Massive PENCIL Mural Wins $200,000 ArtPrize

By Alex Ward

PUBLISHED: 14:24 EST, 13 October 2012 | UPDATED: 15:34 EST, 13 October 2012

A stay-at-home mother has won $200,000 (124,450) for her huge 40 foot mural done entirely with pencil.

Adonna Khare, 32, spent more than three weeks finishing off her mural of animals in the gallery as people came to view the artworks in competition ArtPrize at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Ms Khare of Burbank, California, created the 8x35 foot mural in her garage and said the animals reflected her life and the people in it.

Prize for pencil: Adonna Khare sits under her mural, 13x40ft, done entirely by pencil which won the people's choice award and $200,000 in prize money at ArtPrize

She then hung the mural in the gallery for the competition on September 9 and made additions to it as people passed by until it grew to 13 feet high and 40 feet long.

The emerging artist and elementary school art teacher had taken three years off at the birth of her daughter Kinsey who is now three-years-old.

According to theLos Angeles Times she said: I needed a goal, and I wanted to experience ArtPrize.

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Massive PENCIL Mural Wins $200,000 ArtPrize