By By KATHIE HEMPEL / Niles Daily Star
NILES-Brandywine students walked away with several wins at the Berrien County Arts and Science Expo. Five students captured six awards at the competition.
Sisters, Erin, 18, and Jill, 15, Sinkoff won in printmaking. Erin won a first and second place for two entries of prints made from digitized and altered photographs of her brother and sister.
The younger Sinkoff won third place for her impression of a tree. Both images were then processed with a linoleum block layered for each color of the final print.
"My image included a lot of little details of leaves and reflections from the sun. It took quite a while to get it completed," Jill said.
Another first place win, but in the manufacturing category, was submitted by Andrew Parker, 17. His drawing for a pentagon-shaped birdhouse, with multicolored design to be made of oak is one that caught the attention of judges.
"I had done a drawing of the interior design of my bedroom for a class. Then I added samples of wall color and fabrics with other details for my entry to the Architecture section of the competition," Kahli Balint, 17 said.
Balint's efforts gained her a fourth place in that category.
Senior David Davis, 18, won an honorable mention for his multi-media design of a car. The other students agreed that the drawing done in ink and colored pencils was a winner.
The artwork will be moved to the Niles Library for the annual Brandywine and Niles Art Show, from May 1 to 26 in the Eleanor and Mowitt Drew Gallery.