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Art
News
July, 2007
Popular Prize Winner @ Sovereign Bank!
During the month
of June, the Silver Lake community viewed the 55 watercolors on exhibit at Sovereign Bank. Many voted for their
favorite painting. Congratulations to Sydney Peters for winning this popular vote. Sydney
created an excellent reflection of a character within an eyeball - very creative, Sydney!
June, 2007
Sovereign Bank of Halifax
hosted
our third
SLRMS Summer Art Show.
To celebrate the students' success in Art, Sovereign Bank of Halifax again hosted our SLRMS Summer
Art Show. This exhibit featured the best of 300 eighth grade watercolor illustrations of
the book that all students and teachers read this year, James Patterson's Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment.
The first place blue rosette and $100.00 savings bond was
won by Sarah Peck for her detailed group portrait of "the
flock". Samantha Doolan received the
red second place rosette Yand a $75.00 savings bond for her lively, colorful
portrayal of members of "the flock" in front of a popular New York toy store. Bethany Matern won the third place white rosette and a $50.00 savings bond for her beautifully drawn and painted portrait . There were so many fine watercolors that the judges also awarded 12 honorable mention ribbons to the following young
artists: Emmeline
Cordingley, Colin Dwyer, Allen Ellis, Adam Fearing, Nathan Fowler, Bryce Irons, Katy Mullen, Shannon Nunzio, Michael O'Keefe,
Sydney Peters, Brett Roche, and Matt Tuttle.
Mr. Azevedo and Mrs. Wadsworth awarded certificates of excellence in watercolor to each participant. Sovereign Bank
provided delicious refreshments for the artists and their families along with goody bags for each young
artist. Mrs Wright, the school librarian, captured the event with her camera. Special thanks to her for
our great photos!
We really can't thank the bank enough for doing this. June was a very, very busy time for all of us. How nice
it was to be treated to such a lovely feast and celebration! The SLRMS Summer Exhibit was at the bank
throughout the entire month of June.
Spring,
2007
During term three, the students were introduced to some basic watercolor techniques through the creation of a
“practice landscape”. Students were amazed with what they could create with a few easy tricks! When
the last team has finished the last landscape, the teams will vote for the best on each team. For their final project
in term four, the students used their creativity and newly acquired skills to illustrate a scene, person, or idea from
the book Maximum Ride.
Winter,
2007
Once again the Boston Globe sponsored the prestigious Scholastic Art Awards in January. Silver
Lake Middle School was allowed to enter 8 pieces of artwork. After careful consideration and a peer and staff vote, the work
of the following students was entered: Cooper Crowe, Adam Fearing, Kimberly Harvey, Elizabeth Murphy, Sarah Peck, Jessica
Rowe, Sarah Shelton, Alyssa Thongpaithoon. Alyssa ‘s black ink drawing “Detour to Grandma’s House”
was selected as the sole representative of our school at the Scholastic Art Show at the state transportation building in Boston.
Congratulations
Alyssa Thongpaithoon
for winning a Silver Key Award!
February brought another letter of congratulations from the Sakura Company of America ’s “Wonderful, Colorful World” contest. Eighth
grader Matt Tuttle received an Honorable Mention for his oil pastel “Aloha”.
Congratulations to
Matt Tuttle !
This was a tremendous honor. Cray-pas’ Wonderful, ccolorful World
contest is one of the most highly regarded contests for children in grades K-8.
There were 4,000 entries from which 150 finalists were chosen. From those, nine first, second, and third place winners
and 31 honorable mention recipients were chosen. All 150 pieces will be on exhibit at the Sun Gallery of Hayward, California
from February 8 through May 25, 20007.
Winter, 2006 Art
Club News
Art Club students have been very busy helping
teachers and the PTO, as well as trying to meet deadlines for two annual art contests: Royal Brush's painting contest in late
January and the BioDreaming Biotechnology Poster contest in March. Julianne Brown, Bethany Matern, Sarah Peck,
and Matt Tuttle brainstormed ideas and then painted "Everyday Objects in a New Way" for the Royal Brush contest.
In February Club members designed and painted tthe colorful back drop for the photographs at March Madness for the PTO. The
perky leprechaun with his pot of gold, below a colorful rainbow arch of shamrocks, was on display in the main lobby during
March.
Julianne, Bethany, Sarah, and Matt recently spent two afternoons hanging 8-1's Islamic Prayer Rugs with Mrs. Benash.
Be sure to see these in the 8-1 pod area!
Most recently, the following four 8th grade students created posters representing what biotechnology meant to them:
Julianne Brown, Steve George, Bethany Matern, and Matt Tuttle. Each design was unique.
Recycle, Recycle,
Recycle . . .
As you know,
this is fairly new Art Department. The facilities are wonderful. We have both a project room and a computer design room. We
refer to these areas together as the "Art Studio," for it is surely more than just a room!
We
began with not even a pair of scissors or a paint brush! Although our supply orders were huge and I brought in carloads of
materials, we still need some items and could really use more of just about anything. So, please think twice before tossing
your "junk" in the trash ! Remember the old saying? "One man's trash is another man's treasure!"
To donate, simply mark a bag Art Studio, or Mrs. Wadsworth
and drop the bag off in the main office!
Suggested items include:
old art supplies - partially used is fine! - such as paints, brushes, etc.
- beads, yarns, strings, stencils, papers, small pieces
of wrapping paper, stamps, pipe cleaners, any bendable wire, glue, sponges, facial tissues for water colors, oil pastels,
colored pencils, glitter, old craft supplies, jewelry findings, felt, markers, crayons, clay tools, glazes, rolls of paper,
etc.
Thanks for all donations!
Pentel's International Children's Art Exhibit
Silver
Lake Middle School hosted The 35th International Children's Art Exhibit, the
ICAE, in January of 2006. Kingston was its 4th stop in a nine city(town) year long tour of the United States.
A year ago children
ages 3 - 15 submitted their artwork to be judged by an international panel of judges in in Japan, home of the sponsoring
company, Pentel Co., Ltd. The 2 dimensional artwork was done using a wide variety of media, such as paint,
chalks, crayon, oil pastels, pencil, markers, print and collage materials.
Over 200,000 pieces of art were entered by children from 67 countries and territories around the world. The entries
from each country compete only against themselves. Children from the U.S. submitted 1,500 creations.
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