Forest Reindeer

Galloping at full speed between the trees and over the meadow covered hills full of pansies and daisies..... stopping at the lake, drinking fresh cool crystal clear water......eyes dart from side to side, then once again into an elegant canter......antlers swaying with beautiful flowers and leaves just like a garland. That special pink nose, matching the roses and bubblegum pink tail there was a forest reindeer.....

Passion time. I first sketched out some forest reindeer as I called them. Just like a normal reindeer but with different features. Antlers festooned,  and different coloured noses, tails ...... I will make them into a picture and paint it but first I need to finish my dog painting.

A couple of weeks ago I traced a dog from my book and made it into a painting. I have just recently finished the grass but I need to add lilac, yellow etc. for the flowers because I think it will attract the eye. It's starting to look really good and I'm proud - but I'm even prouder of finishing my affective study! 

This morning I finally finished my Jock Paget affective study and I'm really happy with the conclusion. I have presented it on Prezi not a poster board. And I'm glad I did it online because it looks pretty good. It was the last session today to finish it and I was panicking I wouldn't get there,  but I did and thats good. "Whew" I hope you enjoyed my blog post and have a great day! :)

It Travelled

It left marks in the sand and trailed on. It travelled from Facebook to Twitter, TradeMe to Blogs. It trudged on even after my life-time. It would be alive forever.

My Digital Footprint.

My digital footprint is a symbol for internet safety. Like not sharing any personal details like you full name, address, number etc. We leant all about that this afternoon. Nicola told my group that your digital footprint begins before you were born and after you die. 

What is A Digital Footprint???

A footprint on the internet is a file that keeps track of everything you do online. Like if you signed up to Youtube it might come up with these series of questions...

*Name-

  Surname- 

*Online Name-             (the name of your account)

*Email-

 Address-        (possibly)

 Birthdate-

But you don't want to share too much. Too much information can be dangerous. Other people can track you down if you share you number and/or address.

Today I learnt lots of information including that a digital footprint actually exists,  and furthermore, it carries on after you die and before you were born. DO NOT share personal information and be careful on the internet.

Thanks for reading!

My Partner In Crime

My partner in crime stood beside me as we looked upon the sparkling jewels in envy. The hammer in my hand made contact with the window as we made a run for it, grabbing as many gems as we could... 

Just kidding! But Ali and I are having some mysterious ideas for some new art! Ali thought up a great plan! At Christmas we are going to go around the streets by Enrich and face painting kids faces with Rudolf and elves etc. $2 per child and of course were still going to sell our art... somehow.

I've also started to paint a little dog standing in a beautiful spring meadow. I got the idea through my book I got called Painting Techniques. It's come in handy to us a few times! I think our project is coming along great and I'm really excited! 

Bye! :)

Syria

The wind was subtle as the sun gleamed through the fingerprint covered windows. My fellow artist splattered paint beside as I swiped my brush...

Today for Passion Time Ali and I carried on with our art creations. For pattern workshops we are recreating Claude Monet paintings. He paints ponds with overgrown plants and lily pads with a bridge in it and he paints it over and over again. So I recreated that for passion time because I thought I did it quite good. I also managed to complete a horse painting and now we have 5 pieces in two weeks to sell! We might donate it to Syria or Green Peace but we haven't decided yet. I think it will be a success! :)

The Petition

My hands tapped the keyboard. Words flowed across the digital page. The lights were off and the black room became overflowed with ideas as I typed on my silver laptop...  

The last patterns workshop! The fun had only begun but its come to the end so quickly. I am writing a story about a dog named Toby (after my horse Toby!) and he can talk and I am on chapter three. It has been really fun going out around town to get ideas especially with out own notebooks! The writer do not want it to end and are going to start a petition! 

  My Gifted Person 

This morning we did some research on our gifted person. I brought my iPad to do some Pic Collages and designs for my presentation. I am doing Jock Paget a famous kiwi horse event rider. I am presenting it on a poster board and I'm really excited! 

      

Badminton

I swiped my pen across the white page. My finger creased around the red felt as it drew a jump. The light from the colossal sun flickered across the room as I drew my mind map...

Today with Darryn we drew our mind maps for a project were doing about someone we think is gifted and intelligent. I am doing Jock Paget, a famous kiwi horse rider who competes in national and international shows. He was the winner of the 2012 Badminton Horse Trials. On my mind map I wrote about dressage, show jumping, turnout and of course his beloved horses. Mind mapping is about thinking and letting ideas flow across the page. We also watched a video of Tony Buzan. He was talking about how important the mind is and how we need to let ideas fly.





