In honor of Veteran’s Day this past week, students from The Brook Hill Lower School and Bullard ISD in grades first through fourth were invited to enter the Red, White, and Blue Festival poster contest for the city of Bullard’s annual Veteran’s celebration. The theme of the contest was “An Image of America”. Caleb […]
With oil pastels in hand, 4th-grade students began building their Ancient Moai Statues in Mrs. Larios’ art room this week! After a brief educational video explaining the history and design behind the iconic Easter Island statues, students had the chance to “build” their own. With paper and oil pastels, students drew, colored, and layered […]
Mrs. Renaud’s students created beautiful art for display during fine arts week at the lower school. Pictured are several winning entries.
During Fine Arts Week at the Lower School, Tyler Junior College professor, Dave Funk was invited to demonstrate working with clay on a potter’s wheel. Second through fifth graders enjoyed learning about this medium and were amazed at how quickly a lump of clay was transformed into a clay pot!
The Brook Hill Lower School recently celebrated Fine Arts Week planned by music teacher, Mr. Pierce, and art teacher, Mrs. Allen. Student art work was displayed on walls and in the halls. It was an “Art Lollapalooza Showcase”! Also, throughout the week, students and faculty were treated to a variety of demonstrations and performances. Art Lollapalooza! […]
Many Brook Hill Lower School students received recognition for their outstanding work in the Arts during Fine Arts Week at Brook Hill. Art teacher, Mrs. Allen, announced student awards for judged art. First, second, and third place ribbons were awarded at each grade level. The results at each grade level are listed here in first, […]
Art students went to Dallas to visit International artist, Steve Ko, at his studio and gallery. Ko gave a live demonstration of an oil painting from a model and talked about the painting process when using oil. Ko shared many personal experiences about his work ethic as well as the rigor and discipline it takes […]
This week our MS Visual Arts class refined their artistic abilities. Students are using pastels as their medium and creating Still Life drawings from displays in the middle of the room. Here are a few pictures of the class!
Students in Tina Nivens’ Studio Art 1 class just completed a project influenced by pop artist, Andy Warhol. Students each painted self portraits in black and white then added a pop of color. This project reinforced what the students have been learning about value and gradation as well as portraiture. These students are all new […]
Brook Hill’s Freshman Maddi Travis won several visual arts awards at the 98th East Texas State Fair September 23-27 in Tyler Texas. Maddi placed first with a portrait painting in acrylic and second and honorable mention with two prisma color pencil drawings in the youth creative arts division. This year’s event was held in Tyler […]