Visual Arts at CCS
Mrs. Faye McLemore
Preschool and Elementary Art
We are off to a great start in art...fun! fun! I am happy to be back in preschool and elementary art this year. I started here, then moved up to the higher grades for a couple of years, and now happy to be back! If you parents have anything you would like to do with us, please let me know. We would love to have you visit our classes.
For more information about preschool and elementary visual arts, contact Faye McLemore, instructor, ext. 213.
Pre-school art students have started the year with ice painting which involved using ice as a paint brush. The pictures have all been framed to send home with the students. We are currently working on our Fall pictures making collages of Fall trees.
Photos submitted by Faye McLemore
Elementary students started out with line drawing this year, now we are working on pastels -- surface drawing, over-lap mixing, blending by tissue paper, etc.
Due to lack of space to store the students' work in the classroom, we are sending it home with the students. However, please be sure to save your child's artwork as Mrs. McLemore will be entering student artwork in several art shows and contests this year.
Photos submitted by Faye McLemore
Bethany Anderson
Middle School & High School Art
I am a new teacher here at CCS this year and I am excited about how our year is going so far. With all of the art classes here at CCS, I will be trying to integrate some art history, aesthetics, and criticism into the students’ production assignments. It is my goal that students will leave art class, not only having produced artwork, but having a better understanding and appreciation of art in the world around them.
For more information about MS/HS visual arts, contact
Bethany Anderson, instructor, ext. 213.
This semester in middle school art we have been working on one point linear perspective, creating houses, roads, buildings, and an entire city as our final project. We then began working on an elements of art unit and have covered expressive line, sketching, outline drawing, and shading values. We are currently working on pointillism. For the remainder of the semester, we will continue to look at the elements of art and will explore different artwork styles and media.
High School
The high school art class also started this semester with linear perspective, but we went more in depth with the process. We explored creating interior spaces and manipulating size, scale, and text using linear perspective. After finishing the linear perspective unit, the high school class began working with values and shading in graphite. We will be working with subtractive charcoal in our next assignment. Projects in the future will focus on abstraction, cropping, and the use of various art media.
Posted 10/12/07
Back to School Night
We had Back to School Night on September 18th and we would like to thank all of the parents that came out to see what we were doing in art class. We discussed our class syllabus, supplies, and went over the art projects that we had done to-date.
What can you do to help our art classes at CCS?
• Show interest in your students’ artwork and come
to events when we will be displaying their work.
• We are always in need of magazines to use for
art projects and old art books to use for example
images.
• When we have a still life project, we will
occasionally need to borrow still life objects
(i.e. old animal bones and skulls, old vases, etc.). If you have any objects similar to those above, that you would allow the art program to borrow or that you would like to donate, please let us know.
