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 This just in from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department staffer Larry Hodge: If there is a budding young outdoor artist in your family, here’s a great opportunity to provide said youngster both some solid encouragement and the chance to win some great recognition and prizes.
It may be a while before he or she is up to producing work like that of Friendswood, Texas-based artist Mark Mantell, but everything worth doing well begins with practice. Here’s a great way to get just that, and have great fun while at it.
(Note: Mantell is best known for his fine art pieces in the sporting genre, but on commission, produces illustrations like the one shown here … a channel catfish making off with a Black Salty baitfish … for companies in need of logos and the like. For a little inspiration, or to look into procuring a beautiful limited-edition print or original painting for the den or office wall, check out his works at www.markmantell.com.)

ATHENS, Texas — Every student in the Texas division of Wildlife Forever’s State-Fish Art Contest will be a winner.
The annual contest is open to students in grades 4 through 12, and each student who enters the 2008 contest will receive a free fishing lure courtesy of Strike King Lure Company.
But wait. There’s more. The first-place winner in the grades 10-12 division will win $1,000. Second place will be awarded $750, and third place $500.
In the grades 4-6 and 7-9 divisions, first-place winners will receive a $100 savings bond, with $75 and $50 bonds going to second- and third-place winners respectively.
“We hope students will use these prizes to help further their education,” says Zoe Ann Stinchcomb, Texas coordinator of the contest.
But wait. There’s more.
The first-place winner in each grade-level division will receive airfare and lodging at the contest hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to compete in the national competition for Best of Show and Art of Conservation stamp honors.
The prizes and travel awards were made possible by a generous donation from the Toyota Texas Bass Classic.
In 2007, Clayton Bowen of Eagle Lake, Texas, won the Art of Conservation stamp award. Texas led the nation with 580 entries in the contest.
Deadline for entering the 2008 contest is March 31. For rules, entry form and more information, visit the Texas State-Fish Art Contest web page.
For details, check the Web at: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishart
 

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