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Colorful Creatures 2025, International Art Competition


Deadline for Entries: January 20, 2025


Art by award winner, J. J. Galloway
Art by 2024 Best of Show, Laura Green

Submit your color-focused animal and wildlife art.


Vibrancy, color theory, monochrome, gentle hue shifts, ombre effects and dynamic gradients!


Show us abstract expressionist color explosions in the form of animal art!


Wow us with your subtlety or skill with controlling value and tones!


We want to see how you express animal art through color. 



  • All animals and insects are welcome 

  • 2D and 3D artwork, sculpture, original digital art, and photography

  • Any style and genre as long there is an animal in it

  • Show us your skills with color theory or your love of color in general!

  • All entries must be the original artwork of the submitting artist


 

Click or tap the button below to read the full prospectus and submit your application via ArtCall.



 

We embrace realism as fully as abstraction. We love loose brush strokes as much as highly detailed photographs. We live for finely crafted ceramics as much as mixed media experiments. We. Love. Art. 


We are looking for 2D and 3D artwork, sculpture, and photography that falls into a variety of art style and genre categories: Abstraction, Portraiture, Surrealism, Realism, Pop Art, Expressionism, Assemblage, and more! Our mission is to promote wildlife and animal art in both non-traditional and traditional forms. We exist to honor, promote, and uplift it.


As always, art may include more than just animals and insects. Feel free to incorporate humans, objects, landscapes, shapes, space, or anything else. The work just needs to fit the theme, and the focus needs to be on the animal(s).


Be as literal or as creative with the theme as you like. Originality is one of the components we use to score entries.


Awards

Best in Show ($400 cash award)

Overall Runner Up ($200 cash award)

Artivism Award ($50)

Overall Honorable Mentions

Finalists


Categories

Be as accurate as you can with the category.* Category selection helps the judges quickly identify what they are looking at and assess a work appropriately. 


  • Drawing and Pastels

  • Mixed Media

  • Painting

  • Photography

  • Printmaking

  • Sculpture

  • Other Media


Important Dates

Deadline for Entries: January 20, 2025

Notification of Jury Results: February 1, 2025

Virtual Show Dates: February 2025


Image Requirements

You may submit up to 4 images.

For sculpture entries only, you may submit up to 2 additional views per piece. For photographs, please note the make and model of the camera used and whether is film or digital.

  • Accepted File Types: JPG, PNG, GIF

  • Maximum File Size: 5 MB

  • Minumum File Size: 500 KB

  • Minimum Image Width or Height: 1000 px


This is an art competition. Only the award recipients will be in the online group exhibition. 


Artwork for the exhibition will be selected by industry professionals, referred to as jurors. The jurors will vote based on the number of entries, criteria for this event (theme), originality, technique, skill, and quality of work.


Entry Fees (non-refundable)

$15 for 1-2 images

$20 for 3-4 images

All dollar amount listed are in USD.


Copyright

The artist retains all copyrights to their artwork without exception.


 

Click or tap the button below to read the full prospectus and submit your application via ArtCall.



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