{"id":8658,"date":"2022-04-05T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T22:22:53","slug":"jason-nyampong-2021-second-place-cover-contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/jason-nyampong-2021-second-place-cover-contest-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayson Nyampong, 2021 Second Place Cover Contest Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I find it super satisfying to transcribe images in my head onto paper. And I love viewing art and analyzing the techniques and styles of other artists. It\u2019s also just super fun experimenting with so many colors and materials!<\/p><cite>Jayson Nyampong<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Black Beauty, by 18-year-old Jayson Nyampong of Arlington, Texas, is the second place 2021 Creative Outlook Cover Contest winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nyampong\u2019s preferred mediums, as showcased in the winning piece, are graphite, charcoal and oil paints. Although, occasionally he\u2019ll break out pencils and hopes to learn pastels soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s been drawing as long as he could remember, getting a start in simple portraits and evolving from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI find it super satisfying to transcribe images in my head onto paper,\u201d Nyampong said. \u201cAnd I love viewing art and analyzing the techniques and styles of other artists. It\u2019s also just super fun experimenting with so many colors and materials!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nyampong can\u2019t point to a particular moment of inspiration for \u201cBlack Beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut one thing that I think inspired this art is simply my African heritage and trying to communicate the beauty I find with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Beauty, by 18-year-old Jayson Nyampong of Arlington, Texas, is the second place 2021 Creative Outlook Cover Contest winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":8659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Black Beauty, by 18-year-old Jayson Nyampong of Arlington, Texas, is the second place 2021 Creative Outlook #CoverContest winner.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-contest","category-visual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/files\/2022\/03\/nyampong1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lNi0-2fE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8724,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/creativeoutlook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}