Lakehills Area library highlighting art from students all month

For the month of April, the Lakehills Area Library is celebrating Student Art Month. The library will be hosting Hill Country Elementary (HCE) and local area homeschoolers from Lakehills, Pipe Creek and Bandera.

Kathleen Bryant is the art teacher at HCE as well as being a former student there, while today her sons also attend HCE.

Kathleen earned her degree in Art and Art History from Texas State University. She loves creating sculptures and admits to being especially inspired by the “subject of food”, which often helps her to bring creativity and fun into her artwork and classroom.

Her youngest artists in Pre-K and Kindergarten were able to explore their favorite stories through creating imaginative projects which included, How to Catch a Leprechaun creation and 3D Very Hungary Caterpillar.

Her First-grade students were able to bring to life “classic tales” with artwork inspired by The Princess and the Pea and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

A mix of seasonal and historical pieces, from joyful spring bunnies to detailed Titanic Portraits, as well as fun 3D pop art pizza sculptures are showcased by her Second graders. Creativity is displayed by her Third-grade students’ intricate paper quilled shamrocks and their own designing of original paint colors and tubes.

Groovy watercolor lava lamps are the creation of the Fourth graders, who added a “splash of Retro style” to their paintings.

Fifth-grade students were able to impress with their “bold, larger-thanlife” pop art snack bag designs. The talent and creativity of these students from HCE is a great display to see and enjoy.

Rene Groot coordinated with nine families whose children are homeschooled in our surrounding areas of Lakehills, Pipe Creek, and Bandera.

She was able to collect various types of art to display this month such as woodworking, photography, water coloring, paper mosaic, glue gun art paintings, acrylic pour painting, crochet art, seashore art, sculptures, paper art, pique assiette mosaics, and forged metal art. These homeschooled students have done incredible and awesome art pieces to share with you and the community.