Calendar Art

For the past few days, Totara 2 have been working on their calendar art. Along with Totara 3, we began to study Tapa Art and the designs that are used on traditional Tapa cloth. We had a practice go, using just pencil to get the designs that we wanted. Once we were sure of what we were going to do, we drew our designs onto our pieces of art and then went over them with Indian Ink - which is something a lot of us have never used before. We found it quite runny but fun to use. We left our art to dry and then we stained the rest of the paper with tea to give the Tapa effect. We think they all look pretty cool and you can purchase these from the office.

Matariki

We have been celebrating Matariki in Totara 2. One of the school wide tasks was to choose one of the 9 Matariki stars and create a banner representing that star. We chose Waita as our star. Waita is the star that represents the ocean and all of the food sources that are found in the ocean. We decided to create a fun Nemo theme. Ella led the way and managed this project. Thanks for all your hard work Ella, we couldn't have done it without you! Come into school to see all of the classes banners which are being hung around the school!

Van Gogh Art

Because it was such a nice day yesterday Mr B and Miss Hines decided to take us up Arnott Heights to observe our town. We looked at the geographical features and talked about the Maori legend of the two tuatara drinking from the Grey River. We did some observational drawings of what we saw and from these drawings we are going to use them to inspire us to paint our own Starry Night in the style of Van Gogh. We really do live in a beautiful place!

Vincent Van Gogh Art Site

Hi everyone,

Here is the link to our Vincent Van Gogh art site.

Vincent Van Gogh Art Site

Art

For the first week of term we decided to brighten up our classroom. We chose to blend pastels as our background with some of us choosing cool colours and some choosing warm colours. Most of us then chose to paint a silhouette of a Nikau Palm. They look really effective on our classroom walls! 

Print Making

With Miss Trounson we have been making print blocks with ANZAC as the theme. Today we got to ink them!

Art in progress

As part of our ANZAC topic we have been painting poppies on a dark background. Here's some of us in the middle of finishing them. Watch this space!

Picasso Art

Our finished art works.

A+ Work

Check out Ashley and Maya's fantastic Picasso presentation! Pop into Room 17 to read the information they have found on Picasso! 

Well done girls, it looks awesome! 

The Art of Selfies

Selfies, let's face it, we've all taken at least one.. (Some more than others) and Mr Wood kindly showed Miss Hines an awesome way of turning our selfies into a work of art. We think they look pretty cool and if you want to see more, come along to assembly on Friday!

Thanks Mr Wood!!

Samuel and Kaia

Samuel

Brock's turned out amazing!

Josh with his and Ronan's selfie

David strikes a pose

Shemira with her and Bethany's work of art

Ella and Tasja

Alex and Ben claim they arn't artists...

Tonya and Latasha

Cheyanne went for the dark look

Luke and Bryce look like rock stars

Daniel is 'shocked' at how awesome his looks

Tristan rocks the peace sign

Kyia and Brydie's selfie looks fantastic!