week of November 1, 2010

This week's Independent newspaper featured articles on both the DAR Poster Contest and Design Ad contest and pictures of student's who won art awards !

Last Friday, several judges from the Lions Club visited our campus to select winners from Trinity to continue in the Vision of Peace Poster contest. Congratulations to Sydney Bassett who was awarded First place and will receive a $100 savings bond. Second place was awarded to Carolyn Albritton and Third place to Mary Conley Teel. They will receive $75 and $50 savings bonds.

To view images of all the student's work for this competition, see the 6th grade page on our class WIKI. I have uploaded a PDF file with images of all the posters.

Don't be surprised if your 6th grade students ask you to donate items to our art class that sound like we are trying to rival the food network show "Ace of Cakes". They may even start using words like gum paste and fondant. There are some special staff at Trinity that will receive our "artwork" for their dedication and hard work to our school!! I am sure we will have lots of pictures and maybe a video or two to share. This should get interesting !!!

7th grade is working hard to develop their rendering skills. We have been learning how to create 3 dimension in our work using value, light and shadow. They drew their hands this week using a view finder. We selected a top 10 from our gallery and will publish these next week on our WIKI. The work will also be on display in the Lobby of Willett Hall through December. We are using all these skills to design a still life painting of a fruit and / or vegetable. We will produce a copy of our painting for a class critique (and for the student's to keep). Our final canvas will be donated to Zoe's on Zelda and sold to our community in January. Proceeds will be given back to Trinity. Our class is raising money to plan a field trip to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

2010 DAR Constitution Week Poster Award Winners !

Sophie Burks (honorable mention), Anthony Singleton (honorable mention), Me (their proud teacher and I also won 1st place Teacher), Carolyn Albritton (honorable mention) and Sydney Bassett (1st place private school division). Honorable Mentions were also given to Allie Dillard and Anna Esco, not pictured.

2010 Montgomery Advertiser Design Ad Award Winners. Abbie Grace Sims (honorable mention), Katie Windham (advertiser award), Mary V Stabler (1st place 4th-6th grade overall winner), Allie Dillard (advertiser winner), Jackson Byrd (2nd place 7th - 9th grade overall winner).

Thanks to students and their families for attending these events !!

7th grade students recently completed their Room with a View project! We voted on the top two works from 1st, 5th and 6th periods. Images of these 6 student's work can be found on the 7th grade page on our art class Wiki. A link is found on the home page of our blog and home page on our art class in edline. We are currently learning watercolor techniques and will move into rendering realistic images of artichokes and lemons in colored pencils, black and white graphite and watercolor at the end of the week thru the following week.

6th grade students are busy working on the Lions Club "Vision of Peace" Poster contest. We will complete our work on Thursday and Lions Club members will judge our artwork on Friday. The winner of the competition at the International level will be awarded $5000.00 !! After this competition we will be using the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain lessons to refine drawing techniques.

Happy Fall !!!

7th grade student work in local art show

Natalie Stanley was our guest artist last week ! She was able to spend time with our 7th grade students demonstrating her art style, showing us images of her work and talking about her inspiration as an artist. She is hosting an art show in her home tomorrow night (Tuesday, October 19, 6-8pm / 9719 Wynchase Circle 36117). Ten of our students work will be sent and sold as a fundraiser supporting Mission to the World. (You may want to contact Natalie 221.9267 if you want to buy your child's art work.) The top 10 were selected by Trinity upper school art students ! Congratulations to the following students: Christina Hogan, Wilson Shanahan, Carly Mattox, Katie Chandler, Mollie Beth Dill, Mary Stuart Goocher, Jake Hemmings, Virginia Reid, Meredith Moore, and Alyssa Clark. We studied both Natalie's style and the work of artist Susie Pryor to develop these very expressionistic images of Montgomery Church steeples. Images of the students work are shown on the 7th grade page of the Art Wiki (a link to this can be found on the main page of our class blog or the art page on Edline).

winners announced for DAR Constitution Week Poster Contest!

You've seen our top 10! Congratulations to Sydney Bassett for being awarded 1st place in the Montgomery County Private School Division !! We also had several Honorable Mentions from Trinity: Congratulations to Carolyn Albritton, Sophie Burks, Allie Dillard, Anna Esco and Anthony Singleton. Wow ! I am so proud of all of your creative ideas and hard work !!

7th grade winners for "Howl-day Card" Contest

Congratulations to the following 7th grade students for being finalists in the Montgomery Humane Society "Howl-day Card" Contest: Hudson Hufham and Meredith Moore !!

The Award Ceremony will take place this Saturday, October 9 at the Annual Walk 'n Wag Event at the Blount Cultural Park / outside Shakespeare Theater. Winners should arrive no later than 9:00 am and check in with the registration table (they should not charge you or your families). The awards will be called out at 9:15 on the Center Stage. Your artwork will be on display there, as well.

