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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Negative space acrylic pour with blow and kiss





W.A.L.T: create an acrylic pour using negative space and the blow and kiss technique.

Last week me and my classmates each made a stunning acrylic pour. The pours that we did were negative space pour, which means that there is a lot of white in our painting instead of lots of colour. For our acrylic pours we also used the blow and kiss technique for the majority of our paintings. This is when you blow the paint outwards using a straw creating a pretty ripple effect, that looks similar to feathers. The kiss, is when u press a blown up balloon onto the wet paint and lift it off, the result looks a little like flowers. Most of us only did a few kisses on our paintings though.

These are the supplies that we used to make our pours.
  • Paint (white or black and any other colours that we wanted.)
  • A large triboard panel
  • Straws
  • Balloons
  • Plastic cups
  • Paper towels
  • Rubbing alcohol (optional)
  • Newspaper
The first step we did to make our paintings was to paint our triboard panels white to make sure that when we pour on the paint it wont warp. The next day after the panels were dry, we covered our desks in newspaper and put an ice cream container on top of the newspaper. Then we put our panels on top of the ice cream container so that when we did our pours any access paint would drip off the side onto the newspaper. When we had finished doing this we filled a plastic cup up with white paint and then poured that paint all over the board. We then tilted the board around so that the white paint went all over the board. After that we refilled the cup with any paint of out choice doing a few pumps at a time. If we wanted we could add a bit of rubbing alcohol in between the layers. For a few cells amongst our paintings. Once we had finished with that we poured out all the paint that was in our cup some where on our painting, (preferably close to the corners), and started blowing it out with a straw to create this cool rippling effect that looked a little like feathers. Once we thought that we had blown it out enough, so that there was still a desirable amount of white left on our canvas, we blew up our balloons and pressed them down a couple of times across our paintings. Then we were done! Most of us continued to make little changes to our paintings before they were dry to make sure that they were just right, but other than that we were finished.

Overall I really enjoyed making these acrylic pours, and I hope we get to do some again in class. I do think that my pout turned out pretty good in the end and am happy with the result.


If you had been the one doing these painting what do you think you would have done differently, and what would you change about mine if you could change anything?


Leave your feedback in the comments.


Thursday, June 11, 2020

Pointillism Apple

W.A.L.T draw an apple using the art and drawing technique pointillism.

This week our teacher Mr Pickard started a new art project for our shared book and art session. He decided that this week we were going to be doing pointillism. Pointillism is a form of art that uses many dots, that create shades and highlights with the object you are illustrating. The object we were asked to draw was an apple. We could either do this with colour or a pencil. I decided to use a pencil Because I thought it added more effect. How we did this was we drew the outline of our apple either in colour or pencil. Then we decided where the light and dark areas were going to be. We also drew out where the shadow was going to be, based on the position of the light. Once we had sketched out all the essential areas, we started to draw lots and lots of dots, adding more in the areas where the shadows were. If you are thinking of doing this yourself but you want to do it quickly, then I suggest you draw something small, because the larger your drawing is the longer it takes. You can also do pointillism with paint, this is actually the most common pointillism technique used by famous artists, here's the link if you want to check it out; Pointillism Artists.

I found this activity pretty enjoyable and definitely want try it again sometime!
Would you try pointillism?

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Seed Collections

W.A.L.T: identify and describe different seed types.

Yesterday we went down to the wetlands. What we call "the wetlands" is a place next to our school teeming with plants and animal life. We collected four seed types down by a wide river that runs through the land. We stored them in tins until we came back to school and inspected them, here are all the seed types that we collected...

1) Kowhai seeds

  • small and yellow
  • bead shaped
  • covered in multiple circle shaped seed coverings when hanging from a tree
2) Liquid Amber seeds


  • spiky on the outside
  • colour ranging from green to brown
  • suspended on tree by thin wooden twig

3) Karo seeds

  • small, sticky and black seeds
  • encased in a circular wooden covering with deep indents
4) London Plane Tree seeds

  • outside covered in pin sized wooden circles
  • fingernail sized wooden seed in the middle of coverage.
  • seeds covered in light brown fluff that look like a dandelions
  • suspended on tree by thin wooden twig
The pictures for each seed are displayed beside the text in the order that the written classifications are. The reason we collected the seeds is because we are going to plant them in these paper pots that we made out of newspaper and once the shoots have shown we'll plant them in the ground along the river as part of our wai restoration project that my class is working on.
Me and my class mates found it super fun trying to figure out the types of trees that the seeds were. Me and my group were so excited once we had gotten them all right.
Do you have any seeds that are around your school or house? If so, make sure to write them down in the comments!

