Mondrian Art - Summer Learning Journey Day 27.

  Kia Ora/Hello,

Today for our last activity we had to make some art called Mondrian art. I enjoyed this activity because it was super fun because I like doing art and Mondrian art is a very interesting and really pretty art style! Mondrian art was created by Piet Mondrian, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan was a dutch painter who was known for doing the best painting in the 20th century. He was born on 7 March, 1872, and died on 1 February, 1944. A fact about him was that he only used primary colours which were blue, red and yellow, he didn't even use a ruler to measure out his lines..! 

I found nothing hard except thinking where would I add more squares? But I think it turned out great and I like it! I think Mondrian art is very fun to do and at the end it looks/turns out way better than you think it may, some Mondrian art pieces even have meanings to them but I just wanted to experience the style before I got into all of that! I personally think anyone could ace the art style just because it's pretty easy and it's just a bunch of squares! I like this art style because you don't have to do anything specific, you can do whatever you want with it. 

What art styles have experienced? Are there any styles you recommended? I think I recommend realism, it can be hard but as long as you try..!

Here is my art:

Pixel Art Summer Scene - Summer Learning Journey Day 27.

 Kia Ora/Hello,

Today for our first activity we had to make a summer scene using a site called Pixel Art Maker, here is the link if you want to have a go! Click Here. I enjoyed this activity because it was really fun to do because I love to do art and pixel art is so fun. I found nothing hard except filling in the big spaces because you can't make the tip any bigger so you have to colour it in with one individual squares. 

I liked this app because it's free and anyone can use it where they are. In my scene I added a butterfly, a tree, a mushroom, a bench, some flowers, the sun, a frog and a small pond! My favourite thing I drew would definitely be the frog because I think frogs are so cute and I'm proud of myself because it turned out pretty good.

What is your favourite animal that's habitat is in/related to water?, mine would be a dolphin & frog.

Here is a screenshot of what I have drawn for this activity today: 

Summer Symmetry - Summer Learning Journey Day 21.

 Today for our last activity we had to play a game where we had to guess how many symmetrical sides can this shape make, here is the link to the site if you wanna check it out and give it a try: Click Here. I found this activity very exciting and fun because I like to do art and maths. I decided to try and do it digitally to make it easier! What I found challenging was rotating the images to be symmetrical. 

For this activity I also made some google slides about it to make much more funner. My favorite slide would be the Radial slide because it was pretty easy to make besides the Bilateral one. What one did you like? Do you know the differences between them? The difference is that the Radial symmetry generates identical body halves around the centre, whereas! The bilateral symmetry generates only two sides, left and right. 

Here are my google slides for this activity:

Digital Fruit and Veggie Art - Summer Learning Journey Day 13.

 Today for our 1st activity we got to do art but with fruit and vegetables! I choose to do mine on my chromebook because them I'd have access to more fruits I might've not had at home. The person who created this type of art was.. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, he was an Italian painter and loved doing art with stuff you find outside, books, fruit and vegetables.

I learnt that doing art with something other than paper and colours can turn into a masterpiece as well. What I used for my art was a watermelon for the head, blueberries for the nose and eyes, half a lemon for the ears, cherries for the earrings, lettuce for the hair and a banana for the smile! 

I've also included a couple of facts about the painter in my google drawing, here is the art that I made: 

Optical Illusion Art - Summer Learning Journey Day 3.

 Today for my last activity we had to draw an optical illusion. I drew one which looks like a tunnel of some sort and its going down. Optical illusions look really amazing and eye catching for art because it's the way their drawn. What I liked about this was that some of them are really easy to make like the one I have.

You also don't need to buy anything for most of them because most of the time you only need a pencil and paper!

They are really fun to do, it looks very smudged but it looks so trippy and cool to look at once you start to see it! Here is what I made:

Kowhaiwhai Pattern Art - Summer Learning Journey Day 3.

 Today for the activity, we had to do a Kowhaiwhai pattern and make our own. Kowhaiwhai are these patterns that symbolise different meanings like strength and more, you can find some Kowhaiwhai patterns inside some maraes on the inside of the roof with lots of different swirly pretty patterns.

The story of Kowhaiwhai patterns is someone named Tanerore, the sun. Tanerore is the son of Tama-nui-te-ra and he performs a haka for his mother, Hine-raumati. The "wiri wiri", the hand trembling action during the haka or waiata is a sign of the shimmering heat.Some Maori people believe when the land is hot that the air shimmer, they can see Tanerore performing a haka for his mother.

I liked doing this because I love art and it was really fun knowing you could create your own too. 

Here is what mine looks like: 

Floral Insect - Summer Learning Journey Day 2.

 Today for my Summer Learning Journey activity we had to make art out of things in my backyard like flowers or leaves! I mostly liked finding the flowers because we had quite a lot I didn't even know about. 

I tried to make a dragonfly with leaves and added a little background. I mostly used flowers, leaves and this thick grass we had a bit of in my backyard. I think this was really fun because it's free and you can make whatever you want. 

We were also supposed to come up with a name for our insect so mine is... Autumn because in some parts of the world dragonflies mainly come out in Autumn!

Have you ever made something out of things in your backyard? If so, what material did you like, such as flowers or leaves? Here is what I made!

Art Colouring Book - Online Art.

 Today for our Cybersmart lesson we watched a heap of videos that were about art and what makes art better and vibrant like textures and colours. We got introduced to a site called Art Colour book here's the link if you wanna go check it out and do some of your own art: Art Colouring Book .

I chose a pictures of a Japanese girl combing her hair because it looked really pretty. I enjoyed doing this because it was really easy and fun to learn and do, 

I found nothing hard besides colouring the flowers on her robe because it was a lot of clicks and very tiring.

Here's a link to the artist: Click here. It was originally created in 1920.

My art:

Goyo's original art:

Artnet Andy Warhol Collage 2#!

 In our Cybersmart lesson we had another fun site we could use! This one was very easier and a less of a struggle from the last one on choosing filters back and forth.

I found this one easy because there were only a few steps to follow, The link to this site is: Click here. Once you clicked on the link you follow the steps that it says but first you choose what type of image you want such as a PNG or GIF or something similar of your choice. After that you upload the image and for the "terms of use" you click yes, then click the big green button and scroll down to pick what effect you want then "Validate" and save your image! 

My inspiration was Andy Warhol, here are a couple of facts about him: He did a famous painting of Marilyn Monroe and that is HIS most famous painting. His colours he always used were: Red, Black, Yellow, White, Blue, Purple and green but they had to be bold colours.

Tracey Tawhiao - News Paper Art.

For the past few weeks we have been learning about an artist named Tracey Tawhiao who reuses newspaper, finds a word that means something to you. I had chosen the word "Succession" because I am aiming to be successful in things I don't know how to do or need improving.

I had found doing my patterns easier because New Zealand has many pretty patterns you can use like a Koru. I found avoiding the gaps in the paragraphs of the newspaper pretty hard.