Awardees

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A FREE art competition about caring for water.

We are so proud of all the entrants to A Splash of Creativity; the submitted artwork and statements were heartfelt and powerful and each and every participant did an amazing job. Thank you all for doing your part to care for California’s water!

You can find the winning submissions below and can click through for a closer view and to read statements from the artists.

Winners
Brush Pen artwork in vibrant greens on the left fading to yellow on the right. Bright blue water gushes from a sprinkler on the right hitting a red word, conserve, and dripping down the words your water, pooling in the word water. Additional water leaks from the sprinkler, forming a stream that dries up before reaching a dying tree and parched earth on the left. Also on the left, a hand holds a hose spraying water into the word conserve.
Grand Prize | 9th - 12th
Life's Sustenance (2024)
Jodie, Torrance
A bright and happy fish and shark on the left in a clean ocean with a dark and polluted ocean on the right wiht a sad fish and sad shark. Above the water, a smiling water drop with the word bubble "By keeping our water clean we are not only helping ourselves, we are also helping the ocean life. Remember every drop counts - Drip"
Honorable Mention | 6th - 8th
Help Save the Ocean Life (2024)
Valeria, Los Angeles
A red and violet sky in puffy, cloud like brush strokes with five black silhouettes of birds in the upper left and four more in the upper right, all above a blue ocean done in long, horizontal, jagged brush strokes.
Special Recognition | 6th - 8th
The Lonely Ocean (2024)
Mia, Los Angeles
A digital painting of an eye within a cracked brownish, tan background. The inner eye is pink as is its upper lid. The black of its lashes blend with the cracks and with four silhouetted birds above the eye. The iris is a blue and green earth. Water (tears) pools agains the bottom pink lid, and water drips from the eye's lowest point. Words are written on the bottom right: Save Water. Save our Planet.
Excellence in Art | 6th - 8th
Save Water, Save Our Planet Eye (2024)
Arabella, Los Angeles
An alien with a yellow face and wide eyes, along with red eyestalks and an exposed brain, drinks a glass of water from a curly straw. Water fills up their body, organs floating inside, while one three-fingered hand holds a watering can, pouring water over a burning earth. Where the water his the Earth is blue and green an bright. Elsewhere it is grey and dull. Ghosts hover above the earth in gray smoke. The background shows water ripples in dark blue over light blue.
Grand Prize | 6th - 8th
Inside or Out Water is Important (2024)
Tiffany, Los Angeles
Marker-based art in two halves vertically. The left half is in browns with the words Save Water underlined at the top. This half shows a hand holding a brown earth, with a parched landscape and dead trees behind, along with a red sun. The right side has the words Save Lives Underlined with blue and yellow skies and a bright sun. In the foreground a hand holds the matching blue and green half of the earth, and the background is a lush green and blue landscape with thriving trees.
Honorable Mention | 3rd - 5th
Every Drop Counts (2024)
Every Drop Counts, Chico
An infographic in color pencils. At the top Save Water is written in blue with water dripping from the words in an underline. Water droplet characters adorn the top and side of the page with words written out beside them like bullet points. "Water early in the morning or late at night" "Turn off water while brushing your teeth" "Taking shorter showers" etc. On the right a drawing of a red-haired person holding two potted plants, and below that a globe made of water leaking water from a faucet.
Special Recognition | 3rd - 5th
Save Water (2024)
Anelly, Stockton
A watercolor painting. The sky is bright blue with white clouds and an orange sun. Below that is curved landscape in green with three plots of brown land each with numerous flowers. Behind that land on the horizon is a forest of darker green trees. Above it all, in the sky, can be found a native-American woman's face and hands. She has long brown hair and is weeping, her tears falling over the landscape. She wears a feather in a band around her head.
Excellence in Art | 3rd - 5th
Rainfall (2024)
Tlalli, Chico
A brown otter swimming underwater. Colorful fish surround it, and it is framed on the right and left by green seaweed.
Grand Prize | 3rd - 5th
Save Water, Save the Otters (2024)
Clara, Chico
Every Drop Counts
Honorable Mention | 3rd - 5th
Every Drop Counts (2023)
Chloe, Westlake Village
Stream of Beauty
Special Recognition | 3rd - 5th
Stream of Beauty (2023)
Eleanor, Chico
Save Our Water (2023)
Excellence in Art | 3rd - 5th
Save Our Water (2023) (2023)
Raniya, Westlake Village
Save Our Planet (2023)
Grand Prize | 3rd - 5th
Save Our Planet (2023) (2023)
Ivy, Westlake Village
A water color of a woman crying. Her eyes are earths. Her hair on the left is dying leaves. Her hair on the right side is bright, vibrant leaves full of flowers. A hummingbird is feeding from her flowers. Her hands are cupped below her face, a pool of water in her hands. Text over the image reads: "Save Water Save Life. Every Drop Counts"
Excellence in Art | 9th - 12th
Save Water Save Life (2022)
Agnes, San Mateo
A marker drawing on a blue background. A woman stands on the right, her hair flowing to the left, with bright blue highlights. She wears a green shirt and a skirt blowing to the left like her hair, decorated in flowers. Her arms hold a pool of water with fishes swimming. A caption reads: Love, Share, and take Care of earth's water.
Grand Prize | 6th - 8th
Take Care of Earth's Water (2022)
H, Stockton
Watercolor painting with potted succulents on the left in bright green and pink. On the right, a hand pours water into the succulents from a purple container.
Excellence in Art | 6th - 8th
Watering Flask (2022)
Hazel, Visalia
A photo of a mixed media art project on green construction paper. A painted yellow sun in the top left. Wispy cotton ball clouds in the sky. A quote among the clouds: "Food grows where water flows." Below are painted mountains, a house made of cornhusks, with a chimney and sidewalk of lentils, surrounded by trees of pine leaves and snow made of salt.
Grand Prize | 3rd - 5th
Safe Water (2022)
Angelita, Bakersfield
A pen and crayon drawing with an earth frowning. The waters of the earth are filled with various garbage (forks, buckets, cups, etc.). Dolphins wearing red capes circle around the earth. Text in pen reads: We can help. We are dolphins.
Excellence in Art | 3rd - 5th
Untitled (2022)
Midas, Carson
In the top left is a drawing of a dog holding a water bottle with a bubble that says, "Save Water!" Below that, in the bottom center of the page is a marker drawing of a person drinking water from a faucet on the right. Water flows from the faucet, with fish swimming in it, while a hand guides the water. The person is made of water, plants, fish, trees, and earth.
Special Recognition | 3rd - 5th
We Survive with Water (2022)
Jocelyn, Carson
Brown mountain with sparse green plants on the left side. A blue river runs through the center of the picture to the right side, ending at a horizon line half way up the page. Gray shores border the river, with clumps of gray rocks peaking through the water. On the horizon line is a stretch of green grass below more brown mountains. Above the horizon, the sun sets over the river, the sky bleeding up from yellow to orange, to red, to dark blue. Clouds and birds can be seen amid the changing colors.
Honorable Mention | 3rd - 5th
How to Save Water (2022)
Juquila, King City
A blue sky over a dirty, green lake. To the left, a machine (in grey and black) with pipes pulling out water from the dirty lake, and pouring out clean water in a glass.
Featured Entry | K - 2nd
Clean Machine (2022)
Gracie, Chico