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Monday, November 2, 2020

Negative space pour: Blow & Kiss

Negative space pour: Blow & Kiss

W.A.L.T: How to pour, blow and kiss an acrylic painting

Introduction:

During shared book and art, Mr Pickard gave us another art project for the tops of our desktops named, Negative space pour: Blow & Kiss, with a childish like technique: using paint, straws (for the blowing part) and balloons (for the kissing part). Before we got into the project, the class (including me) had to prime our boards (meaning to put a base coat on the boards, preferably the colour white) to stop the paint from just sitting in one place and sinking into the wood. 

What we did:

After that he made us watch a video showing us the techniques used in this piece of artwork, using the blow and kiss techniques. If you would like to watch the video just click the link: Negative space pour: Blow & Kiss. Then we lined our desktops with no longer needed newspaper, and we were given an ice-cream container (that we flipped upside down), a plastic cup (to hold our coloured paint), a serviette (to clean the paint off the balloon to stop the paint turning into a muddy mess), two straws (for the blowing) and a balloon (for the kissing). Then we got straight into it.

The colours that were available were: Blue, Yellow, Black, Red and White. As we lined up to collect the colours that we thought were the best, there would be an option to either add Rubbing alcohol or not (Rubbing alcohol gives your paint cells, which adds depth). First we were given a cup full of white paint to dump on our canvas (this helps your paint to spread easily on your canvas) then we lined up again to collect our coloured paint. As we went through the line, once we got our colours we would dump the colours on the canvas, then line up again for more colours. After we went through the line for paint, and we were satisfied with our colours, we went straight into the kiss and blowing techniques. 

First we would of blew the paint toward the middle of the canvas, trying to spread the paint as far as we could, then we would get the balloon and start dabbing the balloon on to the paint on the canvas, and after every dab, it is best to clean your balloon with your serviette to stop the canvas from turning into a muddy mess. 

Here is what my piece of artwork looks like.



Reflection:

I really liked this artwork. It was really fun and really easy to do. I really loved the outcome of my artwork. But the down side was the limit of space that we had. We only got the space on our desktops, which is really limited.

Question:

Would you like to ask me a question on my artwork, any feed forward and feed back would do.

I hope you enjoyed!

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Logic maths puzzle

 WALT think outside the box 

This optical illusion is a paper illusion. The illusion contains paper, Mr Pickard tricked us into doing some thing that includes maths something like some sort of logic maths puzzle or something like that. This puzzle is really confusing and can break your mind even just thinking about it but even just looking at it you mind is just twisted because you think about how could such a big piece of paper fit through such a tiny gap. But overall you are just confused. 

First you have to fold your paper over length ways, then you cut 3 slits on 1 of the sides and 2 on the other.Then you just have to flip either the left or the right side clockwise and there you have it a really confusing illusion.

Through my point of view it was really confusing on how to cut it and where to as well. If you don't like getting confused I don't really recommend it?

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Pointillism. First attempt at pointillism

This is my first attempt at pointillism art.
W A L T: We were learning to create a piece of artwork, If you can't see it
My pointillism artwork it is a apple (Note to self never using vivid on ANY piece
of artwork IF needed use a fine point) Pointillism
is a art style that lets you create pieces of artwork with
tiny dots put together.
and usually if you do it right it will look like a picture
from a distance.
While attempting this pre-used art technique I felt that
it was really difficult even though
I have used this a couple years back for a pet day and it
didn't help that the vivid was a bit to thick for my suit.
Even though that it may just look like a little pieces of scribbles
but in my eyes I see progress for my never learning art skills
for pointillism!
Hth

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Reading partnership book review.

Boney the MONSTER

This is a drawing of a monster that I Drew and named Boney.




Facts about Boney:
He was created as a unicorn but the scientist making him knocked over a lever that send a radioactive gas into the pen of his creation but when he knocked it over nothing happened so he flipped the lever back up and that is when the radioactive gas was let into his pen/cage and while the scientist was struggling he flipped another lever witch let a kangaroo into the pen/cage that the unicorn was in and they started to fight because of the radioactive gas. And as they were fighting the bit at each other, ripping skin off chipping teeth, pulling out bones and damaging each others skin/fur. And as the scientist was still struggling he flipped a lever which merged the two animals together and created Boney

Friday, April 24, 2020

Cooking with me

Cooking with me

 Cooking sweet and sour chicken, fried rice and egg foo Yong.

