First place winner is Dawn Minto who did "Head of a Young Woman with Touseled Hair" by Leonardo DaVinci
Contest winner Dawn Minton has had no formal art training beyond an inspirational high school art teacher, but, she says, artistic ability runs in her family. “I started doodling and drawing horses as a kid. I sculpted too.”
It took Minton four hours to create her mini-masterpiece using acrylic paint and a fine detail brush. “Sometimes I just used a single hair,” she says.
Blue Nude by Picasso
Honorable Mention, Julie Brown
Honorable Mention,Dawn Minton
Honorable Mention, Jessica Johnson
Fourth Place, Julie Brown
Third place, Diane Hamlin
Second Place, Robin L. Clark-Chisholm
Best 20th Century Modern: Tanya Rachele Rose
Best Impressionist/Post-Impressionist, Carmen DeBellis
Best "Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh, Erica Plyter
Best "The Scream" by Edvard Munch, Rachel Oellette
Noteworthy entry from Belsaly Montalvo
Noteworthy entry from Michael Wood
Noteworthy entry from Andrea VanLuchene
Noteworthy entry from Stephanie Becker
Noteworthy entry from Yoriko Kadono
Noteworthy entry from Tanya Rachele Rose
Noteworthy entry from Andrea VanLuchene
Noteworthy entry from Melissa Wills
Noteworthy entry from Barbara Lee
Noteworthy entry from Carmen DeBellis
First place winner is Dawn Minto who did "Head of a Young Woman with Touseled Hair" by Leonardo DaVinci
Contest winner Dawn Minton has had no formal art training beyond an inspirational high school art teacher, but, she says, artistic ability runs in her family. “I started doodling and drawing horses as a kid. I sculpted too.”
It took Minton four hours to create her mini-masterpiece using acrylic paint and a fine detail brush. “Sometimes I just used a single hair,” she says.
Blue Nude by Picasso
Honorable Mention, Julie Brown
Honorable Mention,Dawn Minton
Honorable Mention, Jessica Johnson
Fourth Place, Julie Brown
Third place, Diane Hamlin
Second Place, Robin L. Clark-Chisholm
Best 20th Century Modern: Tanya Rachele Rose
Best Impressionist/Post-Impressionist, Carmen DeBellis
Best "Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh, Erica Plyter
Best "The Scream" by Edvard Munch, Rachel Oellette
Noteworthy entry from Belsaly Montalvo
Noteworthy entry from Michael Wood
Noteworthy entry from Andrea VanLuchene
Noteworthy entry from Stephanie Becker
Noteworthy entry from Yoriko Kadono
Noteworthy entry from Tanya Rachele Rose
Noteworthy entry from Andrea VanLuchene
Noteworthy entry from Melissa Wills
Noteworthy entry from Barbara Lee
Noteworthy entry from Carmen DeBellis
"Crazy good" is how one of our judges described the extraordinary batch of entries we received for our Mini Masterpiece contest. With jaw-dropping precision and exceptional skill, our readers managed to successfully capture the essence of many of the world's most celebrated paintings on a tiny nail tip. After much deliberation, we’ve awarded the top prize to Dawn Minton of A New Beginning Salon & Spa in Rensselaer, Ind., for her depiction of “Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair” by Leonardo DaVinci.
We have also identified stand-out works in several categories. By far the most popular works of art with our readers were Munch’s “The Scream” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”— we received eight of each. We also divided the entries by historical period and selected winners in these categories as well.
We hope you are as dazzled as we are by the talent you see on display. Our thanks to everyone who entered and made this a fantastic and oh-so-close competition.
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