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

My Stop Go Animation

W.A.L.T: create a stop go animation using household resources.

Yesterday I decided that it would be fun to make a stop go animation for my inquiry. So I got out my I pad, downloaded the stopmotion app, then gathered all the props that I was going to use. I decided that for my stopmotion I was going to use colouring pencils (the colours of the rainbow), my pencil case and a sheet of white A4 paper. Once the app had downloaded onto my I pad, I opened it and started a new project. After that I placed the piece of A4 paper on the floor so that it would act as a background, then I positioned my I pad so that the camera could only see the paper. I took my first photo. It was just of the paper so that it set the scene, then I slowly moved the pencils into the frame taking a photo each time I moved them. I did this throughout the whole animation until I had finished it. Once I had, I uploaded it into this blog post.

I really enjoyed using stopmotion to create this animation, I'll definitely be making some more later this month. I think I'll do a classic one with Lego and I'll ask my brother if he wants to help me create it. I recommend that you try out the stopmotion app, as it's completely free (unless you buy premium), is super fun and easy to use, and only takes about ten minutes to make.

What's your opinion on my animation and do you have any suggestions for something I could animate next?

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

How To Make Flower Banners

Flower Press Banner
During term 2 I have been making flower banners. Here is a list of the things that
I used to make them… 

  • Paper, big enough to cover the fabric that you are printing the flowers onto, I used A4 printer paper

but you can use scrap paper or even newspapers.

  • Flowers, I find that flowers that are more delicate or that have brighter colours print better onto the fabric.
  • A hammer
  • Two books, typically ones that you won’t mind being damaged, I used my math books.
  • A needle and thread, this is to sew the trims of the banners and the top fold that allows string to be
pulled through ultimately creating the banner.
  • String, to hang the banners on.
  • A sewing machine (optional)
How you make them… 
First you want to measure out how big you want your fabric strips to be, I made mine about 30cm by 20 cm.
Secondly, find a hard surface to hammer the flowers into the fabric, it should be outside as to minimilize
the mess but don’t use a table as you be banging the hammer on top of it. Once you’ve found a hard
surface, lay one of your books on top of it then place your strip of fabric on top of that. Choose what
flowers you're going to use and lay them down on the fabric. You can do this randomly, or put them all in
specific positions. You can even take off the petals or leaves from the flowers and use them as well. After
you’ve placed down your flowers, put the paper on top of it so that it covers all parts of the fabric are
ontop of the flowers. Finally put your second book on top of it. Grab your hammer, and starting from the top of
the book, hammer on top of the book repeatedly slowly going back and forth until you reach the bottom.
Make sure that you hit the hammer hard, so that all the flower juices stain the fabric. This should take about
2 minutes, so it’s best to set a timer. Once you're done hammering, carefully take off the book on top and
lift the paper off the fabric. The juices should have stained the fabric, if they haven’t it will be because the
flowers you chose don’t have enough juice and aren’t as fragile. The way to fix this is to hammer it again
for another minute. Once the paper is off, remove the flowers and get to work on sewing the trims. It’s not
very complicated to do, just fold over 1-2cm of the fabric and then sew a back stitch on the edge of the
fold, which is just the basic stitch. If you want to go the extra mile you can also trim the banner with a zig
zag stitch, but I recommend that you use a sewing machine for this one. Do that on all the sides of the
fabric except the top. When that is finished fold the top over, so that 4cm of it is on the back of the banner.
Stitch the bottom of the fold using the back stitch again so that it forms a hole in which you can put the
string through. Now you're finished! You can make as many of these as you want and put the banner on
your bedroom wall or another place into your house that is in some need of decoration. Another idea is to
make the banner into a word, e.g make five banners, on the first one write S one the second M, third I,
forth L and fifth E. Which spells out smile.

I really enjoyed making these quirky little banners which I hung up in my bedroom above my bed. I
think that it added an extra splash of brightness to my bedroom, and I hope it does the same to yours.

What flowers do you recommend that I try for my next banner and what do you think I could improve on with the one that I made?


Tuesday, May 19, 2020

My FlipaClip Bubble Popping GIF


For around the last two weeks I have been working on this GIF as a project for inquiry. I made it using an animation platform called FlipaClip. First you open a new project, then decide whether you want to make a movie, a GIF, or basically anything that uses moving animation. I decided to make a GIF and I did mine of bubbles popping and reappearing. I made this short GIF with 25 different slides, on each one I changed the movement and size. And even though it seems short it took quite a while to make, even though I didn’t work on it nonstop. Next you draw the base of your animation on the screen using your finger, then add another slide and - since it leaves an indentation of the drawing from the previous slide on it - you can trace over it or draw something completely different, it’s up to you because after all it’s your animation. Finally keep adding new slides until your animation is complete, once it is click publish and either make it a GIF so it plays over and over again or publish it as a video. It gives you the option to share it and you can definitely do so if you want but I just saved the finished product to my photos.


