Published: April 24, 2008 01:00 pm            

Sixth-graders place in art contest

By Liana Fochtman

Somerset Christian Sixth-Grader

Every Wednesday afternoon at Somerset Christian School, art class is held for sixth-graders.

The class has made many different projects. Some are more time consuming than others.

Several of the larger projects the pupils have worked on throughout the year are self-portraits, papier mache‚ animals and still-life paintings.

The self-portraits were the hardest. I had to keep my head in the same position almost the whole time.

The still-life projects turned out to be very nice.

When the class finished the rough drawings, watercolors and pastels were used to complete the projects.

The sixth-grade girls, Grace Sprowls and I, worked on a papier mache armadillo.

The sixth-grade boys, Christian Miller, Isaac Plummer and Levi Clevenger, made a papier mache sloth.

Elizabeth Trent, the art teacher, entered the projects in a middle-school art exhibition at Laurel Arts in Somerset.

The armadillo didn’t win a prize, but the boys’ sloth captured second place.

        

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