Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Junior Kenny Mitchum works on a water color painting of ship during art class. This is one of his individual projects. Art instructor Clarence Thomas advises freshman Kay Pitts on her sculpturing assignment. Sculpturing was one of the projects that students could choose to do during the year. Art students donate oil Seven fourth year art students worked approxi- mately 12 weeks on a 4 ' by 8 ' oil landscape paint- ing for the cafeteria. Freshmen and seniors heard a lecture on painting and art in general given by Mr. Antonius Rae- makers, a local professional artist. He also held discussion on abstract art during the first semester. All art classes visited the Fall Foliage Festival Art show at the 4-H Building and saw the works of local artists. They also toured Mr. Raemaker ' s Art Galleries, which contain not only his own art but also that of his students. Pencil technique, water color, pastels, figure, and animal anatomy were studied by each of the classes. Juniors and seniors, third and fourth year art students, also studied crafts, ceramics, and mosaics. Other topics in the course of study were the use of color, lines, and shading, sculpturing, modern art, and paper mache. The five art classes helped other classes and clubs in their projects. For the Madrigal Dinner at Christmas the classes made the moose head which hung over the main table. Third and fourth year students were generally on their own, except for suggestions from Mr. Clarence Thomas, art instructor, as to what major division they concentrated on. The students set up a display of their individual work in modern art in the front hall of the annex for about two weeks during February. Fourth year senior art student Larry John- son odds a stroke of red to his oil paint- ing of a busy city street. He copied the picture from another painting, working on it during first period art class. 28

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include math in schedule Putting problems on the board and discussing them with the class ore a part of each day in algebra classes. Freshman Don Fogle- man tells the class how he solved this problem. Freshman general math student John Hoyden says, ' This just won ' t come out right. And Mrs. Erma Brooks, moth teacher, explains what he did wrong in working the problem. Geometry students Dick Cassens, Charlie Franklin, Conni Bastin, and Joe Arndt work with compasses and straight edges during Mrs. Brenda Maddox ' s fifth period class. The classes learned the relation of circles to other geometric figures.

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painting; visit art show, Raemaekers galleries Ron Montgomery straightens the painting he, Karen Korte, Sheila Rawlins, Raymond Raemakers, Donald Tapp, Larry Johnson, and Mike Fishel, painted to hang in the high school cafeteria. The picture is an oil of a country scene. It took approximately twelve weeks to complete. Cleaning up after finishing work is just as much part of art as the actual painting. Steve Riffel and Karol Korte learned to care for the materials so they could be used over and over.