They will announce what place you have won and give you your award at this time !!

Hudson Hufham

Meredith Moore

And the winners are . . .

Design Ad Competition !!

Congratulations to the following winners:

Mary V. Stabler, 1st place overall winner for grades 4th - 6th (winner of $100 savings bond)

and winner of the Prattville Progress Newspaper ad

Jackson Byrd, 2nd place overall winner grades 7th - 9th (winner of $75 savings bond)

and winner for Whitfield Foods Inc. ad

The following students won the advertisers choice award for their ads:

Katie Windham, winning ad for Bedzzz Express

Allie Ramsey, winning ad for Troy University Montgomery

Brian Roth, honorable mention for Montgomery Advertiser

Abbie Grace Sims, honorable mention for Freewill Missionary Baptist Church

What a great year for our Middle School Art students ! I am so proud of all of you !!

6th grade finalists for the DAR Constitution Week Poster Design Competition:

These top finalists will now go on to compete in the city-wide competition ! Good Luck to the following students:

Carolyn Albritton, Sydney Bassett, Sophie Burks, Allie Dillard, Anna Esco, Mary Carmen Haynes, McAuley Parker, J. Payne, Allie Ramsey and Anthony Singleton

The Montgomery Advertiser and DAR will be sending invitations with the specific times and locations for the awards ceremonies for these events. The dates are listed in my earlier post ! Additional winners will be announced for the DAR Poster Contest and I will let you know who you are !!

I am working on attaching separate files with images for both competitions. I will let you know when I have posted and where to find them !

save the dates !!!

Upcoming Events that our Middle School Art students are participating !!

(No winners have been announced, but here are some dates that you might want to be aware of.)

6th grade: DAR Constitution Week Poster Contest

The top 10 posters from our school will be display in Goodwyn Hall, AUM campus from October 1-24 and the awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, October 24 in the Goodwyn Hall Auditiorium. (time has not been announced)

7th grade: Montgomery Humane Society "Howl-iday Card" Contest

October 9 at the annual Walk and Wag Festival held in Blount Cultural Park.

(time has not been announced)

6th-7th grades: Montgomery Advertiser Design Ad Competition

October 22 (time and location to be announced)

Last year the event was held at Davis Theater and dinner was held in an annex room adjacent to the Theater.

Upcoming competitions:

6th grade will be designing posters for the Montgomery Lions Club. The contest theme is "Vision of Peace". The contest allows students to share their unique image of peace with others, so that we may all have greater tolerance and international understanding. Poster size will be 14" x 20".

7th grade will be working on designs for the Alabama Recycling Coalition, America Recycles Day T-shirt. We will even use (8 1/2" x 11") Recycled paper to turn in our designs !!

Students in both grades are always welcome to research and brainstorm their concepts with you at home !!

week of September 20-25

Both 6th and 7th grades have designed graphic advertisements for six Montgomery businesses. The Design Ad Competition is sponsored by the Montgomery Advertiser. Each of the businesses will select a class winner and overall winner for their company ad. There will also be 1st, 2nd and 3rd place overall winners for the 4th-6th grade division, 7th-9th grade division and 10th-12th grade divisions. I will announce winners as soon as the Montgomery Advertiser has completed the judging process !! The winners will be invited to an Awards Banquet at the Davis Theater. More info to come !!

I will send a post later this week with all the dates, times and locations for each of the Design Competitions in which we are participating.

6th grade

This week we will continue to design and complete our posters for the DAR Constitution Poster Contest. Ten posters will be selected from our 6th grade, and will be displayed in Goodwyn Hall at AUM. Overall winners will be selected from Montgomery County Public and Private schools. More info to come regarding awards, dates and times of Awards Ceremony.

Our next project will be related to the Art Style of Pop Art. We will look at some of the works by Andy Warhol and Jim Dine. We will do several drawings of common, everyday objects (Coca Cola bottles, a Campbell's soup can and tools). Each student will then create a silhouette drawing of themself and create two different pieces of art, as a repetition pattern and a positive / negative expression.

7th grade

Last week students completed their artwork for the Montgomery Humane Society "Howl-iday Card" Contest. The theme was "Home for the Holidays". Students were to show pets being adopted into loving environments. The Humane Society will select winners and this group of students will be invited to an Awards Ceremony at the annual Walk and Wag event at Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

This week we will spend a few days focusing on blind contour drawing and one point perspectives. We will be using our sketchbooks to practice these techniques before we begin the Room with a View project. Students will design a window using drafting tools, incorporate a table, chair and items on the table in perspective. A pattern must also be incorporated somewhere in the overall design. We will use paint and colored pencil to complete our artwork.

"In Art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

Ralph Waldo Emerson