I think that it turned out pretty good in the end, so I’ll probably make another one sometime soon. If you want to make one too, make sure to download the app FlipaClip on a mobile device so you can make amazing animations as well!

What do you think about my GIF, and what do you think I could have done better with it?

Monday, May 18, 2020

1st Drawing Of My 30 Day Drawing Challenge


W.A.L.T Draw your favourite animal.

This week I started doing a drawing challenge. It's a challenge that goes on for 30 days and each day during that period, I have to do a drawing following the rules of the day. On the first day the rules were to draw your favourite animal, so I drew a snow leopard which is my favourite. I made it's chest and belly white and soft, then decorated the rest of it with leopard print, and yes it is a male, but if you want to draw one based on this drawing but as a girl you can easily modify the drawing by adding eyelashes or changing other features. You can also do yours in many different poses and with lots of different facial expressions. If you want to start doing the same drawing challenge that I am, then I pasted a photo below of it.

So far I been really enjoying this challenge and a lot of decent art has come out of it. I think that it's much easier to have prompts that help me to decide what I'm going to draw, and these prompts are the best of the best. Tell me what you think about my drawing and the prompts on the challenge, and if you decide to do it as well, then make sure to post your drawings down in the comments.

What do you think I could have done better with my drawing?

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

How To Make Slime

Slime
Ingredients:

  • PVA Glue
  • Shaving Cream
  • Borax (crystals or powder)
  • Food colouring/gel
  • 1 cup of boiling Water
  • Bowls and spoons
  • A teaspoon
Method:

  • Pour a cup of PVA glue into a bowl.
  • Add a cup of shaving cream to the glue and mix until fully combined.
  • Now's the time to add the food colouring or gel, get creative, mix the colours together or keep the plain you can also add a little glitter to make it sparkle.
  • Just make sure you don’t add too much food colouring or gel otherwise the colour will stain your hands when you play with the slime.
  • Once the mixture is combined, boil your water. You can do this in a kettle but if you don’t have one of these you can boil the water in a saucepan.
  • Measure out 1 cup of the boiling water, and a teaspoon of borax to it, mix well until no traces of the borax are left, be careful not to splash the water and borax on your skin while mixing.
  • After that keep adding the borax and water liquid (one teaspoon at a time) until your slime groups together but is still sticky.
  • Scoop out the slime and start stretching it once it’s only a little bit sticky, add another teaspoon of the liquid then play with it again for a while until it isn’t sticky anymore.
  • Once you're done playing with your slime, put it straight back into the container you’re keeping it in, and wash your hands with soap and hot water.

    CAUTION:
    • DON’T get the slime on your clothes or any fabric surface.
    • Slime is NOT an edible material, DO NOT EAT, it contains borax which is a poisonous substance when eaten.
    • To wash off clothes, put the clothing under a hot running tap and rub with your finger until all traces are gone.

    Warrior Cat Profiles


    For my second art project, I decided to make up warrior cats and give them profiles, so that's what I did. First I lined out the boxes that I was going to draw my cats in. Then I decided a name for them based on what they looked like and their personality. After I had decided what position the cats were going to be in, I drew them and coloured them in here are the ones that I did. Then I decided what clan they were going to be in, I had made up four clans, CloudClan, StormClan, IceClan and SunClan. I made up symbols for each clan based on the real ones from the books. Then I wrote the information about them beside the picture. The headlines I decided to include in that was:
    • Their name
    • Their age (in moons and years)
    • Their gender (tom or she-cat)
    • Their status in the clan
    • What clan they were in
    • If they had an apprentice and if they did who they were
    • Their litter mates
    • Their mate and if they had one
    • Their parents
    • What they looked like and any distinctive features that might make them unique
    • Then I also did their personality
    Though keep in mind that it's much much easier to make your profiles once you have read the book, but it won't we a waste of time, the books are REALLY GOOD!☺️☻
    Tell me what you think about my profiles in the comments.

