Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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REPRODUCTIONS OF STUDIES BY SOME OF THE ART STUDENTS Mural — The Farm by 3rd Form

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20 SAMARA FIRST we want to thank Miss May for all the happy hours we have spent in the art room. We are certainly fortunate in having her to teach us and help us with our paintings. This year the exhibition usually held at Christmas was not held until before Easter. Mr. E. W. Harold, in his criticism which appeared in the Citizen, said at your first glance you were conscious of its elemental colour and bold freedom of line — I believe Mr. Buck took some photographs of this bold freedom of line. The most striking thing of all, Mr. Harold said, were the murals. These consisted of murals of ships of older days, farm life and costumes. The III Form painted the mural on ships and the preparatory did one of figures on cotton wool snow. Nearly every- body in the art class had her dab in these murals. They were great fun to do and we hope to paint another for the exhibition in June. We want to thank Mr. Harold very much for coming to our exhibition and we ap- preciate his criticism. The subjects of the art class have been interesting and varied; land-scapes, animal studies, fashions, still-life and sea-scapes. We are all looking toward to going sketching in the Spring. Some of the art students are to be thanked for making posters for the Red Cross and in aid of the Refugees. Some who are not in the art class are to be thanked too. Paula Peters executed a poster, Travel By C.N.R. which is now in the C.N.R. ticket office on Sparks Street. Good work, Paula! Those in the arts form have made visits to the National Art Gallery, either to further them in their study of History of Art or to help them appreciate good art. Nancy Doane, last year ' s Art Prize win- ner, we believe, has been dividing her time between Miss May ' s art studio and the museum where she assists Miss May with her Saturday morning art classes. We also heard lately that she had been to Toronto to study art. In the Interior Decorating classes we learned about colour and colour schemes. Then we studied the evolution of furniture in England, how to plan a house and also how to design chinzes. It was all very interesting and pleasant. Miss Russel has very kindly given instruc- tion in handicrafts. The boarders were taught to make belts, baskets, woollen scarves and bed jackets. The III Form made a very life-like water-wheel under her guidance. We all feel that this has been a very progressive and productive year in the way of art. THE SEA The sea is a creature of quick-moving grace. With a laughing bright heart and chill em- brace. A creature of stillness and seething rage. Whose call rings out, wild, from age unto age. She spreads gleaming pathways for boats, men ' s dreams, And upsets in a moment their carefully laid schemes. She ' s gracious and smiling, heartless, possessed. Her beauty is that of a woman much blest. So men love her, curse her, — and somewhere their graves Are hid ' neath the music of gay lilting waves. — WiNiFRED Cross, Keller.

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