Solar System Art Day

Ieshia painting Pluto, Randy supporting Zackery as they worked 
together on the Sun, and Tami paints Venus unveiled.

On a special Saturday Academy to make up for a rare but welcomed snow day several months back, those that could make it spent the morning earning their First Aid certificates and the afternoon painting select objects in the Solar System to be displayed on the last Saturday following during the awards ceremony. The students had the following list to pick from:

  • USS Pioneer - the proposed manned spacecraft to travel to Artemis

  • Sun

  • Mercury

  • Venus

  • Earth

  • The Moon

  • Mars

  • Asteroid Belt

  • Artemis

  • Jupiter

  • Saturn

  • Uranus

  • Neptune

  • Pluto

  • and a comet

Here are some of the paintings that were displayed at the Awards Ceremony.
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Under the guidance of Ms. Kim Roof, they students first sketched their object on paper using images from assorted astronomy texts and/or their own imagination, and then used watercolors on large clear acetate. Their final product was then hung from windows in Lexington Hall to display for the college students as they wrapped up their exams for Spring term. Some worked inside while others painted outside beneath the fairly hot May Sun.

 

Grace, Ms. Stephanie Gleaton, Ms. Holly Miller, and Leeann
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Several instructors who are planning on joining the team for the four weeks in summer where there also: Mr. Dondi Marfoir and Ms. Kim Roof.

 

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Mr. Dondi Marfori and Ms. Joy Jones

 

  

Ms. Kim Roof with David as he paints the USS Pioneer

 

 

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