Frida Kahlo Art

At the end of last term we started some artwork. This artwork is inspired by Frida Kahlo. We made a portrait of her. We firstly drew her face, hair, eyes, lips and accessories. Here are some facts about her, She has a monobrow, Frida was six when she got polio. She got is a serious accident causing her to be in hospital for about 5-6 weeks. She sadly lost her life on the 13 July 1954. I enjoyed painting and making the flower. I found it trick to do the eyes because when I put layers on the eyes, it did not look right. Here is Frida Kahlo! 

Tapa Cloth

Talofa!  Because It is Samoa Language week we have been doing some art. In Samoa they have things called Tapa Cloths. They are made with Flax and they weave it through to make a mat. So with our artistic skills we created our own tapa cloths. We got some inspiration from a photo of what to do. We found the design we wanted and they with brown crayon and then once done you go over with dye. 

I found it easy to dye over it because it was a simple task.
I found it tricky to press hard with the crayon because it was a lot to do so my hand got sore.
Here it is

Sketching - Art

We have been learning to shade and sketch. For the past 3 weeks we have been sketching Anime People. I chose Hinata from Haikyuu Because he is my favorite person from that anime. While doing this It was very frustrating to do the eyes because I could not line them up properly. Shading was the most funniest part because I it looked nice when It was shaded.

Here is my sketch I hope you Like it!

Te Kurī a Pāoa Pastel Painting

For the past few weeks we have been learning about Pāoa and Kiwa and how they came to Gisborne. When Pāoa and Kiwa went near Young Nicks Head (which is what it is called today) It was called Te Kurī a Pāoa. because it looked like Pāoa's dog. When Captain Cook came to Gisborne he called it Young Nicks Head. We made some art about Pāoa's Dog. We had to blend and make colours that we didn't have like green. Have you ever used pastels to do a painting?
Here is my Te Kurī a Pāoa Pastel Painting

Digital Art work

Today for cybersmart we are starting our summer learning journey. We went through some videos to see what we had to do. We went onto this link called Art Colouring Book. There are lots of choices to choose from like a wave like I did and flowers and many more. Then you can click on the one you want and if you want to you can see the original photo you press the photo icon that looks like two mountains.

It comes up with the original photo so you can try and copy it if you want to.

I enjoyed trying new colours to put on the wave.

I found it tricky to copy the image because the colours aren't going where I want them to go. 

Here is the original

Here is mine

Ruru Art

For 2 weeks we have been doing art. It is a Ruru (Morepork). We used dye for our ruru's. We had to blend the colours in to make a feather look. We used dark green and purple for the background, We also used blue and green for the body. And red or yellow for the eyes! 
I enjoyed making a google drawing about my ruru art.

I found it tricky to make the photo straight when I took a photo.

Next time I would change the colours of my ruru arts background if I could.

Here is my ruru art!

Henri Matisse Artwork.

Today we were learning about Henri Matisse
He is a painter from france sadly he died on the 3 November 1954.
We used primary colours and had to mix the colours to make our own we had yellow, white, blue, black, green, purple and other colours and we had to use white to get a light direction.
We outlined out artwork with black pastel.
I enjoyed painting the background and the table
I found hard to paint around the guitar.
I would change the colour of the guitar.
Here is my art.

Old famous art made out of laundry

Today we did art we were doing old famous artwork from laundry.
I enjoyed making the painting out of laundry.
I found tricky to find the right colours because i did not have brown or orange.
I would change the colours, at least i tried.

Recycled Milk Bottle Elephant

This is my milk bottle elephant i made from a 3 litre milk bottle
I enjoyed gluing the Cellophane and easter egg wrappers on.
I found it challenging to to cut the milk bottle into a elephant.
I would change some of the colours on the elephant.