Art: Lino prints

This term in art we have been working on designing our own personal logo and put it on a lino print. to start designing our logo we had to do some research on logo designs using positive and negative space ( see different post). then we had to come up with a bunch of different designs. after we had done that we redrew our designs on a piece of paper then we flipped it using the photocopier. Once he had done that we coloured in the back of it with a charcoal pencil and traced over the lines onto a lino block. once we had done that we traced the lines with permanent marker and cut out the bits we anted to be white. Then we inked it and pressed it onto a piece of paper. For my logo design we could choose something personal to us, so I choose my favourite animal, a phoenix ( I spelt it wrong on my lino block ). but I didn't know how to draw a phoenix so i just wrote it.

Here is the finished result

Designing Logos: Finding Ideas

This term in art class we have been looking at Logo design, This week we were looking at positive and negative space in Logos. We had to find some logos ( Between 6-10) with positive and negative space, once we did that we had to choose 2-3 of our favorites and we had to write about what type of logo they are and what we liked about them. Here are mine.

Final art display

This term in Hur 4 we have we have been slowly creating a final art display. On our art display we have our three art pieces, the three pieces were our weaving, our Tapa art and our collage. We also put our . The part of my art display that I am most proud of is my Tapa art Because it took the most effort and it was fun to make. Something that challenged me during this art/writing hurumanu was figuring out where to put my pieces of art and poetry on my black piece of paper. My favourite style of poetry is a style of poetry called limerick. I enjoyed creating my poems and artwork and I hope I can do a different types of poetry and art again soon.

Tapa cloth

For the past while we have been making Tapa cloths. A Tapa cloth is a piece of natural clothe made from bark it is soaked and beaten into a piece of flat material, then designs get drawn on it using a natural ink made from other plants and vegetable dyes. The way we made it was we drew out some basic designs that represented things in the story "The Creation Of Tuna". The creation of tuna is a story that explains the Maori legend of how tuna was made. We drew 6 designs that represented something in the story, mine were. The 4 pieces of tuna, The river, The heavens , the heat tuna experienced in heaven , tipua (supernatural), the basket that they weaved to capture tuna.

Calendar art

for calendar art  this year we have learn how to blend colours with paint or pastel. I loved painting and mixing colours in calendar art  but it was hard to get perfect lines and not get paint all over me .I wanted to show you mine so here it is .

My tree art

This week for art we have been colouring in pictures of trees with pastel to represent the 4 seasons summer,autumn,winter and spring I did a lot of blending with colours to try and make the perfect colour. here it is could you please say  in the comments if I could do something to try and make it better .