After a week of voting and over 3,100 votes, our winners of our latest Pastel Portrait Competition have been selected! The quality and range of entries we have received for this competition has been amazing, we have loved looking at both the highly intricate and detailed portraits to the more expressive, looser styles. It was really difficult to choose the overall winner as all the entries have winning qualities within them. We decided on choosing a portrait which not only showed technical skill but artistic intent. We hope you have enjoyed looking through all the entries and hopefully it has inspired you or spurred you on to enter our next competition!
Jackson’s judging panel have chosen the first prize winner winning a Unison Set of 72 Pastels for Portraits and after one week of voting, the public have chosen their 3 winners who each win their choice of 2 sets of 14 Jackson’s Handmade Pastels. We would like to thank everyone for submitting your work and to those of you that voted for supporting and promoting the artists that entered.
First Prize Winner of a set of 72 Unison Pastels for Portraits
Title: ‘Dad with Thoughts and Tea’
Artist: Benjamin Hope
Everyone has their own way of holding a mug.
Size: 40 x 55 cm.
People’s Choice Winner of two sets of 14 Jackson’s Handmade Pastels
Title: ‘Beano’
Artist: Eilidh Geddes
Medium: 25cm x 35cm pastel portrait of a Staffordshire Bull Terrier drawn with Unison Pastels and Pastel Pencils.
Votes: 250
People’s Choice Winner of two sets of 14 Jackson’s Handmade Pastels
Title: ‘An understanding’
Artist: Jane Van Soest-Smith
Medium: A portrait of Felicity and Boris showing their mutual friendship created using various pastels on 30x40cm pastel mat.
Votes: 206
People’s Choice Winner of two sets of 14 Jackson’s Handmade Pastels
Title: ‘Black Cat #5’
Artist: Yael Maimon
Medium: Soft Pastel on Sennelier La Carte, 16×12 inch
Votes: 169
Our next competition ‘Changing Seasons’ will be launching next week, we will be looking for your depictions of the seasons in water-based media! Keep up to date with Jackson’s Competitions by bookmarking our Competition Calendar.
4 Comments
Hello! I can see the number of votes for my portrait?
Elena Bondarenko.
Hi Elena,
Thank you for your message, I have emailed you the number of votes your entry received. Congratulations again on making the shortlist!
Christine
Thank you!
Congratulations to all the winners!
It was great fun to be a part of….and we live to paint another
day!