All submissions to the show will be on display at the bank’s main lobby through June 27.

“We have so many talented people in Chilton County,” said Betty Cook, a long-time bank employee who is now retired, before announcing the winners.

Lively is one of those talented people. She took lessons from Charlotte Teel, who is her great-aunt and also one of the people responsible for starting the show, now in its 28th year.

Lively said she has painted only one other portrait, of her older son, Kepler. She photographed Dax in a pasture adjacent to their Clanton home, then made a sketch with pencil on canvas. The process took four to six months, she said, from beginning to end.

Blackmon noted that Lively produced the “most charming capture of personality.”

Dax shared in his mother’s accomplishment.

“He was excited when I told him he won,” Haley Lively said. “He wanted to take the ribbon home.”

The first-place winners each received a $100 prize.

The second-place winners (who were presented with $75 each) were Peggy Smith in the Senior Division and Madison Easterling in the Junior Divison, the third-place winners ($50) were Smith and Callie Childress, and Honorable Mention ($25) went to Charlotte Rowland and Dylan Weaver.