Students spruce up Crocus Plains with Christmas art

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Brandon painter Anne Boychuk is well known in this city for her artistic talents, particularly when it comes to her work during the holiday season on store fronts downtown. For many a year, the front windows of several downtown businesses have been bedecked with all manner of Yuletide imagery from the tip of her paintbrush.

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Brandon painter Anne Boychuk is well known in this city for her artistic talents, particularly when it comes to her work during the holiday season on store fronts downtown. For many a year, the front windows of several downtown businesses have been bedecked with all manner of Yuletide imagery from the tip of her paintbrush.

This year, however, she introduced the practice to a new group of young painters from her painting class at the Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School.

On Friday morning during the first period of the day, at least half a dozen students from her grades 11 and 12 painting class wielded their brushes to give the front door windows of their high school a Christmas makeover, replete with snow-covered fir trees, twinkling stars, and bright shining candles.

Painting instructor Anne Boychuk cleans up supplies with one of her students after painting the front doors of Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School on Friday morning. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
Painting instructor Anne Boychuk cleans up supplies with one of her students after painting the front doors of Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School on Friday morning. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)

Though painting Christmas scenes is nothing new for Boychuk, Friday’s effort was the first time she or her class students painted the front doors of Crocus Plains.

Boychuk told the Sun that Crocus Plains is one of only three high schools in the province to offer a full painting course to Manitoba students.

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Grace Middleton, a Grade 11 student at Crocus Plains, paints the final touches on a Christmas candle as part of a class project with Boychuk, to paint the front door windows of the high school. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
Grace Middleton, a Grade 11 student at Crocus Plains, paints the final touches on a Christmas candle as part of a class project with Boychuk, to paint the front door windows of the high school. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School painting instructor Anne Boychuk paints out the letters Merry Christmas on the middle window of the high school front doors on Friday morning. At least half a dozen students from the painting class she teaches at Crocus Plains joined her to add a touch of festive colour to the school's entrance. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School painting instructor Anne Boychuk paints out the letters Merry Christmas on the middle window of the high school front doors on Friday morning. At least half a dozen students from the painting class she teaches at Crocus Plains joined her to add a touch of festive colour to the school's entrance. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
Grade 11 student Harmonee Moar-Sanderson dabs at her paint palette while painting stars on a front door window at Crocus Plains on Friday morning, part of an art project with Boychuk to paint a holiday theme on the high school’s front entrance. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
Grade 11 student Harmonee Moar-Sanderson dabs at her paint palette while painting stars on a front door window at Crocus Plains on Friday morning, part of an art project with Boychuk to paint a holiday theme on the high school’s front entrance. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
McKenna, a Grade 11 student at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School, paints a fir tree onto one of the windows of the high school's front doors on Friday morning, part of a class project under painting instructor Anne Boychuk. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
McKenna, a Grade 11 student at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School, paints a fir tree onto one of the windows of the high school's front doors on Friday morning, part of a class project under painting instructor Anne Boychuk. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)
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