Spotlight on the Arts: Garrett Brown
Noxon student Garrett Brown.
“Spotlight on the Arts” by The Paradise Center honors and encourages students in the arts by highlighting their talent and acknowledging the support they receive through their schools and teachers.
This was a year of “firsts” for Garrett Brown,11, in the fifth grade at Noxon Elementary School. This is the first hunting season in which he is an actual hunter, and this was his first time to create a work of art with melted crayon as his medium. Given his interest in hunting it is no surprise that the subject matter for his art creation is a bugling bull elk, his favorite animal.
Melted crayon, he says, is his favorite medium for a variety of reasons. It is easy, it has an overall shine, and blending colors is quite an exciting process. When asked what is next in his artistic journey, he says all he wants to do is more melted crayon. The process uses standard crayon and a soldering iron to melt and apply it to a sturdy surface, in this case corrugated cardboard. While it takes longer than just coloring with crayon, the final product is striking, resembling an acrylic painting.
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