Custom Glitter Text

OOOOOOOH NOOOOOOOOOOO I just realized what the day was! Today it was the last day of Enrich EVER!!!!!!! Well I guess this would be  a great time to reflect on what has happened over the last three years. There have been ups and downs - we had some highs, and don't get me wrong,  we've also had lows.   There has been photography, talent development, passion projects ,Wilson games, Technology Challenge, Mosaics, Blogs and so much more. But in the end, the thing I am going to miss the most is all the people and learning opportunities here at Enrich and I would just like to say it was an honor to be here.

Mandala

Today we made some Mandalas I know what your thinking how can you make Nelson Mandela but I mean Mandala the ancient Buddhist art. It is an art where you just let your mind flow and there is no such thing as a mistake - that was music to my ears. You start with a seed then link it off like a flower it is a very addictive art. You can do it with a pencil, pen,vivid and even sand. It is a mathematical art when I first heard it I thought how could maths be art? Be the I realised that all the lines have to be the same but just like I said there are no mistakes, unless you make one line bigger than the other. Then you just make up for it next time.  The Buddhist's made it out of coloured sand that they gathered from all the 4 corners of the world. Every single Mandala has a different meaning and I doubt you can make two the same.

Technology

Today the most exiting thing happened!!!! Not really but anyway today we learnt about how to keep yourself safe using technology. We learnt about keeping our persona safe and what's appropriate to post and what is not. Nicola who was our teacher for this segment. She told us about this website where it has clips and games that show you about the result of posting to much private or personal information. She also informed us about the creeps that live out there and how they to take advantage of people. So now we know the minuses of posting to much online.

Jackson Pollock

You are probably wondering who the heck is Jackson Pollock he could be a scientist, magician but he is not any of those he is an artist. He is not just any ordinary artist he was the artist who uses drip painting  it is a form of art when you still use the brush you just don't touch touch the canvas. You might be thinking "How can you paint without touching the canvas?" well thats is what drip art is. You start by drowning you brush in the colour you want (light colour's are the most effective) the you splotch it around the canvas to make blobs you leave the brush over it and the make lines you move the brush very fast over the canvas or paper. We started by doing it on a sheet on the top of the tarpaulin in case the carpet got paint all over it. Then we had four colours to chose from orange, purple, green and blue. For starters I chose orange the blue to make the two colours combined and from then on I just went crazy at one point blue then orange followed by green before purple but in the end it all paid off. I thought we were done, then Katie dropped a bombshell on us... We had to do more. But it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be we just had to create a outline in black for something we were going to fill later. I couldn't think of something so I just did a combination of shapes. We also found an online website were you can create your own digital image here is the link http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ Here is my online one:

As you can see it's pretty carzy

Editing

Today I had to apply all my changes to my story. I was thinking it would take like 20 minutes but instead it took hours and now I have piles of pages beside me. Darryn was my proofreader. He found the little mistakes that I would never find. Anyway, I had to change images, text and even some layouts. Long story short, I completed my editing.

 We also had a technology challenge and we had to make a chair that could hold a big wooden frog out of newspaper and masking tape. Our teams chair was kind of looking good then when we were moving the chair, disaster struck and the legs fell off and the chair ripped and finally when we got to where we were supposed to be, it really looked like a heap of trash. So, our team didn't end up winning or even getting close to winning!

Patterns in Art

Today in the world of ENRICH we did patterns in art but we didn't do any boring work we went into the city!!!! We went to art gallery that for some reason in nearly every piece of their art had a piece of red string in them. We also looked at art in every day life that you, sometimes wouldn't even notice. In a totally unrelated note my affective domain assignment is going well, just thought you might like to know. Now back to the patterns in art subject we also looked at statues everywhere and found the patterns in them. 

IT HAS PRINTED

It finally emailed and printed. If you are wondering what I'm blabbering on about, it is my story! I finally, nearly, sort of got it finished! YAY! Now I just have to edit it and order it.\

But aside from passion time, today we did our patterns workshop. I was in Migration, and today we talked about Genetic Engineering and how things evolved. I learnt that you can take one white feather of a blackbird to make a pure white bird.

No that's not the end of this post. We also worked on our affective domain gifted study and I changed  my presentation idea to a POSTER-BOARD. I'm pretty sure it's going to blow everyone's mind, (I hope).  Also this is one of the images that I am going to use for my poster-board of Abraham Lincoln.