Put paint on canvas is hardly a new idea when it comes to creating art.

Put paint on canvas is hardly a new idea when it comes to creating art.
But when heavy material is stretched over and around a rubber sole instead of a wooden frame, the result is a moving piece of design work which not only protects the feet, but shoes - committed to error, see - in addition to creative ability.

Fire Thunder Mountain High School students recently developed so many pairs of shoes for a national art competition sponsored by the shoe company Vans.

Over 400 schools received shoes from the competition, "said art teacher THMs in January Neimeyer. Among them, 50 - advanced to the ballot line, which is currently in progress - 10 from each of five regions. Thunder Mountain is the only school in Alaska to get to the regional final, where he is currently competing with schools in Oregon, South Dakota, Montana, Washington and Idaho.keen boys shoes sale

"I think this is actually conforms to the design because it is a real project," Neimeyer said. "It 's the internet, and already people are calling, or place that is so exciting for the students to see other people who appreciate the work. No real audience. It is not just a school. It goes beyond the walls of the school. It 's like an art gallery around the world now. "

Regional winners win an all expense paid trip to New York, where their drawings will be judged by celebrities and the national summit of all the shoes will win $ 50,000 for the art program at her school, and limited edition collection will be standing by Vans. The prize money would be particularly useful in Thunder Mountain, Niemeyer said that, given the cost of sending art supplies in Juneau. She said art students to TMHS must pay a fee to help defray these costs.

Neimeyer, together with the other art teacher Megan Webb, said the competition last year, when you search on Google for a student art competitions.

Teachers and students from four races for an entry in the last two days.

"I just had two days last year, so it was very difficult to talk about things (ideas) and," Culver said Lynzey, now a junior at TMHS. "I remember I skipped many classes because the other three children who were on our team last year were in the same class, and I was not only in this category. So I have to leave class and reach The room (art) work with them. "

Although a timetable for the design and divergent ran, the 2010 Thunder Mountain entrance access to the regional finals.

This year the team had more time to plan and prepare. The students received shoes vans and began the project in mid-March, and before the deadline of 15 April for the presentation. Students are divided into pairs depending on the type of shoes, like high-top or below the ankle slip of the tongue, is more suited to one of four types - action sports, art, music and street culture and fashion. For example, the elderly face Peyton Webb sports action with the height of the high-top shoe skateboardist placed in a high altitude, when the elderly Paris Courtney Donohoe and Johnson used a shoe lace shoelace "aglets may be replaced a miniature brushes. Culver has accepted the challenge of street art, and sophomore Lindsay Smith, Berg music in his challenge.keen shoes boys

Although each couple must be created around a specific theme, and all shoes need a unifying element to bring them together. Smith Berg uses small circular designs in his artworks, so that each pair picked up on this theme. Instructors use these circles offer water and hills, while Smith saved his band Berg frills.

Thunder Mountain students have expressed interest in continuing the project next year, so that Neimeyer said he expects to test out the 2012 schedule. Even students who do not seek to be the team to start to get involved. Culver said he had friends approach him and ask him to cheat on their kicks.

In addition, new ideas in business, Culver said that the competition has been improved as an artist.

"I can work in other (media)," said Culver, whose preferred method of creation are coal and paper. "I can use different objects to draw and create art. I am only doing so on a sheet of paper or canvas. I know I can pull the shoes, and I probably can count on wood blocks or objects in different ways."