My Opinion About Lockdown 2021

For me lockdown has been a bit stressful for me because as a student you have to do online learning and do google meetings with our class, and you can’t go anywhere. It has also been good because I get to spend more time with myself and my dad and I get to help him around the house. I get to do art and crafts, learn how to do different things and go outside and play on my trampoline. I also miss my friends and hanging out with them and playing volleyball. It's boring staying inside the house all day (other than going for walks and bike rides) and I wish I could just go back to school and do P.E. and my sports tournaments.

Lisa Carrington

Last week we had to write a draft blogpost about Lisa Carrington. We had to answer questions on a doc. Lisa Carrington was on the news because she won gold in the 500m Rowing. Lisa Carrington is from New Zealand. Lisa Carrington was born in Tauranga In the North Island. The province city she grew up in is the Bay of Plenty. Lisa Carrington's iwi is Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou. The satellite town she grew up in was Whakatane in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Lisa attended Whakatane High School. She attended Massey University, which is located in Palmerston North. Her Olympic event is Rowing. She has successfully competed in Rio, Japan, London, Beijing, and Hungary. Her partner in Rowing is Cailin Regal. She has achieved 5 gold medals and 1 bronze. Beef and Lamb NZ and Southern Cross Health Society. The Club she attends is the Eastern Bay Canoe Racing Club.

NZ Olympic Athletes

For the last couple of weeks, we have been making slides about NZ Olympic Athletes that competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Me and Aaron worked on this together we had to do 5 different athletes and since we worked together we had to do ten in total. My favourite part of this was doing the slides with Aaron because we can help each other when we got stuck. I enjoyed this because we got to get creative with our slides and choose different people from NZ competing for NZ in the 2020 Olympics.

Impasto Painting

Today I have to answer some questions about impasto painting. Over the past few weeks, our art class has been doing impasto painting. Impasto painting is one of the easiest painting techniques you can do. You can easily express your emotions, make abstract and can do many more things with impasto. Impasto means a painting using a palette knife, a thick paintbrush to apply thick strokes of paint onto your canvas, but it mainly means painting with a thick layer of paint. You can express emotions by doing impasto painting you can do this by using warm and cool colours or by painting what makes you happy or sad. Van Gough was one of the first people to use the impasto painting technique because he did use a thick paintbrush or a palette knife but he used his fingers to create the starry night.