    My Powtoon On The First Book In My FAVOURITE Book Series

    For my reading I had to make a powtoon on a book that I had recently read, and since I had just started reading my favourite book series again, I thought it was a fun idea. Powtoon is a website where you can make awesome animated videos with text, images, videos and lots more, you should really check it out if you don't know what it is already. Either way, here's the link to my powtoon -> Into The Wild Powtoon
    I added lots of special effects, different types of fonts and images that related to the topic and more stuff like that. And I think I did a pretty good job. Check it out for yourself, write your feedback in the comments, so that I know how I can improve my work next time I make one, which will probably be soon. Overall I think the my powtoon turned out great and that it really expresses my love for the series, watch till the end to see what I put on the last two slides. Thanks for reading this post, and hopefully you will try out powtoon, AND the warrior series, for which Into The Wild is the first book. What do you think I could have done better with my powtoon?

    Thursday, April 30, 2020

    Textures Art Activity

    While my class has been in lock down, my teacher has been setting us fun and exciting tasks for school. One of them was to find a art activity or colouring sheet and do it, then post it on your blog. So here I am doing that. What I decided to do was this textures worksheet that I found on one of my teachers blogs. I thought that it would be fun to try draw different textures that I hadn't tried before, one thing I was particularly excited about doing was the snake skin as I thought it would be quite intriguing to try and draw. But for most of the other boxes and circles I added my own spin onto the topics.
    For example, for the horse fur I did zebra fur as a zebra is still practically a horse. And for the "make this ball look like a rock", I did stone bricks, the only big difference is that there are multiple rocks instead of one like the instructions said. One of the main reasons I chose to do this sheet, was because of how it looked. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. Anyway here's what it looks like.
    On the page It had 5 boxes and three balls to draw the textures in. It also had two questions to answer about texture. The first one was what is texture? My answer to that was...
    Texture is the feeling or appearance of a substance or surface. The second question was, how can we draw textures? And I wrote down "by using different shades and shapes". I really enjoyed doing this sheet. It was super fun to draw all the textures and to think about how the textures were going to look. I actually learnt a lesson doing this sheet, that it's okay to twist the rules around a bit to let your creativity flow and break the obstacles in your path of art. I really recommend that you try out this activity sheet too, if you like drawing then I guarantee that you'll find it as fun as I did!☺️
    Texture Activity Sheet Link

    Monday, April 20, 2020

    How To Make Feijoa Juice
    Prep time: 15 minutes
    Serves: 8 glasses
    Ingredients:
    11 feijoas
    2 tablespoons of sugar
    1 ½ tablespoons of honey
    2 cups of water


    Method:
    1. Start by picking out your feijoas. I used eleven but if you want your drink to be thinner or thicker
    then you can change up the ratios.

    2. Next cut your feijoas in half, then use a spoon to scoop out the pulp from the inside.
    You can put them straight into the blender but I preferred putting them into a small bowl.

    3. Once you’ve finished scooping out all the pulp, tip them into your blender - unless they were already in there - and add the water, sugar and honey.

    4. Turn on the blender, checking it every now and then to see if everything is combined.

    5. Once the mixture is smooth and no lumps of feijoa pulp is left, pour into a bottle or jug and put into the fridge until served.

    6. Enjoy! Serve with ice cubes and a sprig of mint.


    Tips:
    1) Double the mixture if you are wishing to make a large batch, blend for longer.

    2) Feel free to dilute the drink with one part juice on part water if you are used to subtle drinks.

    3) Use a serrated knife to cut the feijoas in half, and a medium sized spoon to scoop out the pulp.

    4) When you first start blending the drink, do it with the pulse option then move onto the other continuous ones.

    Wednesday, April 15, 2020

    First Art For T2

    Top - Berry Milk Carton
    Middle - Aesthetic Betta Fish In Glass Bottle
    Bottom - Hand Holding Twig


    Monday, February 24, 2020

    Book review on Curse by Joseph Delaney

    Curse
    Written by Joseph Delany
    Illustrated by David Wyatt


    Curse is an ambitious thriller written by Joseph Delaney, that will send you on a roller coaster of a ride as you read through this intriguing book. It's the second book in this amazing series containing 13 books hopefully with more to come.

    Thomas Ward is no ordinary boy with a mother of mysterious background and a father like every other man. After he is apprenticed by the county's spook and sent packing, his future leans towards the paranormal and the darkness creeping in the edge of his mind. But as they set off towards priest town for a funeral following the death of the spooks dead brother, Tom senses his master's true intentions are to finish off what he started 20 years ago in the catacombs underneath the cathedral, hiding what he expects to be the death of him…

    As soon as I started the first book of the series I knew that this was the series for me. I love reading the spooks series, it fills me with wonder excitement and thrill. The plot twists completely change your view of the story and the description of the events and and creatures help create images in your mind. This is why I Strongly recommend that you read all the books from the spooks series, I guarantee you won’t regret it.