Walking

Today I went for a little walk from Enrich, to the Warehouse, then to Briscoes, then to the city Art Gallery, then back to Enrich! So now my legs are tired..... Why did I go for a walk around town, you may ask? Well, as you know I'm putting together an Art exhibition at the Art Gallery, so Haley and I were out looking for frames for my paintings. We had a look at Briscoes and the Warehouse for frames, and then we went to the Art Gallery to book a wall. The exhibition will be at the start of December, and will be up for two months. I'd rather do it then, because I could have time to show my class and also friends and family. This would be better then having my art up for three weeks and trying to rush to go and see it! 

So I shall "see" you next week...

Sunrise or Lily Pads...

Tache, Tache, Tache! Well, today I did Painting................. You know, the usual. But it was different painting today, not watercolour. We took a look at Claude Monet's paintings, but mostly Sunrise and Lilypads. Two of his most famous paintings.

I had already done Lily pads last year so I got to do another painting leading on from that. The reason why these paintings look so cool is basically because of the brush strokes and tache, (touch). We chose to do vertical lines for the water and horizontal lines for the sky or lily pads, (depending on what you chose). You also mix the paints on the canvas instead of the pallet...... 

Well, I've got to go home now, but I'll post again next week.....

(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!