Virtual Art Show 2024

Welcome back to the 4-H Virtual Art Show!

The 4-H Virtual Art Show is to celebrate YOU, trying new things, and your love for the arts. Mark your calendars because the 4-H Virtual Art Show is opening June 21st and running all summer long. Submission deadline is August 30th. Explore our 4-H Virtual Gallery below view the gallery! Submit your art piece to have it posted in our Virtual Gallery and have a chance to win a mystery surprise!

Remember to have fun! ?

GUIDELINES

? You can only submit 1 art piece for each class.
? The picture of your art piece must be clear as possible.
? The theme and subject of your art is whatever you choose to create. Communicate whatever you would like within your piece.
? There will be a winner for each category per age division.
? Deadline to submit your art piece is August 30th at 11:59PM.
? We will be opening the voting process to the public following August 30th and will be closing September 8th 11:59PM. Please vote for your favourite of all categories in each age division.

AGES

6-8

9-12

13-15

16-21

Vote For Your Favourite!

The Classes:

? Use any medium (type of materials used): acrylic paint, watercolour paint, oil paint, pencil, pencil crayons, crayons, etc.

OR

Do you like to draw/paint on the computer or want to give it a try!  The world of digital art is growing and this is a great way to dip your toes in!

? Examples to paint/draw: livestock, family, landscape, food, automobiles/tractors, own character, magical animals, architecture

Choose to capture any subject you want!

? Use your phone, camera, or anything available to take a picture.

? Do not hesitate to edit your photos. Sometimes tweaking your brightness, contrast, colours can enhance your photos!

? Examples to capture: livestock, family, landscape, food, automobiles/tractors, architecture, etc.

Choose to create any subject/sculpture you want! It can be abstract (use your imagination) or something that resembles a real life subject.
Seed Art: use any types of seeds (sunflower seeds, bean seeds, other seeds). Create any thing you can imagine!

? Use any medium (type of materials used): water bottles, plasticine, beads, construction paper, paint, flowers, etc.

? Example to create: animals, fruits/vegetables, sea creatures, bubbles, think of something you would want to present to your community.

Create/decorate a cake/cupcake, sandwich art, any type of art using food!

? Use any food to decorate and create.

?Example: decorate a cake/cupcake of a theme (summer, agriculture, cars, animals, flowers, dinosaurs, buildings, use your imagination)!

Virtual Gallery

2024 Gallery

We are waiting for your artwork to fill the gallery!


Resources

• Spring Art: Tulip Painting – CLICK HERE
• Llama Acrylic Painting Tutorial Video – CLICK HERE
◦ Resources – CLICK HERE
• Watercolour Basics and Techniques – CLICK HERE
• ADVANCED – Acrylic Painting Sunlit Meadow Landscape Tutorial – CLICK HERE
• Digital Painting – CLICK HERE
• Digital App that you can download – CLICK HERE
• Colour Theory – CLICK HERE
• How to Draw a Chicken – CLICK HERE
• Norval Morrisseau inspired Art – CLICK HERE

 

• How to Take Amazing Animal Pictures!- CLICK HERE
• Photo Editing – CLICK HERE
• 5 Tips to Improve Your Food – CLICK HERE

• Water Bottle Sculpture – CLICK HERE
• How to make Plasticine Carrot – CLICK HERE
• How to make a Plasticine Dog – CLICK HERE
• Paper Craft Sculpture – CLICK HERE

• How to decorate a cake – CLICK HERE
• How to Make Herb Cupcake Flower Pots – CLICK HERE

• Read – Innovation that Sustains – CLICK HERE
• Read – 5 agriculture technology innovations for farmers – CLICK HERE
• Farmers Are The Original Environmentalists – CLICK HERE

• Cargill improves educational opportunities in cocoa-growing communities – CLICK HERE

 

These resources are very helpful for you to understand art!

How To Look at Public Art