Watercolour Painting

Today for art we have to write about what we have done over the term for watercolour. I've done many pieces but I can't find them. Watercolour is the easiest way of painting because you can rehydrate the paint after it is dried compared to acrylic paint after it is dried you cant use it again. There are 9 terms to Watercolour painting. Dilution is when you add water into the paint to lighten the colour of the paint. Glazing is when you apply thin transparent washes of one colour over another. Layering is when you apply premixed colours over another wash to change the value and intensity. Value or tone is when the range from light to dark of colour determine shadows and highlights of an object. Intensity is when the saturation of colour brightens or strengthens. Tint is when it's created by adding water to the original colour. The more water that's added the weaker in intensity. Movement is the effect you get when you let the water move the pigment across the page. Water into colour is when you use water to mix the paint on a palette then onto paper. Colour into water is when you paint the page with water first then add colour into it - the paint will only go where the after is. 

B&E

Last week we started Business and Enterprise. Business and Enterprise is a kete we do at school, we make our own products and sell them. The goal of Businesses and Enterprise is to be sustainable in different ways (environmentally sustainable, culturally sustainable, economically sustainable and socially sustainable). The people in my group are Aone (finance manager), Esha (marketing manager), Isabella (production manager), Chelsea, and me (CEO), our business name is Crafty Christmas because our goal is to make Christmas Ornaments and Clay rings. We are going to use pieces of wood and laser cut designs on there to make Ornaments, I also have clear Christmas baubles that I bought but still haven't used yet. We are up to date with our Business plan and the only thing we need to do is our finance application for the money which Aone needs to do since she is the finance manager. My favourite part about doing B&E is you get to be creative and choose what you get to do. 

Watercolour Painting

Today for art we have to write a blog post about the different techniques in watercolour painting. Watercolour is the easiest way of painting because you can rehydrate the paint after it is dried compared to acrylic paint after it is dried you cant use it again. There are 9 terms to Watercolour painting. Dilution is when you add water into the paint to lighten the colour of the paint. Glazing is when you apply thin transparent washes of one colour over another. Layering is when you apply premixed colours over another wash to change the value and intensity. Value or tone is when the range from light to dark of colour determine shadows and highlights of an object. Intensity is when the saturation of colour brightens or strengthens. Tint is when it's created by adding water to the original colour. The more water that's added the weaker in intensity. Movement is the effect you get when you let the water move the pigment across the page. Water into colour is when you use water to mix the paint on a palette then onto paper. Colour into water is when you paint the page with water first then add colour into it - the paint will only go where the after is. My favourite part of this was doing watercolour painting because I liked doing the water into colour then putting salt onto it after.

 

Holiday Blog - SPILES

Today for Hurumanu with Mrs Alpers we have to write about our holiday. We have to do write about our holiday using SPILES. The S - Social Activities, P - Physical, I - Intellectual, L - Likes, E - Emotional and S - Success. My favourite part of my school holidays was spending time with my family and having a break from school. I also was excited to come back because it is the last term of me being a year 8. My least favourite part was not seeing my friends for 2 weeks. When you have a holiday what is your favourite thing to do?

Social - Dad and I planted a Cherry Blossom Tree,

Physical - I went for a walk at the shops,

Intellectual - I was making edits and I learnt how to put on transitions,

Likes - I enjoyed doing diamond art with my Mum and playing Volleyball,

Emotional - I felt sad because my mum broke her finger, and I felt happy because I got to take care of her.

Success -  successfully learnt how to do a glass painting.

Lockdown Artist

Today we have to research about Henry Sunderland. Henry used to be a teacher teaching art at Hornby High School. In lockdown 2020 he made his own book Lockdown Island 2020. He likes gnomes and is a gnomologist. When he was teaching at Hornby High one of his students asked if they could put all of their old toys on a car and like a crazy teacher he was, he said yes. He glued all of the student's toys on the car and went for a drive. It went crazy it was all over the News.  Henry has won a total of 4 awards/achievements. After Henry retired he has been involved in a lot of creative industries and life experiences. Henry has worked as a children's presenter at TVNZ. He uses garden gnomes as symbols for environmental protection and awareness. My favourite piece of art he has done is the lockdown island 2020 because you can print it out and colour it in. Have you read the lockdown island 2020 book?

Drama Reflection

Today for drama we have to do a blog post about reflecting on what we have done throughout this term. I have learned different styles in drama and how to sing loud vocals without our throats hurting. I enjoyed playing games after we have done our work. The challenging part of this term in drama was trying to do our group acts in front of the whole class. I learnt about tragedy and melodrama. My favourite game we played in drama was Night at the Musem. 

I enjoy horror because its spooky and its fun to watch people get scared. I have seen the conjuring and conjuring 2. 

I enjoy violence because it gets intense but sometimes you might not be allowed to watch it because of age. I have seen the Avengers Endgame.

I enjoy melo-drama because the fights between the protagonist and antagonist. A melodrama I have watched Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin).

Annie Crummer - Ocean Moon/Hina Ki Tai

For the last two weeks in Wananga, we have been working on work related to Te Reo Maori language week. Our class has been working on Waiata Anthems. We had to create a slideshow about one artist on the Waiata Anthems site and answer questions about why they have taken one of their songs or created a new song in Te Reo Maori. I choose to do Annie Crummer she is a New Zealand singer, she is a Cook Islander but she was born in 1966 in West Auckland. She had a dream to become a singer and in her late adult life she found out that she has dyslexia, she released her first single at the age of 16. My favourite part of this task was learning about new singers in New Zealand.