Nelson County Middle School student Lailee Pollard won first place in the Central Region Virginia School Board Association Art Contest for her stippling pet portrait titled “Blue.”
Stippling is an art form where a person draws or paints using small dots or specs.
Pollard’s medium was pen and ink. She used different Micron and Staedtler pens. Pollard’s medium is pen and ink, and she used Micron and Staedtler pens to create her artwork.
Pollard, an eighth grader got her inspiration for “Blue” from her seven-year-old Pitbull at home.
“At home, I have a seven-year-old blue Pitbull. He’s gray but my favorite color is blue so, I thought if I do a blue stippling of him, it would be really cute,” Pollard said.
Pollard’s favorite form of artwork is pencil and pen sketching. She said this was her first time doing stippling art.
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Pollard said one of her favorite pieces she’s ever made was a pen and ink drawing of “Michael Myers” from the movie Halloween for her P.E. teacher.
Pollard told Nelson County Times that her favorite phrase she lives by is, “If you mess up, you can just make it into something else.”
“You don’t have to overthink it. I used to always overthink my mistakes and it would just turn out terrible, just make your mistakes into something else,” Pollard said.
Laurie Davis, Nelson County Middle School’s visual art teacher, said that Pollard was one of five girls in her school selected to go to the Governor’s School for the Arts this summer.
Pollard’s piece will be on display throughout the next year at the Virginia School Board Association office in Charlottesville and then move into the Nelson school board office.