(James Bond music please?)

Hey my super-stealthy stalkers! Yes, I went stalking today again.... BUT WAIT DON'T GO! I'm not as weird as you think.... Well, not entirely anyways. We walked around town, us five kids in stealth mode and our grumpy supervisor Nicola, (she's not THAT grumpy). We also went to the Library, wondering if we would find any interesting people there, and did we find any? Oh yes, most definitely! I was writing down notes when I found all the missing puzzle pieces to a story. A 'interesting' lady, with her nose stuck in a book, travelling shop-to-shop asking for plum juice. Don't ask me why....... 

Until next week...... Stay St-healthy! (See what I did there?)

Stalker-walker

Hey friends, followers and complete strangers that I don't know! Thanks for reading my blog. This afternoon Pippa, Blake, Arnia, Sophia, Madison and I went on a little walk around the block, (Izzy wasn't here.) This was because we have chosen the Writer's Studio workshop. Now we get to spend the next four weeks with the amazing and talented.... Nicola Lynch!!!!!! We grabbed a pencil and got given a notebook, then started on our journey. 

While we were walking we saw a middle-aged lady with what looked like a giant's coat on. Nicola jumped up-and-down and shouted "She's got a million Chihuahuas in her coat." (She didn't really jump up and down or shouted.) "And whenever the Chihuahuas have to go pee she has to kneel on the ground." We continued walking around letting our imagination take over. One of my funniest ideas was of a guy wearing short-shorts with a tight leather jacket and sunnies, so I put down 'old dude trying to be cool but not working'. 

It was fun walking 'round town in the nice, hot sun, and hopefully I get to do it again!

See ya later! Katie.

Bits and Bobs

Hey everyone
Today at Enrich I did Behavior Patterns Part Two. We looked at Learned and Unlearned behavior. Some people try and change some things or someone's behavior for them, it can be mean at first but if it is for their safety, then that's fine. Parents can try and change their kids behavior with little things like sticker charts, pocket money or bribes. Pocket money would change a kids behavior. If they used manners, tidied their room, emptied the dish-washer, picking up toys, etc, they would get maybe $2.

Haley, my Art tutor, was busy today and couldn't come in so I decided to reproduce one of paintings I've already done. Here is the original:

And this is the one I recreated...

Pretty good eh? Oh, my, gosh! There are only 16 more days at Enrich - ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

Well, I better get going..... I'm taking a student led workshop! Wish me luck....

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...