Frida Kahlo Art

 For the past few weeks, my class was painting. The painting was a picture of a woman named 'Frida Kahlo'. She was a mexcian painter that painted self portraits. In her portraits, she usually painted herself with bushy eyebrows and moustaches. Did you know she had polio?

We used lots of colourful paints to paint her face. To make the flower(s) on her head, we used tissue paper. We folded the tissue paper back and forth like a fan. Then, we stapled the middle and then fanned the paper out to make it look like a flower.

I enjoyed painting Frida Kahlo and making the flowers. I also liked learning about Frida Kahlo and her life as a painter.

I didn't find anything tricky.

Turtles

 Today for one of our lockdown learning tasks, we were learning about turtles. We had to find facts about turtles. Thankfully, there were some sites we could go on to learn more about turtles.

For our create task, we had to draw a turtle and write 5 facts we learnt about them. There was a tutorial on how to draw a turtle, but I decided I would draw my own. After I drew my turtle, then I wrote my facts.

I enjoyed drawing the turtle. I enjoyed drawing it’s shell the most. I also enjoyed finding facts about turtles and learning more about them.

I found drawing the hexagons on the turtle’s shell a little tricky. It took some time but I got it done. I also found finding facts just a little tricky.

Here is a picture of the turtle!

Diluc Drawing

 Yesterday I was drawing at my bubble to entertain myself. I drew Diluc from Genshin impact, which is a game. 

Here is a little bit of Diluc’s backstory. Diluc had a father. His name was Master Crepus. One day when it was raining very hard, he and his father found a boy with blue hair, drenched. The boy’s name was Kaeya. Kaeya said “My father told me he would get me some grape juice, but it’s been over 5 hours and he hasn’t returned.”

Master Crepus and Diluc took Kaeya in. Kaeya was now Diluc’s adopted brother. They would play all day together! But one day, a ferocious monster attacked Diluc’s home, which was a winery called “Dawn Winery” his father, Master Crepus used all his power and might to defend his sons. In the end, the monster ran away but Master Crepus’s power had backfired on him. This meant that Master Crepus was deceased.

That is just a little about Diluc’s backstory. 

I enjoyed drawing Diluc. I enjoyed drawing his hair the most. He was one of the first males I have drawn in my sketchbook.

I found drawing the details on his coat tricky. They were fine and very small. Drawing the folds were also a small challenge.

Here is a picture of my drawing!

Maui Magic Jawbone

Today for reading, my class was learning how to present. We were watching a video about Maui and his magic jawbone given to him by his grandfather.

The video tells us that Maui obtained this jawbone by hiding his grandfathers kai/food from him. Maui wanted his grandfather’s magical jawbone and did this everyday until his grandfather gave into hunger and gave Maui his magic jawbone. 

One of the tasks were to draw Maui’s magic jawbone. I enjoyed drawing Maui’s magic jawbone. I really enjoyed drawing the rope and the small details. I enjoyed the shading and adding shadows.

I found drawing the shape of the jawbone a little tricky because there were many different ways to draw Maui’s magic jawbone. 

Here is the drawing!

Mary Assumption word cloud

Since there has been a new COVID-19 case in the Auckland region recently, the whole of New Zealand went into lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 furthermore. 

Today my class had a google meet to continue our learning at school. Our teacher showed us what to do. We had 3 tasks a day to complete, and the one I am blogging right now is religious education.

In religious education in my class, we were learning about the assumption of Mary. This is when Mary died. God thought Mary was a very special woman because she said “yes” to God. She said “yes” because she agreed that she would bear God’s only son, our savior and lord, Jesus. 

So, when Mary died, both her body and soul would go up into heaven, just like Jesus, her son. The task was to create a word cloud. This word cloud could include words like “Assumption”, “Heaven”, Mary” and many other words.

I found creating the word cloud great fun. I liked that I got to choose the colors and words I could add into my word cloud. I also enjoyed that it was simple and not very complicated. This was the site I used to create my word cloud.

https://www.wordclouds.com/ 

I found thinking of words a little tricky. There we’re lots of great words, but I simply could not think of much. Other than that, there was nothing more challenging.

Here is my word art!

New Zealand Mascot

 For the past few days, my class and I were designing Olympic mascots. We had to somehow incorporate  a element of NewZeland in our mascots. We used a app called 'Chrome Canvas'. This app was already pre-installed on our chromebooks.

Thinking of a idea was probably the hardest. There are lots of areas to cover before you can design your mascot, plus we had to somehow incorporate NewZeland into our mascots. I decided that my mascot would represent the Paralympics part of the Olympics.

I enjoyed designing the mascot and giving it's personality. Coloring the mascot was also enjoyable. 

My mascot's name is 'Rā'. 'Rā' in Maōri means 'Sun'. I gave Rā no arms, because he is a mascot representing the Paralympic games. Rā always has a bright outlook on life, despite he is differently abled. Here is a picture of Rā, my Paralympic mascot!

Samoan Language week!

 This week was Samoan language week! To celebrate, we had our lord's prayer in Maori to Samoan! Also as part of the Samoan language week celebration for our class, we made some art! 
Our teacher said that we would make a tapa cloth. There was lots of patterns to choose from! We used something called 'Sugar paper' for our base. Sugar paper is HIGHLY absorbent, unlike normal paper so that was perfect for our dye later! First, we drew our pattern on the sugar paper with a dark brown crayon. The crayon contained wax so when we put the dye on, the dye wouldn't seep through the crayon.

I enjoyed creating my tapa cloth, although it took a bit of time and I kept making my lines too thick! Other than that, I was satisfied with my work. I found making the lines not too thick EXTREMLY tricky. Our teacher said we couldn't go back and restart though. 

Here is my tapa cloth!

Sketches

 For the past few weeks, my class was learning how to sketch with the help of tutorials. Our learning intention was that we were learning how to shade, showing the shadows, and the light. At one point, the whole lost their first sketches, and we had to restart.

As we progressed with our sketches, we eventually found our old sketches! Some of us completed our old sketches, while others decided to not. I enjoyed sketching, even though it was a bit hard, and took a bit of time.

The character I chose to draw was Shoto Todoroki from My Hero Academia. I did two different ones, because I lost my old one, which took longer (larger picture) and my new one (smaller picture) took less time.

What do you think of my sketches? Please tell me in the comments!
Here are my sketches!

Nau mai, haere mai

Nau mai, haere mai!

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I look forward to sharing my learning with my school,

my whānau and friends everywhere.