved Winkleheimer after she had a close call with a cat.”One of he outside drift that we have knocked her out the tree,” Mouton said. “I went out to grab her and I scooped her up. I thought she was dead at first, but she was still gasp.” After being nursed back to health, Winkleheimer started following Mouton around. She is a full-time artist and spends her day’s creation dolls. Bright-eyed Winkleheimer is always watching close following.

“She would pick up the paint brushes and spontaneous some of her twigs I’d give her to play with,” Mouton said. “She would stand up to hold them, so it kind of looked like she was mimicking what I was doing.” I’ll admit it wasn’t easy getting Winkleheimer to painting us a picture; after all she’s become fairly the star. Her YouTube video has almost 45 thousand hits. After an hour and a half of gnawing on a few nuts, getting some play time in, grooming herself and even trying to take a nap, she was ready to paint her masterpiece. A few of her paintings have actually been selling on Ebay. Mouton said she thinks Winkleheimer’s skills will just get better with more practice.

When Mary Pixley discovered a sequence of watercolors by the late Taiwanese artist Ran In-Ting in the MU Museum of Art and Archaeology’s collection, she was struck by their beauty.

“They were masterpieces, and I required to sharing them with our community,” said Pixley, associate curator of European and American art for the museum.

The result is “Ran In-Ting‘s Watercolors, East and West Mix in similes of Rural Taiwan,” nine watercolors and four black ink paintings on show through mid August.

Ran, considered a national treasure of Taiwanese art, formed works that blend traditional Eastern art and current Western art. Born in 1903, he studied work of art in the late 1920s with Japanese watercolorist Ishikawa Kinichiro.

In 1959, the Chinese government awarded Ran the National Art Prize, the maximum honor an artist can be given at that time in that country. Ran died in 1979.

It is the first time the museum has shown these Oil paintings by Ran. They are part of 25 paintings donated to the museum by Howard Rusk Long, a lifelong Columbian who trained in the Missouri School of Journalism from 1940 to 1950, according to in order from the museum. He perhaps discovered Ran’s work when he traveled to Taiwan in the late 1950s, Pixley said.

One of the watercolors, “Dragon Dance,” shows the thrilling performance of a traditional Chinese dragon dance.

Another watercolor, “Market Place,” shows a conventional Taiwanese market. The pressure of Western art can be seen in the composition of the work. The large, white tents imitate the influence of modern art as they express the beauty of blank space, Pixley said.

Ran frequently used a painting techniques called layering, Pixley said. “Layering watercolors on top of each other is very tough to do,” she said.

paddies seem to harmonize with the curves of the mountains, and the painting is made more beautiful by the fluid variegation of color in the sky, Pixley said.

“Bus Stop” invites the viewer to be a part of its composition and explore the everyday sensations of waiting for the local bus. The people stand out thanks to the washed-out background. Each individual is depicted with a great amount of detail with different colors a complex task for a watercolorist, Pixley said.

She said the exhibition reveals why Ran is recognized as an exceptional watercolorist and solitary of Taiwan’s most famous artists. The watercolors show his mastery of the fluid medium and his endless originality.

A TOTAL of 140 Bahraini children have together a global initiative to make the largest painting in the world that will be showcased at the Olympic Games in London next year.

Similar contributions are being completed in 57 other countries, where children get together and add their own creativity.

“The full size artwork will be assembled, folded and sent throughout DHL to London,” said Salman Cultural Centre head and project spokeswoman Salama Ateeq.

“Bahrain’s division of the whole massive painting will then be composed and sewn with works from other countries to create one big painting.”

The Bahraini children’s donation to the Biggest Painting in the World project is a 5m by 25m artwork that utilized 20 gallons of wall paint.

The project was organized at the centre, which falls under the umbrella of the General Organization for Youth and Sport , in co-ordination with Japan based non-profit organization Earth self Project.

The canvas painting, which took over a month to prepare and complete, included the role of children aged between three and six years.

A Goys officer said they continuously seek to organise activities and programmes to care for young talents and arrange an aware generation that contributes to the future development of Bahrain.

The event, sponsored by Zain Bahrain, was also supervised by fine arts specialists and teachers. To know more about kids painting

A 19th century oil painting of the Birmingham to Kidderminster stagecoach, the unbeatable, sold for £3,500 when it went under the hit in Shrewsbury.

The painting, which was consigned to Halls’ auction of paintings, silver and jewellery at the Welsh Bridge saleroom in Shrewsbury, was by an unknown English artist and sold to a coaching fanatic from Southern England.

They Owned by Godfrey and Co, the stagecoach ran from Swan Hotel, Birmingham to Lion Hotel, Kidderminster.

