Garden drawing competition

Garden BirdWatch Drawing Competition | BTO

Love birds? Love drawing? This summer project gives families a great reason to watch garden birds together, and the chance to win a pair of compact binoculars for the best garden bird drawing! Garden BirdWatch is a scientific project that monitors birds in gardens, but it’s also a fun activity for families to do together. The project involves watching, counting, drawing and writing, and is open to children aged 5-11.

Watching, counting, drawing and writing for families with children aged 5-11

First prize: Opticron Savanna 8x23 compact binoculars (RRP £89)

The bird survey

1. Make a list of your garden birds each week

You can choose a set time to watch your birds, or do it any time, but try to spend the same amount of time each week. You can also count the maximum number of each species you see together. See below for instructions, a log sheet, and a bird ID guide.

Parents: you can talk about what birds you expect to see. Why do you think you see more of some kinds of birds? What foods do they like to eat?

2. Register for GBW and input your sightings on our website

Parents: you'll need to register for a GBW account on our website. These records will go into the important Garden BirdWatch national database, so you’ll be helping with scientific research!

GBW is an ongoing project, so if you like it you can continue helping with our research by carrying on after the end of the summer.

Runner-up prizes: Gardman Paint Your Own feeders

The drawing competition

1. At the end of August, draw a picture of one of your garden birds

Look at your counts and choose the bird you saw most often, or the bird with the highest counts (but it's ok if you just pick your favourite!)

You could also make your counts part of the picture, or draw your and your family birdwatching.

If you love writing, write a sentence alongside your picture telling us what you saw and why you enjoyed it.

2. Share your picture with us by Sunday 6 September 2020

Parents, send the picture to us on Twitter with the hashtag #SummerGardenBirdWatch, or email gbw [at] bto.org with the subject Summer Garden BirdWatch Competition. Please include the child's first name and age, the full name of the Garden BirdWatch account holder, and permission to publish the drawing and child's name and age. You can, optionally, also include photos of your family birdwatching together.

Our favourite drawing will be published on our website and will win a pair of Opticron Savanna compact binoculars (RRP £89). Ten runners-up will receive a Gardman Paint Your Own Feeder, a wooden feeder you can decorate with non-toxic paint and hang in the garden.

Download resources

Download

Summer Recording form (PDF, 0.4 MB)

Use this sheet to keep track of your observations throughout the week, before submitting them online.

Download

Garden visitors (PDF, 1 MB)

A list to help you identify the birds you see in your garden

Terms and Conditions

Read the full terms and conditions for the prize draw (PDF, 72.45 KB)

Young Botanical Artist Competition 2022: Call for Entries

30/6/2022

There's a NEW Botanical Artist Competition for Young Botanical Artists - and this is about the Call for Entries.

The Young Botanical Artist Competition 2022 is being sponsored by Dr Shirley Sherwood in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

We believe there is significant talent among the 16-25 age group with a wealth of exciting work to be uncovered. This is a crucial moment to engage with the ever-growing genre of botanical art – the scientific capacity of botanical paintings and drawings to document plants and fungi is particularly vital in contemporary society as we work to preserve our planet’s biodiversity.

[ UPDATE: The Deadline for Entries has been extended to 30 April 2023 - see my UPDATE post UPDATE: Young Botanical Artist Competition - deadline extended ]

Summary of who/what/how to enter

Below is a summary of the "need to know" facts about the competition for those interested in entering. This covers:

Details of who can enter and what they can enter
Selection and judging
Prizes

PLUS Resources on this website

There are a few very relevant matters which are missing at the moment (eg entry form) - but I'm sure this will be fixed quickly.

Who can enter?

The competition is open to budding botanical artists aged 16-25.

There's no definition as to the date for defining that age but, in competitions of this sort, it's conventional for the deadline for entries to be the date limiting age.

What can you enter?

You can enter artwork which is

two dimensional only (eg drawing, painting, print)
with a fixed size of either A4, A3 or A2 (Here's a handy tool for identifying these A sizes in terms of metric measurements)
representative and in a botanical art style
about trees, leaves and anything that exists in between.

Can I enter a piece that is off-theme?
No. Whatever your artwork is, it must have some connection with trees.
It could depict something as large as the entire tree or as small as a leaf bud. You could also choose the fruit, a decaying leaf, a branch, the moss-coated trunk or any other element that inspires you, provided it relates to trees.
If the judges don't see any relation to the theme of the competition, your piece will not be considered.
Also, make sure to do some background research on your chosen tree- it may not be classified as one!
Young Botanical Artists FAQs

Media

There is no criteria or limits re. media - except that photography is not allowed.

Can I use digital media?
Yes. You can use any form of artistic media, with the exception of photography. All that we ask is that it's in a representational botanical art style.
Young Botanical Artists FAQs

Deadline for entries

[UPDATE] You need to submit entries by 30 April 2023 at the latest.
(PREVIOUSLY the deadline was 30 November 2022).

The convention with art competitions is that means up until midnight on the date identified unless another time is specified.

Digital entries (file details)

It's very clear the competition expects entries to be digital - but it currently says nothing about the format and size of the digital image e.g. resolution, pixel size and file size.

Entry Form

The Notice of the Competition includes a large ENTER NOW button - but I'm having trouble locating:

Terms and Conditions
Privacy Policy / Data Protection statement

I'll update this blog post when this has been fixed.

How will the artwork be selected?

There are two usual elements to selection:

who does the judging
the criteria they use for making a selection.

In this instance there is also a third - two age based categories for the final selections.

Age-based selection

Selection of artwork from digital image submissions by 10 artists will be created for each of two age groups:

16-18 and
19-25)

So that's 20 artists in total who will be shortlisted.

UPDATE: Artists who turned 26 between November 30th 2022 (our original competition deadline) and April 30th 2023 are still eligible to apply.

Who are the Judges?

Artwork submitted to this competition will be judged by a panel of esteemed judges including:

revered contemporary botanical artists
Kew’s gallery curators and program leaders.

Winning entries will be announced on 30th June 2023.

What is the criteria for selection?

The judges will be looking for botanical artworks that represent their subject creatively, but with scientific accuracy.

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The Prize

Prize Money

Winners will receive prize money as follows:

Overall Winner (1 per category): £750
Highly Commended (2 per category): £250

A People’s Choice Artist will also be chosen during the course of exhibition by visitors.

These artists will also receive an art supplies bundle worth £100, supported by Seawhite of Brighton.

Will I make profit from sales if my work is printed on to merchandise?
No. All profits from merchandise produced by Kew in collaboration with the YBA competition, and using artworks submitted to that competition, will go to the Kew Gardens charity. We will contact all winners whose work will be produced in merchandise to gain authorisation prior to any production. Should anyone wish to buy the shortlisted artworks displayed in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery, the proceeds will of course go entirely to the artist.
Young Botanical Artists FAQs

Young Botanical Artist 2022 Exhibition

There is to be an Exhibition of all the 20 selected artworks - from OCTOBER 2023 onwards - at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery. (Changed from April 2023)
I assume this will be in Gallery 6 which is where the botanical art exhibitions from Shirley Sherwood's collection are normally held.

Shortlisted artists will also receive a complementary family day pass to Kew Gardens and the gallery space for the purpose of seeing the exhibition

Some of the winning artworks will be reproduced in merchandise available for sale at The Shirley Sherwood Gallery shop and in online retail outlets. (Typically this takes the forms of cards and prints and sometimes other items)

I can't see anything as to licensing arrangements. However while the former must be covered, it's unlikely that there will be any financial reward for the artists whose artwork is chosen for reproduction.

Resources on

this website

On this website you can find various resources to help get you thinking about trees, leaves and everything inbetween.

You might want to take a look at:

the page about How to draw and paint trees and leaves
the page about Video TIPS: Drawing and Painting Trees and Leaves
various blog posts since 2015 about:
- trees
- leave

PLUS there is also a range of relevant and related information within the EDUCATION and BOTANY sections.

These all include artwork by a variety of artists which you might find stimulate your thoughts around choice of topic, design and composition and which media to use.

We invite you to take part in the drawing competition dedicated to the birthday of the Olympic Bear :: Krd.ru

County News Feed November 20, 2021

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The administration of the Karasunsky intracity district of the city of Krasnodar, together with the MAOU DO TsDTiI "Spring", holds a drawing competition dedicated to the birthday of the Olympic Bear (19December 1977).

Children aged 7 to 18 years old (the age of participants is determined as of January 1, 2021) who are students and pupils of institutions and organizations, regardless of departmental affiliation, located on the territory of the Karasun district, can take part in the competition.

The competition is held in three age categories:

1st category – 7-10 years old;

2 category - 11-13 years old;

3 category - 14-18 years old.

The competition is held from 11/22/2021 to 12/17/2021:

Stage I from 11/22/2021 to 12/10/2021 - works are sent to the MAOU DO TsDTiI "Rodnik" (Nevkipelogo str., 18/1, daily on weekdays from 9.00 to 14.00, phone 292-14-82, Demina Irina Vladimirovna).

Stage II from 12/13/2021 to 12/15/2021 - work of the Contest jury.

Stage III 12/17/2021 - organization of the exhibition and holding the award ceremony for the winners of the competition.

Author's works are accepted for participation in the competition with the obligatory indication of the name of the work and the author (full name, age), as well as full name. teacher and the name of the institution, A-Z or A-4 format, framed or framed.

By submitting a work to the competition, the participant guarantees that he is the author of this work, and also, in case of passing to the final stage of the competition, submits the work to the exhibition.

The winners and prize-winners of the competition are awarded with certificates of the head of the administration of the Karasunsky intracity district of Krasnodar and prizes, the best works will be placed in the administration of the Karasunsky district, and also exhibited on the social network Instagram karasun_info and on the website krd.ru.

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IGPOTY International Garden Photographer of the Year 2019 Photo Contest

Opening: February 20, 2019
Application date: until 31 October 2019
Entry fee: 4 singles - £12, portfolio - £25
Awards: £250, £500, £2,000, £7,500, medals, publications and exhibitions

The International Garden Photographer of the Year is the world's leading photography competition and exhibition specializing in horticultural, plant, floral and botanical photography.

Photo contest organized by Garden World Images Ltd., in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The main photo exhibition takes place annually in Kew, tours - in the UK and around the world.

The competition is open to everyone, anywhere in the world. Photos do not need to be taken within a certain year. There is no distinction between professional and amateur photographers.

Photo projects

Black and white
Art macro
Still life

Youth Category

International Young Garden Photographer of the Year

Special Awards

Captured in Kew
Our Oak Celebration
European Garden Photography Award
Gibraltar Green
Green Gorge
Spirit of Trauttmansdorff

Portfolio

Portfolio

Photo Competition Website: https://igpoty.