Look; is there a girl sitting on the stairs? Look again. The depiction of a girl sitting in the tower stairwell is only one of many portraits now painted throughout the school.
Art teacher Wade Bowers’s students have been working on these shadow paintings in the hallways, stairwells, and cafeteria.
Bowers, along with fellow art teacher Wesley Myers, supervise the Art Club and their activities.
Bowers, along with fellow art teacher Wesley Myers, supervise the Art Club and their activities.
“We take photographs of them in the pose that they want to do. We upload that to Photoshop, add a threshold effect to it, and minimize the values to one. We then print that out and copy them onto a transparency. Then it is projected onto the wall and traced with paint,” said Bowers.
Over the past months these student artists have also teamed up with the Life Skills classes to create many detailed, creative, and colorful paintings. Those which are in the cafeteria were done by Bowers’s Life Skills class, and the remaining are being created by Art Club members. Since Art Club is not a class, the students only meet every other week and make time to individually work on the paintings.
Sophomore Hannah Wistort is helping to create the murals. “It’s nice to get the opportunity to leave your mark on the school in a creative and expressive way,” said Wistort.
Other than giving Art Club members more experience, the murals are also meant to bring some life to the dull grey and pale green walls that line the school.