Clarification/Follow-up by CeeBee2 on 09/25/05 4:09 pm:
No, don't trace something and submit it for the art show. I have a better idea. Let's try something.

Art doesn't have to look anything like a real thing like a horse or a person or a cartoon character. Here's what I would do. I would get some 8-1/2"x11" construction paper - white, cadet blue, black, red, green...then buy some colored chalk. I would break a piece of white chalk in half and use the side of it to make swirls on a vertical piece of construction paper. Maybe the swirls would be a wide spiral at the top of the page that narrows down to a point at the bottom of the paper. Practice until your spiral looks like a tornado cloud and you get the feel of it of how the side of the chalk makes swirls.

On another piece of construction paper (blue?) with the side/flat part of white chalk make puffy clouds at the top of the paper. Use the light blue chalk to make a swirly lake at the bottom of the page. Use brown or black chalk to make a couple of tree trunks. Use the side of the green chalk to make swirly, bushy treetops. Now, try this again on another sheet of construction paper but vary the color combinations. Clouds don't have to be white, trees don't have to have green leaves, and lakes don't have to be blue.

You want to be original and creative, so go wild and create an interesting chalk picture. When you are happy with the results, spray it all over with aerosol hair spray (a fixative so the chalk dust doesn't come off).

Try something similar with tempera paints (available at Wal*Mart etc.) on some of the same kind of paper. Make different colors of swirls, circles, ovals, long and short lines - intersecting or not, and maybe with one lone blob of a color you haven't used sitting in one corner, or in the middle.

Play around with colors and media. You'll be surprised at what you will do that will be totally YOU.

Clarification/Follow-up by CeeBee2 on 09/25/05 4:40 pm:
BE CAREFUL with the hair spray!! Don't spray so close to the paper that you get it wet. Spray from a distance so just a fine mist hits the paper.