Monday, November 1, 2010

Extravagant Art

At school we are going to have an art sale. We have to do 4 pieces of art. Our first piece of art is Dot Art. You will find this type of artwork in Australia as it is of Aboriginal origin. this artwork is made up of single dots made by a toothpick.
Although it is Australian we made it our own by making kiwi icon pictures out of the dots. We also had to put koru’s or some Maori design in the middle. Our second piece of artwork was to glitter art. All of the art we did had something to do with New Zealand so this glitter art pattern had to be a  Maori koru or a Pacific  Island flower. we first had to design our own Koru or Flower.
Then we had to take 2 pieces of square cardboard and Draw our design on them. I taped the cardboard at the back and then drew my design on the front so I could connect the cardboard later on in the process. When I had finished drawing the koru I had to glitter the inside of it. I chose green for the inside and then I had to wait and let it dry.
When it finished drying (which took a day or so) I glittered the outside gold (Colours of the Springboks). When that dried We used black PVA glue to go around the pattern.
Our third activity was to draw a famous landmark in New Zealand and go around it in vivd and then dye the background. We had to do a sunset or sunrise background. Our 4th piece of artwork was were we had to stickle our piece of  black paper with green paint and then after that we had to stickle over the top of the dark green with light green. When the light green paint had dried we had to use long pieces of cardboard and short pieces of cardboard to make pohutokawa’s. When we had completed all 4 of those pieces of art we had to choose which one we wanted to sell at the art sale and  chose my dot art. The art is selling for $5 so please buy mine!

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