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.

Lots of different SUBJECTS!

THE CIRCUS IS IN TOWN in about three years. It's so long. >:(

But seriously,  today we had a circus PERFORMER come and talk to us. She talked about her seven month tour and she had some videos of her at circus Aotearoa. When she was here she told us how they set up the tent and that there was no age limit, so next time kids say "I'll run away and join the circus".... they actually can.

Today we also went to our patterns workshops, so I went back to migration patterns. We talked about the people migrating to Australia from Pakistan and places. Then one of the questions we had was how do they pay the smugglers.


I have an idea

Sand Money!!!!

Custom Glitter Text

MIGRATION it might just sound like a bunch of random letters but it's actually a word and no I'm not fooling with you. Migration means when a group of people or animals move to a different place for reasons that include: Natural disasters, money, work, war and many more. We had to identify pictures and figure out what type of migration they were. There were sections like prevention of migration, migration by boat/truck. When they do that they risk their safety because there is a high chance that the sharks could get to them first, but it would have had to of been better then their country. Animals migrate mostly because of food and water, then that is when the hunters leave to follow the animals. Today I learnt that things and people migrate because of many different reasons.

Term 1 and 2 Reflection sheet

WOO HOO the reflection sheet is done. Then Darryn calls me own to the mat and says the reflection sheet doesn't contain enough information, my mouth dropped on the outside. I was calm but on the inside I was saying "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" I just got out then he pulled me back in. So I proceeded to the mat with a laptop in my grasp. Then when I got down to the mat it wasn't that bad then I started working REAL hard. I just kept thinking after this it's all over. Then when I  had finished it  I tried to send it to Darryn then the unbelievable happened!!! My mail STOPPED WORKING, then it came up with a notice saying that is was logged in somewhere else so just as I started my hunt the music sounded it is just clearly not my day. I learnt that you should just do what you can fast.