Zentangle Art

While we have had nga kararehe (animals) as our topic, we have been learning about the lines and strokes of creating Zentangle art.  A few students did this in the classroom at school, but many have carried on with this task at home.  What wonderful creative pieces they have produced!  Tell us what you think?

This is Leevy's  Butterfly:

This is Kinae's komodo dragon:

This is Heidi's hen:

This is Meesha's Stag:

Map of stories

Kia ora.  At the beginning of this term we started to research our community.  We begun with the Treaty of Waitangi and what it meant here in Mawhera, Greymouth.  We used the Map of Stories resources from @schoolkit to create some found poetry art based on the art of Tracey Tawhaio.

First we looked into  our town and shared our ideas on this padlet.

Next, we began to find some words and newspaper clippings that would help us tell our story.  We thought about theme colours to use and the kinds of pictures we wanted to use.  Once we had all that it was time to put it all together.  This was quite tricky.  Mrs Bellis had created an exemplar for us to follow which helped.  The painting was messy and we layered so much it took a long time to dry.

This is what we created.  Tell us what you think :)

Learning about Pablo Picasso

This term we have looked at Pablo Picasso and his different art styles.  Did you know he had a period of four years where he only painted in shades of blue or green?  He has many different styles that he can paint.  We did our own research and then we created our own portrait using one of his styles of Art.  have a look at what Leevy, Alyssa and  Meesha created!

SPACE ART

WALT: Create artwork using new and mixed materials.

We have been lucky enough to have Granny Waters in helping us with our art. We used a mix of flotrol, silicon water and paint and we dropped our paint into a cup from different heights  We chose a lot of interesting colours and put a little of each colour at a time.