Having fun with Murals

Bonjour everyone!

This morning at Enrich we looked at murals as one of our ideas for our Environmental project. We could work in either a group or as an individual. I chose to work as an individual. We had to design a mural on a piece of paper that had all the Southland icons on it. Such as:

The Water Tower

Sheep Farming

Takatimu Mountains 

Oreti Beach

A River

Bluff Sign

Deer

And many other things! 

The idea of a mural is to make it look natural. Like not perfectly ruled out but not silly. Everything overlaps into one big picture. I made my main icon the Takatimu mountains. I drew the Waihopai River flowing through them into Oreti Beach. Next to the beach I had a road and next to the road I had some sheep and next to the sheep I drew the Water Tower and behind the water tower I drew some bushes and a forest with a deer in them. It was so fun! I hope we get around to doing it again sometime. 

Claude Monet

Today is our first day back at Enrich! It's Term 3 already! I've had a really good day because I started off with some art. Lots of people wanted to do science a few wanted to do maths an quite a lot did art. For art we were working on impressionism paintings by Claude Monet. He's a very clever man who invented this type of painting. Back then paintings were very fine and detailed. Claude Monet painted freely and changed all that. A critic thought of it as more of an impression of something so that's how the name impressionism came to be. Many people worked with Claude Monet but soon stopped this and went back to the old style. Claude Monet worked further with this and became a very famous man. His most famous painting was of the water lillies in his garden. That is what we were painting. We looked at mixing colours and using different textures. One of the interesting things I found out is when painting an impressionism is that you only use a brush with a square tip. That makes it easier to make it look slightly messier and you can hold the brush different ways to get different looks and textures. This is a clip on how to paint like Claude Monet. Feel free to take a look. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ftb1mkN30g