Northwest ISD Navigator Magazine Spring 2017-18 | Page 16

Fine Arts
Focus
Love Elementary
School
Alex Salazar, 2nd Grade
“Secret Code Shape Collage”
To begin this project, we studied the artist
Auguste Herbin and his “Alphabet Plastique”
paintings in which he created a code that
he used in his paintings. Alex created his
own code using shapes and colors, then he
decided on a word or phrase to illustrate in
his artwork. We also looked at the paintings
of contemporary artist, Reggie Laurent, and
Alex incorporated his style into his artwork
by drawing designs on and around his shapes
with oil pastels.
Saihara Aizawa, 5th Grade
“Britto Candy Drawing”
Using a grid drawing technique to draw objects
in a large scale, Saihara created this drawing with
pieces of candy. Then she studied contemporary
artist Romero Britto and incorporated his style by
outlining her drawing and adding patterns.
Ngozi Unekwe, 5th Grade
“Pop Can Portrait”
Ngozi used a flattened aluminum can to create a portrait
of a dog in the style of contemporary artist Didier Triglia.
She also designed a background for her pop can portrait by
painting onto a piece of cardboard.
Ellis Reynolds, 1st Grade
“Love Prints”
Ellis created this amazing artwork with his prints from our
printmaking unit. He made a circle monoprint (which he
used as the letter “o”), marker and liquid starch prints, and
Styrofoam ink prints. He glued down his best prints and then
cut out letters to make a collage like artist Robert Indiana.
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Sage Campbell, 4th Grade
“Digital Radial Designs”
After learning about radial balance, Sage used
the program on inspirARTion.com to create
this amazing colorful radial design.