Today we painted lasted weeks air dry clay sculptures.
We started by gessoing our sculpture so the paint didn’t mix with the clay because the paint is water based like the clay.
I then began to add layers our paint slowly to the clay, Because I was working with 3 smaller works I just stopped and started on the next one. I let each piece dry which game me the upper hand so i didn’t over do each little piece.
my pig like design turned into a cow like animal.
Todays task was create a sculpture that express your inner creature.
I first started with a few pages of sketches.
I then started. I just playing with the clay in my hands and worked towards my first piece.
I worked on this piece probably the longest of the three piece it was so little but it had a lot of detail in it.
The second design was more of a cow or a pig. it was a farm animal that was kind of cute and weird.
My last design/creature was half animal half monster or maybe it was neither. I have not complete it yet.
I loved working with my hands today. 🙂
Today we worked with Still life photography.
In my Still Life represents me in 3 simple yet meaningful items,
I loved learning about still life and doing the worksheet about symbolism.
I really loved today. learning about how something it’s so simple and the depth people actually see objects in painting. There is so detail in such little tings.
Today we used our logos to create a vinyl cut out to then we heat pressed it to a piece of fabric. I pressed mine to a hoodie, so I could where it often.
We did this for the morning only.
I really enjoyed this activity, I had done it Friday before. because of this I think it gave me the upper hand because I knew how to use the materials to my advantage and I had already seen what worked and what did not.
In the afternoon Karen ran a workshop on makeup artistry.
I was her model who got shot in the head. (HaHa)
I really enjoyed learning more about the different makeup and face paint.
I also loved eating the chocolate blood 😮
It was a very busy day but I really enjoyed the whole day.
Today we talked and did a questionaire with a partner.
Me and Karen worked together, to make each other’s logo or our own impression of the existing business logo.
In the afternoon we digitalised our logo and updated our blog.
I also ran a Japanese workshop in the afternoon. I spent a lot of time creating a powerpoint to show the class.
The powerpoint is below: JAPANESE
I really enjoyed teaching the class. It was great fun. i talked about all kinds of things such as, writing your name in katakana, origami and also discussing the Japanese alphabets. E.g katakana is for foreign words, hiragana is for classical and kanji is a traditional alphabet.
Today we looked at mono printing.
Riley did a tutorial on what we were going to complete today.
We then went on to make our own mono prints.
My first attempt I didn’t mirror the letter I used. I could of pushed or put more pressure in the corners of this first design.
In my second print i changed my design and didn’t use borers I think it made the design very messy.
The thrid print had too much ink! The design came through but was also very messy.
My last mono print I did I used straight edged corners and the pressure was equal. The ink was more equal distributed over the image.
I enjoy mono printing as it was something I’ve never done or even heard of before today. It was very messy but an enjoyable practical and hands on day.
Today Denise run an art therapy workshop. The task was to draw what we think right at this moment.
My picture was about being unsure if I will pass or fail my degree.. in the corner it says a+ or NA.
After that we created a tree that represents us. Mine is half full of cherry blossoms to show that I’m half Japanese. I have deep and many family roots. I have applies on my tree because I believe that I provide to those in need. I have the yin-yan sign on my tree because I believe that there is good in evil and evil in good. I also have a heart for my love and waves because I love the beach, it’s where I grew up.
In the afternoon we looked at recreating a Andy Warhol’s type of image using Photoshop. this design was a lot of fun but I think I could forever continue to add and change a lot of little details.
Today we looked at:
We looked at a power point on illustrative artist. for example Clare Owen,
Today we were ask was to create 2 pages of iterations
Iteration #1
We then went to work on completing 4 illustrative portraits.
They were:
Instead of Complete 4 different designs i tried to Create all 4 ideas into one final design.
I then turned into a digital drawing.
I scanned in my image and then I turn it into a vector in illustrator.
Following the class I then used photoshop to colour my digital image.
I would had done this image a lot different if I had the chance to recreate, I think time would of helped this design a lot.
I wrote my own pepeha in Maori and in English. I had to go back and research my rivers and mountain. I used the closest river and mountain from my shrine, which I had my traditional Japanese naming ceremony at. This is considered as special or as meaningful as a Christian/Catholic baptism. 
Using the adobe draw app on my iPad. I drew a self portrait using lines and different colours. I created these different colours by using the eye dropper tool and the photo/selfie I took. This drawing was meant to respresent one of Van Gogh’s self portrait. He used a lot more smaller strokes and uses a more monochrome colour palette of brown/yellow. If I was to recreate this artwork again I would use more dots and smaller lines to my advantage is well as creating a background. Van Gogh’s self portrait is very busy compared to my own design.
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