India Ann is 5 1/2 years old and a K-5 student at Headland Elementary School.   She has been painting since she was old enough to hold a paint brush. At first she was painting on computer paper and all her works exhibited specific use of colors and repetitive patterns. She began painting on canvas boards and from there has begun to work on stretch canvas. She was the youngest competitor at DWAL's Local Color in April of 2009 and again in the DWAL's Expressions of Fall Arts and Crafts Festival in October of 2009 where her work was up against art students in the 1st, 4th and 5th grades. Her third place winning painting is a prophetic work entitled "Day of the Dragons" and this is her explanation of that work:

"The green half circle here (pointing to top right area of the piece) is God and He is playing His trumpet and flutes (pointing to the two green forms, one vertical, and one horizontal) He is making music ( pointing to the various musical notes falling down on the right side of her painting.)  These are people asleep in the lower  right side of the painting (there are three forms  of which one is orange ) She continues..” God is trying to get them to wake up because the floods and fires caused by the Dragons are coming and they will be killed if they don’t wake up and take the path (brown horizontal line) that God has for them to escape.  The yellow in the painting is the  sun light and in the left bottom of the piece, the Sun is setting with the “Fire” starting behind it and the blue along the bottom of the canvas represents the beginning of the flood waters. There is a Cobalt Blue Dragon with a red eye and the Green Dragon.”

India loves to use watercolors, colored pencils, markers and liquid acrylics on anything that will sit still long enough for her to use it!  She loves to take photos with a digital camera and has also entered her photo of her horse "Diego" in Local Color. She lives with her Father and Mother and new puppy “ Dash” in Headland and paints with her "Darlin" (Grandmother) every chance she gets.