Westfield Students Create on Concrete

Close to 200 students in Foundations of Art classes worked collaboratively to create an enlarged Anamorphic Perspective chalk drawing in the school's courtyard.

The drawing has a 3-D effect and is based on techniques developed during the Renaissance period and made popular by current artists. 

The chalk creation on the concrete courtyard at Westfield High, with penguins seemingly diving into a universe of ice, was based on ideas from Tim Stumbers’ students Sameena Asija and Meghan Pettit. 

According to fellow art teacher Roy Chambers, "We studied works from English Artist Julian Beever, who is famous for his street chalk drawings that, when viewed from the correct angle, brings them into a 3-D effect, seeming to defy the laws of perspective.”