Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo: Liberty District Art Show

On Friday, January 15, 2016, the LHS Cafeteria hosted over 250+ pieces of Western/Rodeo Art to be judged for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo! 

It was an epic show of 2 FIRSTS for Liberty!

Normally, LHS sends 3 pieces to Houston... 

This Year, LHS was awarded it's 1st Special Merit Award!

Which means we have 4 pieces going to Houston!!!!

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Normally, LES, LMS, & LHS are the only campuses represented... 

This Year, thanks to the efforts of Mrs. Elene Takach's 1st grade class... 

San Jacinto Elementary had 22 artists participating 

& one was a FINALIST who almost made it to Houston!

Special Thanks to Mrs. Elene Takach (SJE), Mrs. Jessie Smith (LES), Mrs. Jacqui Hamel (LMS), & all my wonderful LHS art students who not only created artwork for the show, but helped with matting, setup & cleanup. All of your efforts are greatly appreciated in making this show one of the best yet!

More artwork and the winners coming soon!

District Christmas Card Winner

CONGRATULATIONS to Rosa Garcia for her warm and cozy design which will be featured as part of the Liberty ISD's Christmas Cards this year!

Where to begin?!?

There has been so much going on that this is the first real chance I've had to update you all on what's going on in the LHS Art Room! We are in Week 12, the second week of November! Crazy! TVE, Art Bikes, Self-Portraits, and more! Now it's Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Artwork Time again... 

Mark your calendars for the

HLSR Liberty ISD District Art Show

LHS Cafeteria

Friday, January 15, 2016

So...Where to begin? 

I guess let's start with TVE... 

Back Row: Olivia Buddington (1st, Pen & Ink/2nd Overall Senior Division), Macey Brunson (2nd, Pencil - Black/White), Mrs. Tarbell (1st, Pencil - Black/White/2nd Overall Adult Division), Noah Holden (Participant - Color Photography & Pencil - Black/White), Nancy Lujan (3rd, Pencil - Black/White)

Front Row: Andrea De Los Reyes(1st, Pencil - Black/White/1st Overall Senior Division), Lidia Ochoa (1st, Miscellaneous Art), & Marichele Ihuit (1st, B&W photography)

And the art in no particular order!

TAEA One-Day Conference in Brenham

Yesterday, Ms. Tomlinson, a newly certified art teacher and myself took advantage of a TAEA One-Day Conference! All professional development should be so much fun! There were 4 sessions and 4 pieces of art created (previews to the possibilities coming next year!)

The first was a pastel portrait, my first ever! I will be practicing more on this, but for an 1 hour session... not too bad at all.

The second was a lesson on Sagmeister Photo/Design Process! I started with a photo of Cheryl Evans, a wonderful artist/educator and watercolorist! I have had the pleasure of meeting her, watching her work and learning from not only her but those she taught! Go Goose Creek!



Now Sagmeister works with the photo being trimmed out and then having a background added so here is the photo as Sagmeister might have done it! I will say I did not have time to make my own background so this was a ready made just for the example.



This was is what it looks like from the back in all white! I couldn't decide which way I liked it best!

The third session involved Dale Chihuly (http://www.chihuly.com/) style magnets! 

It starts off flat and this was my design!

Add heat and the magic begins! Hot glue a magnet (round black thing) and it is a beautiful little piece of scultpure inspired by Mr. Chihuly.

The last session was on Repousse, metal tooling I worked outside the lesson plan but it worked beautifully!

 

Big Thanks to Jami Bevans, Suzanne Green, Christine Grafe, Kim Marshall (seen above with me) & Samantha Melvin (who introduced me to tunnel books, I just didn't get to go to her session!)!!!!!

And to all the people responsible for giving of their time to better the rest of us...

Thank you all for sharing your artistic know-how and enthusiasm!

LHS Art Room Wrap up 2015!!!

It's time to wrap up things around here and put them away for the summer! It has been a wild ride this year! And tonight, the Seniors become graduates and another year officially ends! (Sniffles) But before anyone goes... a few more highlights to share with you all!

Art 1 Students made their mark in printmaking 

by carving out some original designs!

All Ceramic Pieces FINALLY went through the fire with only a few casualties!!!

 *****Art 1 Pinch Pot"ato" Creations ******

***** Art 2 Coil Constructions *****

We're keeping an eye on that mug! Loved it!

A real flower pot!

Some of the crazy bunch of Art 2 Students who traveled to the Menil Collection in Houston!

This little beauty was left along with others whenever I left my phone out! Love you kids!

And last but not least to all my Seniors... I am so lucky to have gotten to know all of you and I am so proud of each one of you! Good luck to you all and you will be missed... 

Austin Walker, Jeremiah Thompson, Valerie Goings, Cameron Parker, 

Edith Perez, Luz Villegas, Kregg Sankar, Christian Castro, 

Mallory Perkins, & Evelin Vasquez (below).

Liberty Middle School Art Gala

This past weekend was the LMS Fine Art Gala and I wanted to share some of the highlights in case you were not in attendance. Though not as grand as years past, this year's Visual and Graphic Arts students put on quite a show! I applaud Mrs. Mellissa Waller and Mr. JD Humber as well as all their students for producing so many wonderful pieces! Here are just a few!

It was also time for the National Junior Art Honor Society to induct 15 new members and appoint new officers for the coming year!

Mr. Humber's 6th graders also presented Mr. Cody Abshier, LISD Superintendent, with this well done mosaic portrait! Each student was given a separate square to do and then they were brought back together for this wonderful tribute and thank you for all his hard work!