Art is a pivotal expression of emotion and talent. It allows artists to create amazing compositions out of clay, watercolors, oil pastels, and any other medium you can think of. The Art classes at Wylie offer many ways to discover what type of art is your favorite. The wonderful art teachers are Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Camp, and both are very experienced teachers, and seemingly all their students enjoy the class.
Recently the Art programs at Wylie High School have been creating various arrays of fall consisting of clay pumpkins and watercolor paintings of flowers, leaves, and pumpkin arrangements, along with Elastic Band portraits, and Paper Mache. The students are quite dedicated to their artwork and the underclassmen’s pieces can be seen outside of the art classrooms in the 400 hallway; whereas the upperclassmen’s pieces are displayed in the front rotunda right as you walk into school.
Not only have the beginner students worked with both clay and watercolor, but they have also created various pieces using pencil shading, colored pencils and printmaking techniques throughout the first semester. The Art 1 Classes will soon begin work on their Pop Art celebrity portraits using markers, and the Art 2 classes have begun Notan pieces, which involves an emphasis on positive and negative space. The Draw two classes, which focuses specifically on the uses of charcoal, pencil, colored pencil, and ink, have been working on Photo-Realism pieces.
While the underclassmen art classes persist to work on learning different art techniques and continuing to practice those that they have already learned, the older students are creating beautiful pieces with the Art 3 students working on six-color reduction prints, and the most experienced Art 4 students working on clay animal busts.
Even though Art may be perceived as either useless or a waste of time, art can be used as therapy and has many job opportunities. Just look at Mrs. Camp, she has become an author using her past experiences with art. Art has sometimes been seen as “just an elective,” but it is so much more than that. Art is actually one of the only electives that counts towards your GPA.
