Karly Sacco, Weisenberg Elementary School art instructor, introduced six students whose work is now displayed in the Northwestern Lehigh School Board meeting room.

The students and teacher were honored at the Jan. 16 meeting.

Principal Marc Dobbs said Sacco is a great art teacher who motivates her students.

First grader Ashley Ott created a painting that included some math as the paper needed to be divided into six sections, with a circle in each.

Positive and negative spaces were shown by third grader Alina Palma, who made a picture of a snowman with a pine tree on either side.

Her piece of art is a collage with shadows extending downward from the trees.

Second grader Sarah Renner made a monoprint by folding her picture, which was drawn on the top half of the paper, and then pressing it to make an upsided-down image on the bottom half.

She then painted the bottom image.

Evan Anderson, second grade, studied Vincent van Gogh before making a black-and-white cityscape, which was glued to a painted background with the sky and other features.

Sacco explained that Jacob Smith, a fifth grader, worked with digital photos and he is shown in his picture.

The background was done with oil pastels.

Also using pictures of himself was Jared Stitzel, a fourth grader. After studying the work of Claude Monet, Stitzel's main object in the picture was a bridge on which he is standing.

"Every artist must start somewhere," Board President Darryl Schafer said, of the young artists.