 I hope you had a good week so far! Bye! 

The Next Stage

The scratch of the knife cut the zebra as the sun suddenly was blocked by dark gloomy clouds...

Art time!!!! Today we worked hard on our lino prints. My zebra was splattered by paint as I spread the blue musky colour around the background. We need to make ten one colour backgrounds then cut out the base. THEN we need to paint out main feature another colour. In my case a zebra. Cutting out the base took all of my time because it was very fiddly. But I am almost on the next stage which is painting my zebra. 

Calligraphy

The pen floated across the page as silence hit the room. I wrote Emily on the white blank page. My finger started to hurt as we carried on writing. I continued to write my pets names such as  Toby Marvin Daisy Bella  and more. Word art is calligraphy which is a fancy way of writing things. Like the font above. We learnt to write like that with Jenni today. The sun shone brightly outside as we carried on. I wrote Shiloh  Peaty and Jasmin. Amanda came past and told us about ancient Rome and how they wrote everything like that. They didn't have paper so they used Scrolls  and if they made the littlest mistake they had to start over. I enjoy writing calligraphy because it is some thing new and exciting. 

Bye!

Art, Art, Art...

Most artists express themselves through their art. Some are precise and some just though pant on the page, some make theirs thick and 3D and some like natural things to sketch. It is about perspective and that's what I saw at the art gallery. My favourites are clydesdale horses and parakeets. The art gallery smelled nice with a hint of fresh paint in the air (which there always is!) Lots of people flooded the art gallery as the sun reflected though the windows at the front of the art palace. When we got back we would do lino prints which is basically a big stamp. The cold walk back to Enrich was refreshing because the cool breeze danced in the air. When we got back we thought of ideas for our art. I was originally doing a horse head but now I am doing a zebra. The stripes would stand out better then on a horse. Darryn gave each of us a lino pad and we printed some photos. He explained that the point of the activity was the print, not the actual drawing. I have already put in on the pad. Bye! :)

How About A Healthy Salad?

The rain poured down on the windows and the roof of the Enrich building. The sun was not out and smiling, but it was a perfect day for art. On a wooden chopping board there laid a red and green pepper, a dark purple onion and two exquisite courgettes. Paper and pencils is all we need, no more paint just sketching. The sun was beginning to shine as we started on our sketches, the sound of kids rehearsing plays and the sound of keyboards filled the room and echoed in our minds. Everyone is very proud of their efforts today at Enrich and just before I started darkening my lines the sun came out from behind the clouds and shined brightly in the sky. Darryn is framing my picture so I thought you would like a look at it...

 Have a nice evening! :)

Lets Go To The Beach...

Sketching has one important rule, look. You need to look constantly at what you are drawing for a accurate Sketch. Darryn first got us to draw a balloon man holding balloons. As the sun outside hid behind the clouds and the rain starting hitting the windows we got started on our sketches. Afterwards he lay down a pear overlapping a banana. He drew it then put the fruit in the middle, and next he placed a load of bottles down and we got to pick which one we wanted to draw. The smell of spray-paint hovered in the air because for passion project some people were doing spray painting. I was struggling with the man-made set up as Darryn calls it so he placed two shells in-front of me and I started sketching and started thinking about the beach.

Warriors

Hey blog readers!!!

The chess pieces clattered in a heap on the black and white chessboard. The sun outside shone through the windows as I positioned my soldiers. My opponent was on the opposite side of the board. My knight hit the board with a thump as she dragged it away. I had lost one of my pieces so I took her bishop. The sun was dimming and hiding behind the clouds outside as I moved my king out of check. A booming started as the music played, we were rushing to get our game packed up. The sound of chess pieces falling into the container was like waves crashing against the rocks at the beach. The music got quieter as we sprinted down to the mat.

Watch The Time...

Paint shirts on, paints out and get started! For talent development I am doing art and today we are painting our apples. Afterwards at 12.00 we have to do our blog post. The smell of fresh and splattered paint scented the air like a minty air refresher in a car.

I have already painted my dark grey background (which is more grey then a dark grey) The sun outside was hiding behind the clouds as I got started doing my light green for my apple because apples aren't just red and shiny with the big stalk and the leaf, it has a very light colour under the faded red. Darryn always says light colours first.

After I finished my apple I moved on to the plate underneath. I made it white with a hint of black so it wasn't a perfect white. After I finished my plate the clock struck 12.30 and we were supposed to do or blogging at 12.00 so we have to watch the time...
 

