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Wow! Okay, for those who don't know. Here recently, my art teacher sent in some of her students' work to be entered into this major art contest.. one that was taking over two-thousand submissions from about 20+ schools. o.O

To give you a little better idea... only two-hundred works were chosen to win. I was one of them! ^^

At first I wasn't even going to attend the awards ceremony. I guess that's because I had minimal participation with this whole thing... all I had to do was make up a name for the work and my teacher did all the rest, so I wasn't exactly all pumped up about getting the results. Well, I got the invitation to the ceremony and my parents noticed me reading over it... results of the domino effect: we ended up going. And not just that, but had to invite my aunt, uncle, cousin, and grandparents. I was in no way against going or even going with family as I enjoy my time with them. I just didn't think much of winning anything for my art. Especially since it was one of my pictures that kind of scares me...

It was a contour drawing (a drawing of nothing but a single line... just one, freakishly long, curvy line...) colored in oil pastels. I really liked the colors I used and all but the eyes are almost penetrating, I guess you could say. Wasn't an intentional quality, but it obviously caught some people's attention.

Anyway, on with the ceremony...

I won a 'Gold Key', which is like the second best thing you could win in this contest! The best thing one could receive from this would be the scholarships, and I'm not talking some measly fifty-dollar bonds. NO. I'm talking eleven-thousand dollar scholarships! Hot-damn, now I have a real reason to put a bit of effort into my work! I mean, I always made it according to my own preferences and all, but this new knowledge provides somewhat of a challenge for me. Now, instead of going for whatever looks good, I'm going to be challenged to think up something new, fresh, creative... break my little mental boundaries for my work and spread my horizons in hopes of capturing the judges' attention and receiving one of those glorious scholarships. ^^ It would be an amazing thing for me to receive such. I really hate knowing that my parents are going to be more or less sucked dry to pay for me to go to college unless I take some sort of action. I would feel horrible if they had to go to such lengths and I just stood back.

... stare Sorry. Getting side-tracked again... Okay so long story short, since I won a gold key, my work is being hung in the museum of art and will later be sent off to New York for further observation. Did you get that? NEW YORK! And to think.. I thought it was just another dinky contest of the local sort. One that might just be another forgettable whatever.

Man.... New York? It's hard to believe. *sighs a happy sigh* ^__^