2008 LJSSA Youth Art Contest

Blanca Yañez, a seventh grade student at La Jolla Country Day School, is our Grand Prize winner of the 4th Annual Surf Art Contest sponsored by LJ Shores Surfing Association.  She will receive $100 and has her art work placed on a t-shirt for the LJSSA's 8th Annual Menehune Surf Contest at La Jolla Shores on April 12.

Blanca's art work, along with 25 other finalists, will be on display at the La Jolla Riford Library and Jacobs Annex during the month of April.

Grand Prize Winner

Blanca Yañez

My name is Blanca Yañez; I’m Mexican American and am 13 years old. I live in Chula Vista, and am in seventh grade at La Jolla Country Day School. I have two older brothers, Alex and Alberto Yañez, and a wonderful mother and a fun father. I love to draw and do sports. I’m very energetic and at school I run Track and Field which is a lot of fun. I also paint, sketch, build things, and lots more!

What inspired me to draw this picture was the outdoors. I love tropical places like Hawaii and Mexico. I also wanted some “cartoony things,” so I decided to draw “La Jolla Shores” in a funky way. I know it would look great on a T-shirt and I thank La Jolla Shores Surfing Association for choosing my art piece!