Etching

Last Friday, our class started a piece of art called etching. Etching is very unique piece of art compared to other pieces of art our class tempted to do. It is really distinctive compared to the matariki art our class did and the theme was based on Vincent Van Gogh's art, starry night. If you want to perform etching yourself, you will have to pick a theme, the theme I picked was flags. To do this you will have to divide a piece of paper into three parts. (If you want to be creative divide in anyway, the parts do not have to be the same.) When you decided how you are going to divide it, choose three different colours for each part. The colors I chose were the three hot colors, red, orange and yellow. Next, paint the three parts and wait for it to dry, thereafter pick three other colors and paint over your three recent colors. Then use a popsicle stick to create your picture, but you will have to draw while it is wet. When you finish your piece of art, you get to witness how great your work turned out to be. Many artists have performed etching like, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Daniel Hopfer and many more artists.

This piece of art was made by David Hockney.

Robot Art

Last Thursday, our substitute teacher Mrs Kirby, did a piece of art with us using bright colours. We were inspired by the famous artist Karl Apple. We had to draw robots using different types of shapes, like a pentagon, a hexagon, quadrilateral shapes and other types of shapes. We then had to colour in the pictures and thereafter, we had to dye the picture in blue or green dye.

Using Hot and Cold Colours

This week, my teacher was on release on Thursday and we had to get a substitute teacher, her school name was Mrs Kirby. After lunch time, Mrs Kirby did a piece of art with our class and the piece of art we did was, using hot and cold, bright colours. She explained to us that, we had to draw horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines form one edge of the paper to the other edge. Next, we had a choice to use the cold colours inside the bird and hot colours in the background, or we could do the complete opposite. For every shape we make inside of the bird, then we have to colour that shape in one colour. When you move on to another shape inside the bird, apply the same thing but not in the same colour. We were inspired by the famous artist Karl Apple.

Te Tuhi

Last Tuesday our class got the opportunity to travel to Te Tuhi. As we arrived inside we had to wait for our instructor, and her name was Salome. We did surrealism and the technique was 3D collage and we had to use our imagination to create the piece of art.

Cotton Bud Autumn Trees

I found this art fascinating because we didn't use paint brushes, we used cotton buds.