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which includes most of Luzerne County, Scranton and parts of Colombia, Carbon and Monroe counties. The contest was sponsored locally by The Times Leader, Go Lackawanna and WVIA. The work he entered, titled Bygone, will go on display Tuesday in the Cannon Tunnel, which links the offices of U.S. Representatives with the Capitol Building, and will be exhibited for one year. On Tuesday, he will travel to Washington D.C., for an unveiling and private meeting with 11th District U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Hazleton. Wood, who just finished his junior year at Wyoming Valley West, said he has been drawing “since (he) could hold a crayon,” and he spent most of a shortlived stint in tee-ball drawing in the dirt, but he is now working to broaden the breadth of his artistic experience. Even at 17, the variety of works he has produced is impressive. “Everyone in the arts that’s gotten acquainted with Zach said he’s got it,” his father, Mark, dotes. The works he pulled out Friday included a notebook packed dozens of pages deep with fantastic 2-inch-tall cartoon creatures of his imagination, to psychedelic landscapes to prelimi-
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Works in budding artist Zachary Wood’s portfolio show the breadth of the 17-year-old’s abilities. Wood, of Edwardsville, won the Congressional Arts Competition in Pennsylvania’s 11th District. One of his works will be displayed at the Capitol for a year.
nary experiments in watercolor landscape painting. Cartooning has always been Wood’s first love – his dream is to work for Disney or Pixar Studios – but the painting selected for the competition is anything but a cartoon, even if Gumby makes an appearance. Bygone, a black-and-white charcoal pencil drawing, depicts a still-life of toys from a not-sodistant past – a Gumby doll, a
kazoo and a wooden top among them – in near photo-realistic detail. Particularly impressive is the glass coke bottle at the center of the image. The translucence Wood captures in the bottle is even more astounding given that the image was his first attempt at a truly realistic style. Wood completed the drawing under the direction of his private art teacher, Joel Carson Jones,
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with whom he has studied for the past year. “He wanted something complex, to see what I could actually accomplish,” Wood said. About 210 hours of work later, he had Jones impressed. “It usually takes people considerably longer to really grasp that control over the media,” Jones, of Plymouth, said. “So I consider myself just as fortunate to have him as a student as he is to have me as an instructor.” “He’s extremely disciplined, driven and dedicated to his artwork,” he added. “I believe he has the strength to succeed in whatever direction he chooses to go with it.” Wood is already taking steps towards becoming a professional artist. He is one of the youngest members of the Wyoming Valley Art League, and has had 50 signed prints of Bygone made; he has sold 13 so far. But that doesn’t mean he’ll stop making drawings for his friends, school or anyone who may be interested. “It’s what I’m going to do,” he said. “So the more you give me, the more practice I get.” Zachary Wood lives in Edwardsville with his father Mark and mother Diane.
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