Ingredients for the batter for your choice of meat:

BATTER FOR SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN
1 cup of flour
2 tea spoon of baking powder
1 cup of beer
600g of chicken breast

Method for the Chicken and batter:

You can either shallow fry or deep fry.
First preheat oil to 170, then place you flour into the bowl withe baking powder. Now add the beer to mixture and mix with a whisk till runny when you lift the whisk and the flour clumps have disappeared. then coat the chicken (or your choice of meat) in a little bowl of flour, shake off excess flour. Drop chicken into the batter and coat evenly over the chicken with tongs or other utensil (or meat of your choice) and place int the deep fryer. cook for 4-6 minutes each side (or till golden brown) and drain the excess oil off. Keep warm until you have made the sweet an sour sauce.

SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE
Ingredients for the Sweet and sour sauce:

3 table spoons of water
2 table spoons of vinegar
2 table spoons of soy sauce
2 table spoons of tomato sauce
1 1/2 cups of pineapple juice or orange juice
1 table spoons of soft brown sugar
1/2 an onion (diced
1 table spoons of cornflour

Method for the sweet and sour sauce:

Over high heat add the water into a pot and blanch the onions for 5 minutes. Add the soft brown sugar and tomato sauce to a saucepan or pot and mix in well together. Now add the cornflour and combine well. Bring to boil for 2 minutes. Once boiling add the pineapple juice and mix well. After a little reduction add vinegar and the soy sauce. Cook for 5 minutes. Add more vinegar and soy sauce till your taste buds are satisfied. Pour your sweet and sour sauce over your chicken (or your choice of meat) and serve with cooked white rice.


FRIED RICE
Ingredients for the Fried rice:

600g of steak
400g of chicken (optional)
1/3 cup of olive oil
1 table spoons of oyster sauce
3 table spoons of soy sauce
3 cups of cooked rice (cold)
1 onion (diced)
1/3 cup of mixed vegetables

Method for the fried rice:

Fry meat and onions in some of the oil for 5 minutes. Then remove the meat from the pan and add the mixed vegetables to the pan with the onions still in. After the vegetables (if frozen) have softened for 2 minutes, then add the rice and remainder of olive oil. Now add the soy sauce and oyster sauce, blend in well for 5 minutes. Then add the meat back into the pan and mix for 2 minutes then serve.


EGG FOO YONG
Ingredients for Egg foo Yong:

8 eggs (your choice)
1 table spoon of olive oil per egg
1/2 an onion (sliced thinly)
1/2 a cup of mixed vegetables
300g of sliced steak

Method for the Egg foo Yong:

Over high heat place you steak and onions into a pan (or skillet) and fry for 5 minutes. Then crack your eggs into a bowl and add the olive oil and salt and mix well. Now add the mixed vegetables to the hot pan (if using a skillet boil the vegetables in a pot of hot boiling water) and wait until softened. Then add the egg mixture to the pan and wait 5-7 minutes to flip the egg mix (if using the skillet place into a preheated oven. Cook for 5-10 minutes longer to cook then serve with the rest of the recipes.


ENJOY



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Monday, February 24, 2020

Billionaire boy

Billionaire boy by David Walliams


From the amazing author David Walliams brings another amazing book…..                
Billionaire boy
Joe spud is the richest twelve year old boy in the whole world.


He has everything he ever wanted like a Formula one car, Indoor swimming pool, A crocodile but all he wants is…. A friend. As Joe is a  billionaire boy he goes to a fancy school, so for Joe spuds 12th birthday all he wanted was to go to a regular school where he can make a friend or two or maybe three friends. But when he finds out something….

This book is an amazing book full of energetic characters. Joe spuds back story is really jaw dropping how he went from living in a little shack to living in a massive mansion from his dad making special toilet paper.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Apple shading

Apple shading
WALT     We are learning to drawing an object with shading and using a soft pencil

Today we were learning how to use shading properly in pictures. First we watched a video on shading, the video was teaching you how to shade and teaching you about different parts of the shading area. There are 3 different parts of shading, there is the core shading, occlusion shading and the cast shadow. The video taught us about how to control the movement of our hands and arms. It also taught us how light balances the pictures and how some lines can make the picture pop out of the piece of paper. If you want to try and draw this apple you can try your self at Shading

I think that I did really well at the drawing and the way that we had to draw an apple from a circle. I liked the way the video was easy to follow and to understand.  

  


This is my masterpiece that I drew.