<p>Cool. He gets to be on the cover of a special Crayola box!
[Wisconsin</a> Second-Grader Wins 2012 ‘Doodle 4 Google’ Contest | News & Opinion | PCMag.com](<a href=“http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404563,00.asp]Wisconsin”>Wisconsin Second-Grader Wins 2012 'Doodle 4 Google' Contest | PCMag)</p>
<p>If anyone is from NYC, all of the winning doodles are going on display at the New York Public Library on 42nd and Fifth. I’m not sure when, so check thier website…</p>
<p>I know I will be called churlish, but something about that picture looked off to me. parts look like they were drawn by a talented second-grader, like the pirate and palm tree, but parts had a polished look (the ship, the parrot, and especially the reflections in the water and the sun rays) which frankly, when I first looked at it (not knowing who drew it) had me assuming it was drawn by a far older person. Of course I have nothing to base that on–it’s just what I thought while looking at it.</p>
<p>Actually garland, you are right.
My oldest was especially artistically talented in school even grade school.
If I may be permitted to brag, her talent prompted the art teacher to start a new tradition at her school, of having one graduate having their art framed and hung in the school for posterity.
( as someone who placed 4th in a k-8 regional art contest in 4th grade, yet never had the Crayola 64 piece crayon box, that was poignant)</p>
<p>But comparing her work as a seven yr old to the google piece, also makes me think there was quite a lot of help, even if the artist was unusually detail oriented for someone in second grade.</p>