Thanks for the comments. I agree with all of you as I really do not like pieces that are extremely busy. Although in the past when I have entered, I have looked at the winners and almost all have included a representation of each group. I noticed that after I sent the red white and blue one in. (without the writing!)


I find this competition extremely challenging. There is one winner that has one dog being shown and of course one would want it to be their breed. So the question is , who would buy a poster if it did not have their dog represented?

I am guessing that is what is separating this from real "art" since the collector may want a poster made by a specific artist. And if that is the case, who's work would you buy even if it had another persons work?

Maybe someone like Ron Burns? It will be interesting to see who AKC picks and adds to their poster collection. They are for sale on their site.