PAINTING COMPETITION

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 27

PAINTING COMPETITION

THE picture of the squirrel babies in their tree-top cradle was responsible for a record number of entries and a high standard of work. The competition has been won by Betty Johanson, Weymouth, whose painting is a delightful study in excellent taste and finished with a sepia mount. Betty has paid particular attention to the shading with very happy results, and her orange flowers nestling among the foliage stand out vividly against the light blue sky. Mother Squirrel is depicted in a smart frock of saxe blue, while her apron, like the pillow and quilt, is finished in Chinese white.

A special prize has been won by Walter Pearce, Grey Lynn, for originality and detail work. This Sunbeam has carried out a novel scheme in tempera colours with a clever cloud effect above the steeple. The squirrel babies nestle snugly beneath a bright patchwork quilt, while Mrs. Squirrel’s apron is lightly patterned in red. Worthy of special mention is the work of Joyce Ludlow, Ponsonby, who has painted in some realistic clouds and a gleam of orange sunset. Ada Wilkins’s picture is delightfully quaint, and Mrs. Bquirrel looks well content in her pink frock and old-fashioned bluets prigged apron. The results are as follow;

First Prize: Betty Johanson, Weymouth, via Manurewa (aged 11).

Special Prize: Walter Pearce, 51 Sackville Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland (aged 15). Highly Commended: Joyce Ludlow, Ponsonby; Ada Wilkins, Mt. Albert; Mary Clark, Grey Lynn; Olwen Harding, Remuera; Lucy Crooks, Otahuhu j Leslie O'Callaghan, Kaikoura; Audrey Seddon, Hamilton; Edna Cayless, Auck-

land; Betty Sinclair, Mount Eden.; Joan Wilkins, Jessie Milne, Birkenhead; Colin Mackie, Devonport; Moira Clouston, Gisborne; Jack Montague, Thames; John Wood, Glen Eden; Ruth Thompson, Mount Roskill; John Jamison, Mount Eden; Isobel McSporran, Otahuhu; Mary McLeod, Takapuna; Gladys Mole, Frankton; Joan O’Brien, Avondale; Dorothy Law, Herne Bay; Margery Nicoi, Devonport; Christine Thompson, Mount Albert; Alec Lamond, Onehunga ; Rosa Heighton, Ponsonby; Frances McKenzie. Whangarei; Kathleen Ricketts, Takapuna; Margaret Anderson, Mount Eden; L. Smith, Otorohanga; John Sexton, Takapuna: Tess McGlynn, Taumarunui; Mary Cumming, Ellerslie; Marjorie Lewers, Epsom; Jean Farquhar, Dominion Road; Mary Grattan, Mount Eden; Jean Marbeck. Green Lane; Lionel Collard, Henderson; Viola Thompson,' Takapuna; Phyllis Miller, Otahuhu Joan Cuming, Waiuku; Grace Beer, Remuera; Doris Adolph, Rotorua; Joan Nalder, Devonport. Commended: Louise Porter, Dominion Road; Nancy Waller, Manurewa; Connie Andrews, Mount Albert; Lorna Maxwell, Thames; E. Couper, Grey Lynn; Zena Wilton, Ngaruawahia; Victor Taylor. Grey Lynn; Dolores Pearn, Northcote; Charlie Scott, Thames; ina Ludlow, Ponsonby; Rosie Evans, Birkdale; Dorothy Ferguson, Remuera; Tom Rowan, TeAwamutu; Gertrude- Rae Parry, Dominion Road; Eva Drew, Edendale; Eric Jenkins, New Lynn; Lois Brausch, Ponsonby; Lloyd Scott, Thames; Florence Pratt, Grey Lynn; Ken Brookfield, St. Heliers Bay; Alda Burke, Edendale; Margaret McKeating, Mount Albert; Alice Williams, Herne Bay; Beulas Knowls, Edendale; Joan Makinson, Hikurangi; Olwyn Molesworth, Ngaruawahia; Bernie Thompson, Morningside; Ewen Cameron, Dominion Road; Sylvia Hughes, Huntly; Margot Hogben, Parnell; Ellen Johnston, Thames; Lilian Gibb, Grey Lynn; Peter Kirby, Auckland; Jack McDermott, Grey Lynn; Betty Anderson, Mount Eden; Mavis Mail, Morningside; Joyce .Gilbert, Epsom; Dorothy Munro, Devonport; Stewart Robinson, Mount Eden; Evelyn Stow, Ngaruawahia; Lennis May Henderson, Rotorua.