Have you made a Self Portrait before?

For art, we have been learning how to blend colours to make skin tones or hair colours, we applied this skill on our portrait art! This art was created in laminating paper. 

So, first off to make the portrait, each of us were taken a photo to use for the tracing of the face and clothing, next I traced the picture using a Sharpie or a vivid. After that, using the colours red, yellow, black, and white I mixed the colours altogether and made a colour altleast similar to my skin colour. 

I really love this activity, mixing colours and learning new ways to create different shades of colours was really fun! 

My Royal Spoonbill Art!

A few weeks ago we started our calendar art. For our class' calendar art we did NZ native birds! If you don't know what calendar art is, it is when students make artwork that can be ordered into products such as a postcard, calendar, mouse pads, diaries, or sketchbooks! I chose a Royal Spoonbill for my art! 

To make the art, each of the students in our class printed a picture of the bird that we were going to use for our art, using a pencil, I lightly sketched the bird with the picture taped behind the paper I was going to use for our drawing. After that, I drew small geometric shapes inside the bird. Next I dyed the background, using two colours making a gradient with it. I drew a circle around the bird's head for the highlights. Next up, I added crepe paper around the outside of the circle! Here's my art: 

I enjoyed sketching and shading in the bird and colouring the background for my art! I used some colours in the original picture I used for the sketch in my bird, as you can see, I added blue, light blue, and yellow. 

What do you think about my art? Have you done something similar to this art before? Comment your answers!

My Japanese Art!

Hello! For Art we created a unique kind of artwork! This was made by using pastels and blending the colours all together. Our artwork was inspired by the Japanese flag, pagodas, and cherry blossoms. This activity was based in Japan, where the Olympics 2020 was hosted!

To make this artwork we watched a video guiding us step by step on how to make this artwork. The colours of pastels you will need are red, yellow, orange, and brown for the sunset, black for the cherry blossoms and the pagoda, and a large sheet of paper (thick enough for the pastel). You have to leave a blank circle in the center which represents the sun, colour outside of the circle, first yellow, second orange, third red, and lastly brown. The rest of the tutorial will be in the youtube link at the end.

I  enjoyed doing this activity! It was really fun and I hope to be able to do something similar to this in the future! Have you done any Japanese-related art before? What was it? Let me know in the comments!
Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqfo8gvKk_8

My 2021 Home Learning Book Cover!

 Hello! This year students from Saint Marys have joined a competition. This competition consists of creating an art that resembles our school for our home learning book cover next year, one student will be nominated by the teachers and given a prize, though they haven't announced yet but I'm so excited to find out soon!

Last week we planned what we were going to create with Koka Kalo for Art, after sketching we started our art on paper, we could draw anything but it should only represent our school. Unfortunately my design was irrelevant though I joined and handed out my entry anyway. I was also learning how to shade at that time so the small lesson with the shading helped me be successful with my art! Heres my art! 

My Mother's Day Card Creation!

Hello! Last week before Mother's Day, we created a mother's day card for our mums or for our aunties or grandmothers. Our cards are made from string and thick black paper to make it. 

We started off by ruling a beautiful heart shape sketch to the black paper using a pencil and a cutout piece of paper. Next we punctured holes following the sketch of the heart, we got a wooden skewer and some string to weave it in the paper, though you have to be extremely careful not to rip the paper or puncture too much holes! It doesn't take a long period of time, by putting effort and time to it im sure you'll be able to finish it in under a day. 

For finishing touches we of course created a letter using paper trimmed to be atleast smaller than a normal A4 paper. We wrote our draft in our writing books,  next wrote our note making sure the handwriting was neat, decorated the paper with little drawings/sketches or maybe colouring in the paper to make it look brilliant! 

Here's a photo of me holding my card!:

My Extremely Staggering Whale Art!

In Week 6, according to my post last week, it was Sea Week! Our class created a presentation about information you have to know about our chosen marine animal! For it, I chose a Sperm Whale, if you haven't seen my previous post. Please do check it out! I will give a link to my Sea Week presentation. Anyway, we created an art of a whale using dye, this art was inspired by an artist named Michelle Fleur, who draws thousands and thousands kinds of whales using watercolour/dye!

Moving on to how we created our art, we started to experiment with using dye on scrap paper. Next, we created a sketch of the real art and used a model of a real whale to guide us. After, we used dye to colour the creature, and for finishing touches.. we used white paint to draw the 'rorqual', or the lines under the whale starting from its throat and to its stomach. 

Here's my whale art. Thank you for visiting my blog!
Link to my previous post: Sea Week Presentation

My Japanese Art Remake

For my class' CyberSmart learning we started our "Summer Learning Journey". For this year we had a art task, this includes choosing a famous landscape/place or a famous art (Link: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/art-coloring-book/1QGsh6vSfAQBgQ?hl=en) . For my desicion I chose the art with the name "Woman combing her hair". This art was made by Gо̄yo Hashiguchi, born in December the 21st 1880, died in February the 24th 1921. He designed 14 woodblock prints and is from Kagoshima, Japan. 

For this task we had to choose a famous art/landscape and recreate the colours using our own style, here's mine at the top while the original art is in the bottom 

                                                                                

 

TESA Gisborne Essential Worker art

Here in Gisborne, NZ we had a drawing competition in TESA Gisborne where children drew their own art for the frontliners who worked hard daily to serve their countries. I joined the competion and I won 2nd place, voted by the people, and here's my art.

ANZAC Artwork

This is a late post since this activity was supposed to be done by this Tuesday but it's Friday today, So this is my ANZAC Artwork.

20.9.2019 - St. Mary’s Green Gold Enviroschool Medal

Yesterday, The 19th of September 2019, was Silver Reflection Day, It was the day that everyone was excited about, Kauri and Kirsty were going to award our school Silver Enviroschool medal. Our school was as clean as a gem, later on it was the welcoming ceremony we sang different songs and the boys from the whole school did the haka and the boys were as serious as thunder there were students from campion, some of them studied here at St. Mary’s a long time ago. The enviroschool team did their amazing speeches in front of the whole school. After that we had our last song and all of the classes left, our class (Room 3) was the last class to leave. After leaving the wahi nui we moved on to doing arts and crafts. Some of us brought toilet paper, soda bottles, egg cartons, CD discs, yarns, jam jars and beads.  Firstly I did the DIY planters out of soda bottles, I made a Pandicorn (Part Panda, Part Unicorn) and even before I made did the painting I designed how the pandicorn was going to look like in the cut soda bottle, after designing and drawing I had the perfect design so I picked a soda bottle that I would use and then I started cutting the soda bottle and painting it, took me morning block and the middle block to paint and later on in the afternoon after I finished painting I dried it and placed it in a newspaper so that I wouldn’t get paint all over my desk. I moved on to the Manu Tukutuku. (Kites made out of bamboo sticks) Ms. Wagner brought us the Toi-Toi (Bamboo Sticks) that we were going to be using for the kites, we each grabbed 2 toi-toi, we also needed a brown yarn to tie the toi-toi up and a scissor to cut the toi toi we needed to cut the toi-toi as a size of our arm. While we were making our kites Kauri and Kirsty came to our class to talk about our waka (including the silver enviroschool team) but they’re almost running out of time so they rushed to visit the next class, so we packed up the classroom and by the time of 2:25 we did our prayers and by the time of 3:0) I went to the bus line to wait for the bus to come to pick us up, the next day Miss Hickling announced that we were awarded a green gold enviroschool medal instead of silver enviroschool medal! Our class especially the whole school was happy, our school was as happy as a sunny day.