Painting a Photo

Today I Painted a picture that I took. It was 5:00 at night and I was driving past the water tower. I love how the picture is dark, moody and gloomy. All the different colours in the sky complement each other. I don't know if you can see, but the clouds look quite good how they drift into the sky and then just look like they're drifting. I don't like clouds that just look like they've been placed there. It was hard to figure out which half I should make dominate the picture. I chose the shadows of the buildings.This is the actual picture.

I chopped a bit of the picture out to make it a bit more focused on the pole and the Water Tower in Invercargill.

 See ya next week...

BAAAAA BAM!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 

Doesn't this picture of me look so pretty and beautiful?! Oh, and there's my painting in there as well.

I was working on a different way to paint my tree. Instead of being precise, you can be a bit "free-er" with the brush. I did the background first, then put more colour onto it. Then I layered the foreground and made it darker and darker. Then the trees, and lastly the trunks. Painting is my Passion Project, and if I paint enough paintings I could get a space in the Invercargill City Art Gallery.

I love the trees in this painting because they are still neat, but in a messy way!

"Oh, Miss Heads...?"

Today I did a Student Led Workshop. I ran the workshop on Painting... (duh!) I was kind of bummed out at the start of the day because only Arnia was coming to my workshop. After Nicola showed us the Student Led Workshop board, (Nicola was our main teacher today because Darryn's girl was sick) some other people signed up to my workshop. I nearly jumped for joy, LITERALLY! Soon it was time to start the workshop. I started feeling a bit nervous, I mean what if no one really enjoyed it or liked it, or some people thought it was a bit random! I soon got over that though. I started taping there boards down... I thought I would only make them do back-ground washes because it would take too long to help them create a painting. I taped their boards down with masking tape into quarters. We did two techniques, wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry. We only used the three primary colours in water-colour. Yellow-Ochre, Ultramarine and Crimson. I had a lot of fun and I'm sooooooo happy because Pippa and Claudia are writing about painting!! Here is a few paintings and Pippa and Claudia's blog links!

Claudia's blog post

Pippa's blog post

I 'M AFRAID OF SPOONS!!!!

Sorry readers, I couldn't think of a way to start my blog post!! (FYI I am NOT afraid of spoons). 

Haley came in this morning and helped me create yet another masterpiece! (laugh out loud). I am sooooooooooooo excited for Student Led Picks!!! Next week I'm running a workshop on Art.

 I might teach them all about different washes. Washes are the backgrounds. There are Light to Dark washes, Gradient, Dark to Light and One colour washes. I love listening to the Drama group sing while I'm doing my Painting. Enrich is great!

Until next week...

Panting Painting Painting

"Painting... Painting... Painting.... All I can do is Paint... I love Painting...  Painting is how the world turns around... Painting is all I can talk about... LITERALLY" I said to myself as I started painting a picture. "Now you've got to use the whole brush, Katie, let it do its job," Haley told me. "Okay," I said. I am learning so many different techniques with Haley. She is sooooooooooooo helpful!!!! "So when do you think we would put the exhibition together??" I asked her. "Well," she said, "We need to have at least twenty paintings in the exhibit." Man.... I thought. Twenty!!!! I wonder if I could sell them?? "Haley," I asked. "Yes," she replied. "Do you think I might be able to sell some of my paintings??" "Well, you probably could but it all depends on whether or not someone wants to buy them," she said. YESS!!! I thought.... Hey.... What if I do sell them???? Then I could be RICH!! Some painters sell some paintings for hundreds of dollars. But you have to be pretty good at painting to sell some. That would be amazing if I could sell some. Well I'll just have to practise. You know what they say, ' Practise makes perfect'. I see how well I go next week...

Landscape complete!

"Ahhhhhhh, hello my dear friends". Last week of term one already. WOW!! That went fast. I can't bare to leave Enrich. It's so scary!! Three terms to go and then never coming back to Enrich, ever, again. :(
It's not far away at all.......... But still three terms away...........

On a happier note Hayley came in again today and together we created a masterpiece, (don't mean to brag). Here's my watercolour picture....




It's a landscape. I partically like lanscapes. Next term Hayley and I are going to look at painting an image of water. Then hopefully we will paint water with land. I won't hold you up, so see ya' next term.......

Right, I'm tired so I'm going to make this quick.

Today we went here, there, and everywhere around town because of Patterns. You may not think so, but trust me, there would probably be one pattern for each of the stars in the sky. 

Firstly we got split into three groups. Next we had a bite to eat. We had to get cracking because we had a lot to do. We went to the Library first because the Art Gallery we were going to was shut, (Great, NOT!). The main idea was to get photos of patterns and write them into their right category. People think there are only four category's for Patterns, Beauty, Order, Strength and Survivability. But I think there are five, Beauty, Order, Strength, Survivability AND Random. 

Anyway, after the Library we headed to Wachner Place. I found heaps of Patterns there - even more than my age, (but I'm only ten). We went to Countdown and then back to Enrich to grab our lunch. After our lunch, you won't believe this, but we walked, yes, WALKED to Queens Park, after walking for about forty-five minutes. We had lunch at Queens Park then looked at the museum's art gallery and toodled on back to Enrich and here I am. 

I better be getting on... (yawn)
See ya next week