Welcome to the 2025 4-H Virtual Art Show!
An online exhibition running all summer long open to all Ontario youth, ages 6-21! Unleash your inner artist by submitting your work of art to our Virtual 3D Gallery.
Who Can Participate?
- Ages 6–8
- Ages 9–12
- Ages 13–15
- Ages 16–21
Art Categories
- Painting & Drawing
- Photography
- Food Art
- Craft & Sculpture
How To Participate?
- You can only submit 1 art piece for each class.
- Take a clear, clutter free image of your finished art piece.
- Submit your art using the online form.
- Deadline to submit your art piece is August 31 at 11:59PM.
- After submitting, please note: it may take up to 24 hours for your art to appear in the gallery.
After The Deadline – August 31, 2025
- There will be a winner for each category per age division.
- Winners will be chosen for each category in every age division.

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, local community architecture.
Create/decorate a cake/cupcake, sandwich art, any type of art using food!
Use any food to decorate and create.
Example to make: decorate a cake/cupcake of a theme (summer, agriculture, cars, animals, flowers, dinosaurs, buildings, use your imagination)!
Virtual 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 HEREn
• 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!