Comics

This week we have been learning about how to write comic strips. On Monday we were given some small comics without words. We had to fill in the speech bubbles with a story we made up. It had to make sense with the pictures. Then on Tuesday our teacher's husband came in to teach us all about drawing. He is an artist. He also taught us about how to make up lots of different and original characters for comics.

After he had shown us a slideshow we got to work making our own comics. My first comic was about a character called Captain New Zealand. He's kind of like Captain America except he solves problems in New Zealand. On Wednesday he came in again. I did another comic. This one was about a girl who does a slideshow presentation. She tells her teacher that she has some special effects. Her teacher is okay with that so she starts her slideshow. It turns out she went a bit over the top with her special effects.

I found it really fun and can't wait to do it again.

Calendar Art

Every year everyone in the school has to make a calendar art. My class coloured in a piece of mindfulness colouring each.  After the long time of colouring and concentrating they were finished. The next thing we needed to do was on the back carefully draw our sun and suns rays. This was because we were cutting up our colouring to make a sun. It was great fun and I can't wait for our next art project. Here is a picture of my nearly finished colouring.

Rainforest Diorama

In the past two weeks every chose a habitat and researched it. Then when we had done some writing on it we got to make a diorama of that habitat. I chose to do the rainforest because I didn't know much about it and also because there are so many life forms. It took me three or four days to do it. In my diorama I put in five animals. They were a bird of paradise, a sloth, a snake, a fish and two butterflies. I also put in quite a few plants like trees, grass and bush. Here is a picture of my finished diorama.

Crosses

In art class, we are painting crosses. They are to be put around the school. First we had to plan them in our art books. Everyone did a few drafts. Then it was time to start painting. We had to do two base coats. I did mine orange. Next we had to put our pattern on. Mine was quite simple it was just a ying yang in the middle of my cross. I chose a ying yang because it is a symbol of peace and balance.  All I had to do was paint two coats of white in a circle then put the lines in with vivid. Here is a picture of my finished cross.

Art

In Art we have been learning to blend and mix colours. Mrs Drumond took photos of us and then used an app to convert them into drawings. Next she printed them out. Finally we coloured and blended to make realistic drawings of ourselves. It was great fun and I can't wait for our next art project.