Contests

Art Contest: Inspired by a Story

Who wouldn’t love to be like Eric Carle and Maurice Sendak, creating beautiful illustrations for wonderful stories?  After reading this issue of Cricket, which celebrates some of the amazing artists featured in the Monsters and Miracles exhibition, everybuggy agreed that, for this month’s contest, we would like you to create a work of art inspired by a story you love.

Perhaps you’ll find your artistic muse illustrating a favorite picture book you begged your mother to read over and over when you were little, or a family story your parents tell on special occasions, or a novel that you are reading now. Your art can be in whatever style or medium you choose. You might prefer the collage style of Eric Carle, or the watercolors of Maurice Sendak, or something else entirely. Your illustration can be realistic or abstract, funny or serious, an imaginative fantasy or a warm family scene—whatever you think matches the mood of the story you have in mind.

Everybuggy will be sketching and painting around the Cricket Country mailbox, waiting to enjoy your very best work of art inspired by a favorite story. (Please write a title on the back of your artwork so everybuggy knows which story you are illustrating.)

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    1. Your contest entry must be your very own original work. Ideas and words should not be copied.
    2. If you're 14 years old or younger, your entry must be signed by your parent or guardian, saying it is your own original work, that no help was given, and granting Cricket permission to publish prizewinning entries in the September 2010 issue or on our Web site. If you're older than 14, you must sign your own work, verifying that it is original.
    3. Be sure to include your name, age, and full address on your entry.
    4. Only one entry per person, please.
    5. If you want your work returned, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for each entry.
    6. Incomplete entries cannot be considered. Your entry will be incomplete if you forget to include your age or a signature verifying that your work is original.
    7. Your entry must be received by April 25, 2010.
    8. Send entries to:
      Cricket League
      P.O. Box 300
      Peru, IL 61354