HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-05-27, Page 30PAGE 30. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987.
Entertainment Pig art wanted
at Pork Congress
Lovers of art and admirers of
pigs have a chance to combine their
interests in the annual “Pig Art”
competition as part of the annual
Pork Congress at the Stratford
Fairgrounds from June 23-25.
Anyone may enter the Pig Art
Competition, but the entry must
depict some aspect of the pork
industry.
This year the Committee have
again added to the competitions,
the Fine Art Humour -- 17years
and over. Cake Decorating along
with other classes of Fine Art,
Children’s drawings, Model Ori
ginal and Model Preformed, Stit-
chery, Photography, Quilts and
Poetry will again be included. One
entry per class is allowed this year.
The Pig Art is judged on
Monday, June 22 and the top three
winners in each class of 17 and over
will be sold at a Public Auction on
June 23 at the PigNic. All other
entires may be bought by silent
auction on Wednesday and Thurs
day. The Pig Art Competition is a
fun part of the Ontario Pork
Congress, with approximately 200
entries received each year.
Obtain a set of rules and
Museum sells bricks
regulations from Ontario Pork
Congress, Box 61, Stratford N5A
6S8orcall519-625-8811 andput
together a Pig Art entry for the
Competition.
Phone 357-1630 for 24 hour movie information
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Playing from Friday to
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Showtimes: Fri.&Sat.at
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Jason Lucio, a part-time resident of the Londesboro area, shows off the impressive array of trophies his
carved duckshave amassed in his first year of carving. The year was capped off last month by his winning a
world championship.
It is always fun to be a part of a
large and challenging local project.
That is exactly the opportunity the
Friends of the Museum are
offering to the community over the
next few months.
Their aim is to raise $10,000 to
help with the costs of the new
building.
The bulk of the money will come
from the same of the building
blocks which will cover the outside
of the structure. There are 9,000
exterior blocks, to be sold at $5
each. Purchase price of these
blocks is entirely tax deductible,
and purchaser’s names will be
listed in an owners’ book, on
display at the Museum.
Sales promise to be brisk, as
there are already several orders for
blocks. Supporters can buy one,
two or one hundred - as many as
they like.
Love of art and nature combined
Teenager carves a career
BY KEITH ROULSTON
It’s been quite a year for Jason
Lucio, the 16-year-old son of artist
Larry Lucio, a part-time resident of
Hullett township near Londesboro.
A year ago carving was just a
hobby for Jason, something he had
taken up one day after he picked up
a piece of fir fence post and carved a
loon. He’d read some books on
wildlife carving his father had
bought and that got him started.
His father liked his work and
bought him some better tools and
he was off.
His next project was a W.ood
Duck. He sent it to the Buckhorn
Wildlife Art Festival last August
but it got lost by the courier
company and arrived too late for
official entry. The judges were so
impressedwith the work he was
awarded a prize anyway.
That was just the beginning. He
was voted the top junior carver at
the London Sportsman Show in
February and in March won first
prize in the amateur division at the
Canadian National Decoy Contest
in Toronto, ^long the way he won
first place in the junior division at
London’s Western Sports Fair and
two honourable mentions at the
Canadian National Woodcarving
Show in Toronto.
But that was all preliminary to
his entry in the 1987 World
Championship Wildlife Carving
Competition in Ocean City, Mary
land in April. There his wood duck
carving won first prize and also
won for him the A. Danner Frazer
Memorial Award for the best
carving in the world champion
ships by a carver under 18. In
addition his Mallard Drake won
first prize among Mallard carvings
and was third among all marsh
ducks. The award would have been
higher, his father Larry says,
except that it wasn’t quite finished
and if it had been chosen first, the
judges would have been criticized
by the tough, knowledgeable
competitors.
The prize winning Wood Duck is
housed for a year in the North
American Wildfowl Arts Museum
on the grounds of Salisbury State
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lard however, shows the quality of
Jason’s work. At first glance, from
a distance, the detailed carving on
the feathers and delicate painting
make one swear the duck is covered
with real feathers. One has to touch
the duck to be sure it is indeed
wood.
The Mallard Duck took about
two and a half months to complete.
Jason carves about four hours a
night after he has completed his
grade 11 school work, then spends
as much time as he can on the
weekends. He does take time now
and then to go out with friends but
in all he’d “rather be carving’’.
This kind of carving is an artistic
outgrowthofwildlifedecoys. In
fact, when the ducks are judged, of art and his love of the outdoors,
they are placed in water and must
float to precisely the right depth for
the breed of duck and in just the
proper position a real duck would
float in if it were posed the same
way. The ducks are hollowed out
and made watertight with a sealed
bottom.
The work obviously takes a lot of
patience, much more patience than
a 16-year-old normally posesses.
Patience is something, his father
says, Jason has always had. He’s
alsoan excellent fisherman, bring
ing in some of the finest catches
around.
His choice of wildlife carving
came naturally out of both his love
The Lucios have spent a lot of time
in the Hullett Marsh south of
Jason’s grandfather’s country
place near Londesboro. Jason’s
patience also pays off in long
sessions in a duck blind in the
marsh while they wait for birds to
come close enough for close study.
In addition he’s travelled to the
Metro Zoo in Toronto and other
places like the Courtwright Centre
to see birds close up.
This love of art and wildlife runs
in the family. Larry has done some
wildlife painting, (he donated a
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