Happy birthday Amelia!!

Our three birthday picture poses. 

Serious. 

Happy. 

Crazy.  

Hope you had a great birthday Amelia!

Art gallery

We had a fantastic day at the art gallery.

We learnt how to look at and discuss art. 

Artist Research

This week as part of our two week Art focus, we have each chosen one of five artists to research and create a slide show about.  The final step of our research project was to recreate a piece of the artist's work.  Then we had to figure out how to get a picture of us with our art work into our slide show using our Chromebooks.  We think we are pretty clever to have figured it out!

Guest artist

Today we had a guest artist come speak to the Kakapo team. Her name is Melissa Diprose and she works as a restoration artist in Mt Wellington. She talked to us about what defines art and who is an artist. Then she taught us how to sketch a nose. It was great to have her speak to us and show us some of her work like the painting she did of Mrs Nichol's daughters. 

Here is a link to her blog with some more of her artwork.  HERE

Google drawings

Today we learnt more about how to use Google Drawings. We looked at the work of Roy Lichtenstein and how he used colour and words to create powerful visual images. We brainstormed a large list of onomatopoeia words that we could use for our art.  After we created our picture we posted it to our blog, so be sure to check our out blogs to see our cool artwork!

Here is a link to the Google Drawing lesson.  HERE

Our letters

Painting, painting, painting 

Michelangelo Art

Today we joined our buddy class to learn about Michelangelo and how he painted the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City.  We talked about how he spent approximately 5 years laying on his back painting scenes onto the ceiling of the church in the 1500's.  After our discussion, we joined our buddies under their tables to try creating our own art while lying on our backs!  It was a lot of fun but our arms definitely got tired quickly.

Here are a few pictures of us creating our masterpieces and here is a short movie about our afternoon.