The 16th century hotel, which stopped up in 1963, was once Kidderminster’s most important inn, located at the top of High Street and owned by the Lords of the Manor, the Foleys and Earls of Dudley.

The auction record for a painting by Sir Stanley Spencer was broken double within minutes at Sotheby’s in London.

Workmen in the House, which had an better estimate of £2m, sold for £4.7m before Sunflower and Dog Worship, with a top estimate of £1.5m, fetched £5.4m.

The prior record was the £1.43m achieved at Sotheby’s in December for 1954 work Hilda and I at Pond Street.

Lucian Freud’s Boat on a Beach fetched £2.6m in Wednesday’s sale a record for a work on paper by the artist.

Sir Stanley, described by the auction house as one of the 20th Century’s most significant UK artists, was born in 1891 and lived and worked in the Berkshire village of Cookham, now home to a gallery of his work.

Sunflower and Dog Worship, 1937, for now, shows a husband and wife being embraced by giant flowers and explores Sir Stanley’s notion of universal harmony.

The collection was inherited and maintained by his ward, Honor Frost, an underwater archaeology pioneer who died final year aged 92.

The second and third parts of the auction take place on Thursday.
Artists up for auction contain sculptor Henry Moore and LS Lowry.

A painting of a Kent beach by Sir Winston Churchill has been sold out at auction for £313,250.

The Beach at Walmer, which was painted in about 1938 and depicts a beach close to Dover, was auctioned at Christie’s sale of 20th Century British and Irish Art.

The vision in the painting, an oil on canvas, is dominated by one of the ancient cannons that still guard the seaward approaches to Walmer Castle.
The work was a gift to General Ismay, his chief military consultant during WWII.

The year after fetching wartime Prime Minister, Churchill was agreed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle in 1941.

He and his family enjoyed while bathing in the sea and the beach was one of his favourite subjects to paint.

Although it is said that Churchill reviled to give away any of his art, family legend suggests he had always promised Ismay a painting.

While visiting Churchill’s studio he choose the Beach at Walmer because, to him, it represented Churchill: position guard on the coast while England played.

RAYMOND Hickey’s studio is full with piles of brushes, books on art and canvases on the walls and desk.

The only difference between him and other artists is that while many others work with their hands, Raymond holds the brush quietly between his teeth.

He began painting that way after a car smash into in south Waikato in 1962 left him a tetraplegic.

The Howickian has been a member of the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists for 11 years and has just taken out Bruce Hopkins monument Art Awards.

Painting with a brush in your mouth sounds bizarre; the 69 year old told the times.

“But it is what is in your head, not your mouth, that is important.”

His second placing was goes an abstract work called Cosmic Clash.

Raymond has entered the awards some times before, winning several places, as well as first back in 2009.

In spite of his success, Raymond wasn’t excessively confident going into the competition.

He says, It does not always work out with the judges. They are a peculiar bunch, a bit like cricket umpires.

He already has a name as one of Britain’s biggest music artists.

Now Robbie Williams has covered his status in a different way by revealing a talent for painting.

The 37 year old star said, fans on his official blog that he had taken up his new hobby in between promotional duties with take that.

And he yet posted some examples of his work for his followers to see.

“In our down time, which has not been much, I found I really like painting of course I then had to revolve my whole garage into ‘art club‘, ” Robbie Said.

“My favorites i will locate on T shirts in the name of my granddad Jack Farrell what do you think?”

The singer’s works contain a number of slogan paintings, and canvases inspired by Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.

There is also what appears to be a representation of Robbie as a child wearing the make up from his Let Me Entertain You music video, and one of the late British comedian Marty Feldman.

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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee‘s painting presentation has generated a whopping Rs 92 lakh in two days and two more days are still to go.

A particular painting alone fetched a stunning Rs 12 lakh and there is demand for more.

“Some orders are coming, all paintings are sold. I got another order,” said Mamata Banerjee.

The art buzz has hit supporting corridors too, with Mamata Banerjee’s paintings selling like hot cakes.

“The reaction has been overwhelming, people from all walks of life are showing interest,” said Gallerie 88 owner Supriya Banerjee.

The paintings start at Rs 50,000 and 44 of 98 paintings are sold out already. With her efforts as a leader to help her party rotating successful, it is something to see if this response is a reflection of her mass appeal in the upcoming assembly elections.

If the numbers are anything to go by then Mamata Banerjee the leader has surely preserved her position as a require after painter too.

With buyers such as Harsh Neotia, Jai Mehta and Jagmohan Dalmiya to her list, for the resistance it is a camouflaged entry of corporate moneybags in the election process.

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