Artwork

For our Reading we were learning about artwork, using different art tools and using shapes to create pieces of artwork. The artwork I had recreated was "Cafe Terrace". It was fun doing as I got to recreate it with tools on Google Drawing, being able to trace certain parts as well as create other parts with the shapes available on the app. It was fun doing, as we got to use other colouring tools such as Coolour. 

Outside the box

LI: To think outside the box, be creative and complete the picture

This challenge was to think outside the box and be creative by creating a picture from the lines that were drawn on the DLO. To complete this task we were asked to continue the drawing and create an image.

I made this challenge even better by timing myself to draw. I had 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

Nothing was hard but the time I had to draw.

Summer Haiku

 For this activty I had to make my own summer related haiku.

A haiku is a type of poet that has 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables again.

My haiku is about eggs and how they can be cooked and how they are the best food in summer.

This activity was good and relaxing to write a summer haiku.

Optical Illusion | SLJ

For this activity I made my very own optical illusion.

Before making the illusion, I learnt about illusions and how to make them. My illusion is called the literal illusion. It is a two images in one. 

When starting the illusion, it soon gets frustrating by picking another one.

Some illusions don't get confusing but some do. For me I can see both pictures because of thins the illusion isn't tricking me.

This is my illusion:

Kowhaiwhai Pattern | SLJ

 For this activity I made my own kowhaiwhai pattern.

First we learnt about Tanerore. Tanerore is the son of Tama-nui-te-ra or the sun and is the personification of shimmering air as he performs a haka for his mother Hine-raumati.

We watched a video if we saw the wiriwiri. Then we watched a video about kowhaiwhai patterns. There were two choices to make. The first is to make the kowhaiwhai on a scrap piece of paper and the second was making the kowhaiwhai pattern digitally.

After watching the two video, we started making our kowhaiwhai pattern. In our kowhaiwhai pattern we had put colours that were related to summer or Tanerore.

I picked summer.  My kowhaiwhai pattern represents how the day starts or other words dawn.

Here is mine:

Insect Art | SlJ

Hi, my name is Davey and I am a dragonfly made by David. The materials that David use to create me was dead leafs, sticks, grass, and small pieces of grass. 

The way David create me was unbelievible, he put the stick and the leafs together. Then he put another two leafs below and put the long piece of grass below the four leafs.Then he put the smaller piece of grass for the antenna.

David had two choices to make, the first one is making a summer scene and the second one is creating a insect. David picked making a insect so David made me.

Art Collaboration

For the past three weeks, LS1 has been collaborating with each other to complete an art piece of the Gruffalo cover, which is the text that we have been using to practice the strategies inferring, connecting and visualizing.

First, we were given different parts of the cover to colour in. We did this art piece using pastels and an art technique called 'blending'.

We discussed our ideas of blending and what it is. Blending makes colours fade into a darker or lighter shade. Blending can also make a colour fade into a different colour.

After that, we began to colour in our part of the art. We talked to other groups about the colours and worked together to make sure the art piece matched up to fit correctly. Groups talked to each other about the colour of the path, the grass, the trees and more.

The art piece has now been coloured in completely and is on the LS1 wall for display.

I enjoyed collaborating with other groups and learning how to blend colours. One thing I think I could improve on is knowing how to make different kinds of shades with the blending technique on different mediums.

LI: to collaborate with others to finish a group art piece.

LI: to know how to blend colours with pastels.