Anyone looking for a 2004 calendar has to look no further.
San Benito High School 2002 graduate Ryan Tremblay is featured
in the 2004 full-color calendar,
”
All About Water: River Of Words Celebrates the Earth’s
Watersheds.
”
Tremblay’s
”
Murky Depths,
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a pastel drawing of fish, is the calendar’s November
feature.
Anyone looking for a 2004 calendar has to look no further.
San Benito High School 2002 graduate Ryan Tremblay is featured in the 2004 full-color calendar, “All About Water: River Of Words Celebrates the Earth’s Watersheds.”
Tremblay’s “Murky Depths,” a pastel drawing of fish, is the calendar’s November feature.
“That’s awesome. I was just having fun (with art),” Tremblay said.
The calendar features 12 months of art and poetry from the annual contest that challenges young people around the world to explore their back yards, school yards, creeks and imaginations.
Tremblay’s drawing depicts two fish in deep water. Light reflecting into the water makes the fish stand out from the water, representing the use of contrast, Tremblay said.
Since graduation, Tremblay has attended Gavilan College working toward his associate’s degree. After traveling on a two-year-long church mission, Tremblay plans to finish up his degree at Gavilan and apply to college at Cal Poly or Brigham Young University.
“Art was more of a hobby at first,” he said. “I’m surprised my art ever won anything.”
Originally entered in 2002 in the International River of Words Environmental Poetry and Art Contest, Tremblay’s drawing won two awards out of hundreds of entries from 14 countries, said John Robrock, art teacher at SBHS.
“A lot of people entered, so I was happy he was picked,” Robrock said about Tremblay.
The two awards Tremblay won were the Ed “Doc” Ricketts Award in the California Coastal Art and Poetry Contest and the River of Word art finalist – among 41 finalists from hundreds of entries across the globe.
Robrock said he thinks Tremblay’s drawing was chosen for the calendar as “kind of a best of” feature.
The calendar costs $14.95 and can be purchased at www.riverofwords.org or www.amazon.com. The calendar identifies Tremblay, his instructor, school name and city.
Tremblay’s pastel was also featured on the title page of the book, “River of Words: Images & Poetry in Praise of Water.”
River of Words was founded as an “international poetry and art contest for children in kindergarten through 12th grade that invites students to explore their own watershed, discover its importance in their lives and express what they’ve learned, felt and observed in words and images,” according to its Web site.
