Northeast High School - Charger Yearbook (North Little Rock, AR)

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it Say Cheese-Art Club sponsor Racheal Hen- drick, is all smiles in her oil painting class. Spinning wheel-Round and round they pottery wheel goes as Vicki Keithly skillfully creates a pot from clay, 96-Tough Stuff Creating a vision A little dab will do ya-Iunior Iimmy Oliver concentrates on getting just the right touch to his oil painting.

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Artists create with ease A little dab here, a touch up there and Wa-La a masterpiece! Sounds pretty simple. But don't let that fool you, it's not quite as easy as it looks. Art students worked hard to get just the right results for their creations, whether they were molding a hunk of clay into a sculp- ture or transforming a blank canvas into a shaded, green forest. Art courses available were Art I, Art II, Dimensional Art and Pottery. Each class was filled with students eager to learn the secrets of producing a good work of art. Mr. Ken Dickson, an art instructor, revealed that there were no mysterious secrets to it. All a student needs is a desire to create, the right attitude and a lit- tle ability. he explained. Art offered students a chance to express themselves as in- dividuals in many different areas. Working with clay was one exam- ple. According to art teacher Mrs. Carolyn Stone, a student working with clay develops a certain skill and coordination in his hands. Mr. Dickson explained that art is just the course to make Clay boy-junior Todd Crow is knee deep in sacks of clay in pottery class. Perfect make-up job-Art instructor Ken Dickson plasters over the face of junior Todd Hollis with the aide of Senior Tammy Wise. Lining it up-junior Chris Oliver worked hard- at getting his drawing dimensions perfect. students open their eyes and look around them. he said. Mrs. Racheal Hendrick was the No, not any devastating scien- tific discoveries were made in art class, but there were discoveries of another kind. These were dis- coveries of oneself, of some hidden talent or of the beauty within, brought out through a stroke of a paint brush, the pressure of hands or sketches on canvas. Art Club sponsor. They had various activities. One of them was the stu- dent show and sell , where you guessed it, art students had a chance to show and sell their pro- jects. Vickie Lively Smoothing things out-Things do go smoothly as pottery teacher Carolyn Stone instructs Senior Diane Parnels on what to do with her unfinished pot. Ill gl L i