Kids' Fish Art Contest (Ontario)

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This fall is your chance to show off your artistic talents, and learn about Ontario's native fish and their habitats!

  

The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, along with its corporate sponsors, will hold its 10th Annual Kids’ Fish Art Contest from October 1 to December 14, 2012, when our contest species will be the Chinook salmon and the Longnose gar. The winning design will be used for the 2013 Young Angler's Licence. 

The tenth annual contest entry form will be available starting October 1, 2012.

American eel and Brown trout were the official fish of the 9th annual contest. Our judges were looking for artwork that depicted these fish in their natural habitat. The winning designs appear on the 2012 Young Angler's Licence.  

Have a look at the winning entries from the 9th Annual Kids' Fish Art Contest, as announced at the Toronto Sportsmen's Show on March 16, 2012.   

  

Contest Rules 

The Kids' Fish Art Contest is open to all students who live in Ontario and are between grades four and 12.  Here are details on the upcoming 10th annual contest.  (PDF, 955 kb)

Here is what you need to know: 

• Entries will be judged on the quality of the artwork and artistic interpretation.
• All artwork must be the contestant's original, hand-done creation. Photographs, tracings, computer-generated artwork and freehand copies of other people's work will not knowingly be accepted.  We are interested in your artistic interpretation of the fish in its habitat.
• All artwork must be horizontal, 8.5" by 11", without a mat, frame, cover sheet or border.
• Art techniques may include scratch-board, pointillism, acrylics, oil, dry brush, watercolour, pencil crayon, crosshatch, collage, linoleum printing or crayon. Artwork must not exceed 1/4" in total thickness.
• Please - no lettering, signatures or initials on the front of the design. Any artwork with such markings will be disqualified.
• Only one entry per student will be accepted.
• Entries must be postmarked no later than December 14, 2012.

This is what you need to include: 

• a completed entry form (Download Contest Entry Form here in October) -- NOTE:  For best results we recommend that you save the entry form to your own computer for viewing and printing. Windows/Linux users: right-click on the link and select your web browser's save option; Mac users: hold-click on the link and select your web browser's save option.) 
• the artwork
• a one-page essay about your fish (Chinook salmon or Longnose gar), its habitat, and how to protect it for future generations.  Please include your name and address on your essay.

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