Painting curves......

The pencil dashed around as we started on our apple sketches. The scent of fresh paint hovered in the air as I stared at the apple on the plate in front of me. 

The curves of the apple were the trickiest piece to draw. After practicing in our work-books we moved onto a piece of quality paper. We were handed our ice cream lids to mix our paint on after we sketched our apples and plates. 

For the background, we decided the best colour would be a dark grey. The clock struck 10:30 am as we were working on our drawings. The blazing sun blasted through the windows as my paintbrush stroked up and down. 

My colours merged together as I made a light brown for my stalk of my apple. Our shadows danced on the floor as Darryn showed us a video of a man painting an apple scene. I have not quite completed my painting yet but it was loads of fun. 

 

         BYE!!! :)

Art

Kia Ora blog readers! 
Today for art we were painting again. We were painting from dark to light today, and I did blue and red. Darryn said that it would be good practice for next week because we are painting landscapes! Yay! Side strokes are the best for art in this case, meaning when you are painting it's better to brush one way then all over the place eg. up and down. 


We also did a rotation of Keynote and P4C. My first rotation was Keynote with Katie. She showed us a keynote she made before her sisters wedding and it had photos of when she was a baby and when she had a mullet! Then we made a slideshow about ourselves including our dislikes, our hobbies, the places we want to go and likes. I learnt how you slow down automatic slides, how to fade a photo and lots more!

BYE! :)

Talent Development = Art

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a good Easter! :)

Today we got started on passion time or talent development. I opted into art talent development with Darryn. We focused on the basic primary colours which are red, yellow and blue and we mixed them together to get colours such as green, purple, orange and many more. We hope the outcome would be to put on an exhibition at a art gallery.I went into art because I would like to try something different and I do art quite a lot and I like to draw and paint in my free time.

BYE:)

 

Pattern Hunt

The summers sun hovered in the air as we walked towards Queens Park. The smell of pollen and leaves filled the air when we entered the park. The purpose for this visit was a hunt for patterns and how they come up everywhere. Here are some of the patterns we found...

Bridges
Playground material
Maps
Roses and flowers
Duck feathers
Spider Webs
paths
bricks
buildings
paths
and bark
Here are some photos I took...

The trip carried on from the gates of Queens park to the animal enclosures. There were lots of patterns surrounding us like animal coats, flowers and plants. A peacocks tail is the best example of a pattern for beauty as well as survivability, the four stages we had to fill in were B.O.S.S which stands for Beauty, Order, Strength and Survivability. The next stage of the trip were the Japanese Gardens the stand out pattern was the ground because they made it look like ripples from waves,  BYE!

Drama

Aloha blog readers, I'm not in Hawaii but I would like to be.Today we played four drama games, colour lines, one word stories and fortunately, unfortunately and the famous musical bumps. My favourite was one word stories so I'll start with it first. Three people sit up the front and make up a random story. When it was my turn there were fluffy houses, dragons and bananas. You were only allowed to say one word and you weren't allowed to say "because". 

Our next game is colour lines.  Six people stood up on stage with a post it on their backs saying their colour. They had to call out the colour and then make the audience shut their eyes and they would shuffle around in a different order. We had to call out all the colours so it was a memory game.

The next game was fortunately unfortunately. You had to go in a pair and one person would be fortunately and the other is unfortunately. An example would be 

I went to the supermarket,  fortunately now you have lots of food,  unfortunately it was closed,  fortunately you had tools to break in,  unfortunately I got caught by the police,  fortunately they were fake. And when we were finished some of the buddies came up and shared theirs with the class.

Until next time, BYE! :)

Caine's Arcade

I'm surprised that this boy didn't build his house out of cardboard and cellotape. His dad owns a used auto parts store and in the front of the building is Caine's arcade that he built by himself with cardboard and cellotape. After a while his mini arcade with only one game turned into a game PALACE with over 10 games. You can get a pass with 5 turns for $1 or a fun pass with 500 turns for $2. Caine never got any customers but I think he had a lot of determination because he never gave up and eventually a film maker came along for a car handle and he ended up playing in Caine's arcade with a fun pass. And this is how we found out about Caine and his homemade arcade. The film maker made a short movie about the game palace and he posted it on Youtube. He had over 3 million hits. And the film maker also got a flashmob to come to Caine's arcade which got people from all over the world to come to the famous arcade AND it was on the most popular news channels in America. Talk to you later, BYE :)