The Golden Easel art contest

Remember the international art contest I mentioned here? Way back then it seemed like they had such a good plan for covid19 eventualities. The Lviv trip would be at the end of July... or during fall break, if covid19 became an issue. Both options ended up being cancelled. They added to the second stage of the contest, though, and Bogdan and Raia have just finished their work for that. I asked one of their art teachers for help, and she very kindly hosted them for a day at art school to work on the new assignments and get everything ready to send. They had to draw or paint one work titled "The World at My Window" and one other work of their choice, with specific photos of themselves at the easel, and write a short resume.

We have several windows, but they both choose to draw the view from the same one:

First their teacher had them make sketches at home:

Then they worked with her at class:

Bogdan was so excited to work with pastels. When he called me to tell me that he was done, I could hear how pleased he was.

They chose one of his earlier works to send for the other picture, so I went back and found photos of when he was working on it:

Raia made an amazing watercolour in her trademark style:

And she also chose another picture that she had finished earlier:

Ready to send: