Posted by Susan Richman on April 08 2009 at 12:59:29:
Many homeschoolers in Pennsylvania have entered the Junior Duck Stamp competition. We´ll post any news stories that we find about them winning. Meanwhile, an Ohio homeschooler has advanced in the competition. Here is a selection from the story in the Toledo Blade:
Toledo´s Lily Spang, 16, has repeated as winner of the annual Ohio Junior Duck Stamp art competition, this year with a finely detailed rendering of a drake wood duck.HowardHer acrylic rendering of a drake hooded merganser a year ago finished in the top 10 in judging for the national junior duck stamp competition after winning the Ohio round of judging. Lily is the daughter of Jonathan "Mark" and Sandra Spang. She and her brother, Eli, 14, another budding wildlife artist, are home-schooled.
The teen artist´s wood duck drake, as best of show among hundreds of entries statewide, goes on as Ohio´s best-of-show to the 2009 national competition. Her painting was the unanimous top choice of the panel in the judging, held at the recent 32nd annual Ohio Decoy Carvers and Collectors Show at Westlake, Ohio.