AUCKLAND COMPETITIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7, 14 August 1912, Page 13

AUCKLAND COMPETITIONS.

RESULTS OF THE DRAW ING TESTS. The first results of contests held in connection with the Auckland Competition Society's festival for this year havel been ctimouneedi The competitions in music and elocution will commence on the 19th inst.. but the drawing tests have already been held, and the judges, H. Wallace and J. B. Godson (Art Masters in the Technical College), have -submitted the results as follows: — DRAWING SECTIONS. For school children under 12 years of age. A conventional design an one. two. or three colours, to fdl a square, a cirde or a hexagon having a diameter of 8 fiiaclicß:—Fir-( prize: Olive Jolinartoite (Victoria Road), Devonport School; second pi ize. Hilsley Noel Short (Cheltenham Beaeh). Devonport -School: third prize, May Sadgrorc (Calliope Road), Devonport School. Fol - school children in the thir.l standard. Subject: Drawing of plant forms ■from nature. First prize, Ced-rie Reynolds (Buchanan Street), Devonport School; second prize. Margaret Meredith (Albert Roa-1). Devonport School; third jaize, Fiauk Cliapnnn, (VanxhaU Uo.idt. Devonport School. For children under tlir age of 15 years.

Each school to submit the best- ten tinted drawings of plant form from nature, Jone in onlinary aefrool time, by 10 individual children. First prize, a brooze tnviihl and certificate (for ekieh child* -tnd a silver-mounted challenge shield., presented by the late J. G. Trevrtliiek, to be retained by the winning school for the year, and held permanently if won three years in succession; second prize, iramcil certificate. First prize: Devonport District School — Alfied (list, Blanche Alison, Mabel Johnston, Dorts Green, Emily Webster, Richard Fletcher, Dorothy Home, CHive Lloyd, Joyce "White, and Ada Miller. Second prize;—• Devonport School—Gladys Kersell, Kenneth Mauu-lt, I'Tmnia Biildiek, Lyla Bartram, Ecyar Swinnerton, Allan Browne, Clement Woodall, Ethel Gordon Clist, and Ulva Farquharson. For school children over 12 and under 15 years of age. Design to consist of "Illuminated Text," executed in any style and colours, to measure 18in long and Siu wide. —First prize: John Richard Sutton (Remuera), Auckland Grammar School; second prize: Myrtle Bolton (Thames), Waiokaraka School; third prize: Reg. B. Ralfe (Devonport), Devonport School. For children under 15 years of age. A group of objects or geometries! models. The drawings may be outlined or shaded, e—-First prize: Jack Munro (Ponsonby), Aueklaud Grammar School; second prize; Richard S. Fletcher. Devonport School; third prize: Ulva Farqimharson, Devonport School. For bona fide art students. The design to be drawn in bla-.-k ink on white cardboard • size of eard, 10in by Sin. All students at public or private art schools, and ail -bona fide amateurs are eligible as competitors. Illustration of a passage from Shakespere.—First prize: Samuel Harris, Eden Terrace; second prize: John Parsons, Stanley Bay; third prize: i. A. Young, Auckland. For architectural students under 21 years of age. Design for porch, in wood. —First prize: Edward Le Petit, Northcote; second prize: Edward Le Petit, Nortbeote; third prize: Horace Massev, -Mt. Eden.

. allace. who has judged the work in the drawing section since the inauguration to the Auckland Compel;, tions, is in a position to make interesting comparisons in the standard of this year and of previous years. On this occasion he had Mr. J. B. Godson, A.R.C.A., a comparatively recent arrival from I.ondorv, associated with him, and these two gentlemen were approached with a view to securing their opinions of the work submitted to them. “Xn a general way,” said Mr. “I can say that the work submitted was superior in every respect to that sent in in former years.” That remark, he said, applied to all the competitions. There was one competition in which there were ten representative drawings from the various competing schools, and the prize set was superior to anything he had before seen from, children of that age (under 15 years) either here or in the Old Country. In the architectural section the work was a great advance on that of previous years. Though the general opinion of the judges was favourable, it would give them, they admitted, great pleasure to see more competition in the ‘’object drawing” section. Some very remarkable drawings were sent in by children from Standard 111., plant <jra wings from nature. With regard to the figure drawing, the illustration, of a passage from Shakespeare, though the composition was in most cases good, the work in every case showed lack of knowledge of figure drawing. If good work was to be accomplished in this direction, there was no alternative but hard study. Both judges were emphatic on this point. Students must possess some knowledge of anatomy and of the subject. There were facilities for study in the higher branches if students wished to take advantage of them. They would like, in the interest- of art, to see keener interest in the higher classes, and they suggested that there was an opening for competition on the industrial side of applied art, stencilled fabrics, for instance.