Our Holiday Painting Contest.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 43, 20 February 1935, Page 20

Our Holiday Painting Contest.

SOME BRIGHT PICTURES RECEIVED

Painting competitions have usually proved popular in the Budget, and the seaside holiday contest was no exception to" this rule, many nicely mounted and brightly coloured pictures finding their way to this office. In the junior section Alcwyn Crossman deserves special mention for his painting, which was remarkably, well done for a seven-year-old. Alcwyn remembered a point which most other competitors missed, and that was to paint reflections in the waters. Roma Brown's, too, in this section was very suitably and prettily coloured. '

In'section B the four prize • winners' work was of a very high standard indeed, Pat Feather's daintily tinted picture being about the bestl Jacqueline Irwin, and Allan Wilson submitted excellent work, both being very careful of the shading in sea and sky. Peter, McNaught, too, must be congratulated as the youngest prize winner in this section. Several people mistook part of the clouds for the sun, • and others, too, painted a strip of sand from the cliffs which the artist had really intended as sea. However, all the work was neatly and carefully done, and the prize and certificate winners are to be congratulated.

The eight half-crown prizes were awarded this week as follows: — . Section A (11 years and under). —Roma Brown, 5, Campbell Street, Hawera, age 11; Prudence Philcox, G, Crescent Road, Parnell, age 10; Nancy Carter, Seabrook Avenue, New Lynn, age 10;' Alcwyn Crossman, 12, Walsall Street,,Avondale, age 7. Section B (over 11 and under IS). —Peter McNaught, 40, Richmond Avenue, Grey Lynn; Pat Feather, Walker Street, Wailii, age 15; Jacqueline Irwin,- Greenliithe, age 10; Allan Wilson, 114, Main Highway, Ellerslie, ■ ago 14. Certificates of merit have been awarded as follows:—BLUE: Nola Boyle, Madge Parkes, Pam Henley, Willow Maeky, Alison Archey, Winnie Hannah, Athalie McCarr, Audrey. Matthews, Gloria Sine!', Joan Wilson, Marie Vickerman, Bobby Leese, Mavis Grove, Nancy Parkes, Venice Hemmingsen, Joan Aicock, Frances Whale. PINK: Audrey ami Bernice de Berry, Clara Nancye Lenny, A. L. Laidlaw, Nancy Robertson, Aroba Flaxman, Olive Hall, Yivienne Hamilton, Marjorie Eustace, Alan Gilbert, Desmond Hill, Margaret Smith, Ada Hawken, Reggie Glen, Keith Jackson, Ellis Smith. GREEN: Kathleen Stonex, Ethel Hodson, Joy Heighton, Adair Mac Kersey, Patricia Hood, Mavis Baker, Irene Skinner, Bruce Christmas, Yvonne Fairweather, Gwen Watts, Valda Andersen, Lorna Borland, Thelma Montgomery, Kathleen Lennan. YELLOW: Nina Hollingwortb, Fumeaux Martyn, Monica Matheson, Dorothy Ponder, Kaye Sulley, Thora Barnes, Alice Litton, Sydney George, Mary Wheeler, Norma Turner, Bernice Bryant, Audrey Wise, Betty Bradburn, Shirley Sugden.