YOUNG PAINTERS IN ELKMONT

Thursday and Friday were busy in downtown Elkmont as some of the high school students were throwing paint around creating something new.  This is the seventh year that this annual event has been available to our young people interested in learning how to paint.

With $4,000 worth of grants and donations from the Elkmont Foundation, PPG Foundation and state Rep. Dan Williams, R-Athens, Elkmont High School has been able to hire expert painting instructor William McDonald of Tupelo, Mississippi to teach landscape techniques to about 60 students in grades 

seventh through 12th.  This is the seventh year that this annual event has been available to our young people interested in learning how to paint. He works with about 30 students on two different days at the school using the Bob Ross method. Ross, who died in 1995, was a painter, art instructor and creator and host of “The Joy of Painting,” a television program that ran 12 years on PBS stations.

The project may not produce a future Rembrandt or Norman Rockwell, but it 

does let these lucky students try something new, have lots of fun and not fear mistakes. 
 

Special thanks to Robby Newport of Down Home Portraits for the great photos

Link to more photos: PAINTING CLASS