ALL ABOUT PAINTINGS

Northern Advocate, 21 March 1934, Page 2

ALL ABOUT PAINTINGS

■ GOOD WORK PROM YOUNG WARRIORS CAN YOU MAKE AN “ALPHABETICAL” SENTENCE? ; Dear Northlanders, —No doubt young artists of the Northland are . lopjbing forward to today’s “Advocate,” for it contains the results of the fainting Competition announced on March 7. I was ever so pleased to ; fie«.SQ m£ny entries from tiny people, for six and seven-year-olds as well ■ eights and nines tried for the special prize offered for the “under ten” sectloh., Knowing the impatience of small folk, I am going to ask older £ saffiofsi to wait just a moment while I tell Melba Surgenor, a six-year-old : ,folld(W6r, that she has won the two-shilling prize. The work of this small ;-, was very good. Her Kill was beautifully green, and Dorothy I' May was in a pretty pink frock. So far as the older ones are con:erned, the first prize was won easily .. by Enid Claris, age 11, of Mama, Hikurangi. She dressed up the little ; i girl.iii a bright red dress, with a blue bonnet to set off her rosy cheeks. Dorothy May’s brother wore a black jersey, and “Tuppence” was painted "bfowh. Claudia Warrington, Wha.igarei, aged 14, also received a 2/- • prize. -Modesto Inder, 6 Donald Stre.t, Whangarei, aged 14, captured the remaining - two-shilling prize with a picture neatly coloured. This time the dog was spotted black and white, whilst the girl appears in a blue , frock and -hat trimmed with red. The office boy, who has been reading over my shoulder (a rude practice that I think he really should stop), has . just remarked that if X keep on de ;cribing the frocks in which Northlanders have dressed Dorothy May, i". ’ll be able to get a first-class job as - a society reporter for the ladles’ page! I must confess that <fehe responsj to the original sketch competition was a little disappointing. The cash prize offered was captured by Dawne ; Williams, Tauraroa, who contributed a water colour which was remarkably •good for a ten-year-old. Two cows, resting peacefully in a green meadow was, the subject selected, and she treated it quite well. With teacher’s i -\ guidance and plexity of practice, Dawne should produce some clever sketches by and bye. Claudia Warrington tried hard to express her idea of a wintry ■sea. The pencil sketch showed a stretch of turbulent water, with a lone ’gull winging its way homeward under the lowering sky; in three or four places rays of light shone through rifts in the clouds. No doubt Claudia has’ stood upon the shore in winter and seen the beauty of a stormy sky, ■and, in trying to reproduce this in black and white, she has stirred memories In the mind of at least one who saw her work. lam always pleased to’ see the original work of boys and girls, for, whether good or bad according to the standards of art, original sketches, stories, or poems show that their authors think and have feelings to express, and, as the poet says: “We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; . • In feelings, not in figures on a dial. ’ ’ Naturally we cannot all be great painters or great writers, but by trying to express in picture, story or verse the thoughts in our minds, we may know the joy of creation, and might even add something to the world’s store Of beauty and knowledge. And now for next week’s competition. A novel task has been set Northlanders today, for they are asked to make up a sentence in such a way- that the initial letters of the words used give us the alphabet in correct order. The example given elsewhere on this page will be easy to follow. It’s not a really first class sentence, but that’s because the office boy made it wouldn’t expect anyone who prophesies your Chief becoming a society reporter to do anything clever, would you Northlanders? JJ / I’ni sure you’ll all he able to do Jw Jd'jhiJLr* miles better than he did, and I will Idofc forward to receiving some really, good sentences by Wednesday Kangatira, next. , Northland Tribe.