Lockdown round 2

Hi everyone, hope you are staying safe in lockdown.  

It's been a while since we've been quarantined, and often being isolated at home can quite obviously get boring at times, so here are some ideas to keep you busy and content at home.

What do you do to stay busy in lockdown?

Aurora / Polar Lights

Kia ora everyone,

For our matariki studies we decided this week to also looked at the Aurora lights (also known as the northern, or southern lights) and created art on the two mixed. 

For many years, the aurora lights had been confusing scientists, some people thought it must've been because of a certain type of fox, running at the speed of light, and leaving a trail from its tail as it did so. Chinese historians believed that they were dragons, battling in the heavens. In reality though, they are pieces and particles from the sun, that break through the earths atmosphere, and glow in the cold night sky.

Sometimes they are very dim, and sometimes they are crazy bright, and light up the land for miles.

So- how did we incorporate matariki with the subject, and turn it into art-?

Matariki Explanation Animation

Presented By Choi-Boi Stations

Kia ora everyone, I'm back with another blog post!

Animators: Isabella S, Pandora H

Script Writer: Felix C

Voice actors: Felix C as the farmer and Tāwhirimātea, Pandora H as the narrator and side characters, and Isabella S as essentially anything else.

Since Matariki is coming up soon, we were tasked to create a short film or book to explain to the younger students in our school a little bit about what has been said to have happened, and why we celebrate it today. It had to be intriguing for the younger kids, and since heaps of people were doing puppet shows, we decided to animate sock puppets. It's not done yet, but we will update or make a new post when its done.

*I will edit the post soon and add the movie*

Blurb: Tucked away in a small village, a farmer tending to his crops gets a glimse of an extraordinary sight- no one believes him of course, but little did anyone know, there was something a lot more sinister going on behind the scenes- and it was real, very real.

Informative Inquiry

Hey Bloggers!

This term for inquiry we are researching about global issues.

First we had to create a word art about them, as presented here, and now we must watch videos about the subject we choose and take notes about them.

I'd write more but I started a bit late so there isn't much to say but that I choose to look up more about Poverty, and that you should sTaY cHuNnEd !!

What would you do yours on?

Koru Art :))

Kia ora bloggers, 

Today we were creating Koru art with Pastels, we shaded the Korus and died the background, I did the colours of my Korus blue and green, and died the background yellow to really make it "pop".

I did mine surprisingly quickly, but it was heaps of fun, now we are going to continue by creating Korus to hang around our neck with air dry clay, so stay tuned!

90 second art - 1 hour art

Kia Ora everyone!

For one of this weeks Friday tasks I was challenged to make a few of these 90 second colour push artworks ad combine them together and present them in a unique way.

Well, I created a few, but had a different idea in mind. I made about 6 and then chose my favorite one.

I then proceeded to draw a "digital sticker" of a character, and "stick" it on.

It took about 1 and a half hours, because I was kind of stuck for idea, and the sketch took ages.

I also drew the sticker on Firealpaca and made the color push on here.

Have you ever made a color push? Tell me in the comments!

Original Animals

So for one of our Friday tasks we had the option of creating our own animal.

I made a two-tailed fox, it's not the most original idea, but I didn't feel very creative today.

This species also has horns, apparently the bigger and longer the horns, the older the fox is said to be.

One particular blood-line of these animals have wings (cliche, I know..) and they are normally a lighter color of the animals original fur.

Mine's mainly purple, I drew her digitally on the app "Firealpaca" with a wacom intuos tablet.

Another activity I did today was a stained-glass window drawing/art piece, I was going to make a separate post for it but sadly my Chromebook camera isn't working, and I can't find my phone, so I might update this later.

Hey I have a question, do you like to make art? (I love to draw !)

Timeline art- Come on, it's not that sentimental, right?

Kia ora everyone,

Last week for one of our Friday activities we had to make a piece of art that was almost like a timeline. I can't find the example but it had to do with ANZAC day and first had 3 little boys playing, then in the next scene running into war, and in the final scene their parents graving their death.

I wanted to do something like this but a little less deep, maybe with a bit of humor.

The characters and drawings are bad and disproportionate, gross, but anyway this was meant to show that money and riches don't lead to happiness, or at least, not for ever.

Originally I wanted this to be funny but it ended out just sad.

I'm not happy with this oop.

What do you think?