San Antonio Rodeo Art

Sophomore, Junior, and Senior year of highschool i participated in San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo- Student Art Contest. Hundreds of students submit a piece of art in hopes of getting in the top 25. Every fall many students and I would spend hundreds of hours on our pieces, hoping the long hours and hard work would earn us a spot in the top 25. God blessed me with such an incredible art teacher who helped me in so many ways as I struggled to meet my deadlines. Also, I have to give credit to God. He is my everything and through the weeks of being sleep deprived, stressed, and emotional, He is the one that held me together. I can do all things through him who gives me strength. (Phil 4:13)

None of the pictures are for sale since they have been auctioned off and I no longer have the right to sell them.

Sophomore Year

This picture took me approximately 120 hours to complete it. The medium is prisma color. The picture is 18" by 12". This was my first drawing using prisma color.This picture was a lot of fun to do but i learned a lot about patience and endurance.

Junior Year

This picture is of the world famous rodeo clown Leon Coffee. This project started out as my most stressful project ever. I was extremely late in finding a photo to draw and time was not slowing down. My teacher had said she would like someone in the class to draw Leon Coffee. The next day I was talking with my mom and mentioned what my teacher had said. Well, my mom took that idea and ran with it. Somehow she managed to get a hold of Leon and get permission for me to meet him and take pictures before a rodeo in Uvalde. At first I was frustrated because I did not want to wait to get the picture because I was already so behind. But since i could not find another picture I waited for the rodeo in Uvalde where i took this picture. I am so glad my mom did that for me. This was such an awesome picture to draw and I would not have had it without my mom's help.

This picture is also done in prisma color and took me 170 hours to complete. I remember the first thing on starting coloring was a green circle on his arm. The circle took me well over three hours because I was so nervous that I was going to mess up. Thankfully, I sped up a little bit after that but still was probably the slowest artist in my school. The size of this drawing is 11.5" by 15". Out of the three of the rodeo pieces, this one was the most fun for me because I love the challenge of drawing people more than any other object.

Senior Year

This drawing is also done in prisma color and took me 210 hours to complete. The drawing is 16" by 11.5" This by far is the longest i have ever spent on a single drawing. My dad took this picture of two cows on my grandma's farm. Finding a picture for this project is one of the most stressful parts of this process and I was very fortunate that my dad had many pictures of our cows.