Art Friday

There is nothing like an art day!

Today we learnt one of the stories of Matariki. It was all in Te Reo with English subtitles (that's words underneath explaining the story).

Here is the link to this cool story 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-OluHpI6I&t=28s

After watching the video, Miss Sills explained that we would be drawing and then painting parts of the Matariki story. Each of our table groups would get a different part of the story to illustrate.

Miss Sills explained the important art rule - the rule of thirds. This is where you pretend to divide your piece of paper into 9 imaginary equal rectangles or squares. Your picture should cover at least 6 of those squares. Mrs Dobbie learnt something today too!

After some more instructions we were off and practicing in our art books. When we had finished we had to colour our pictures in, to see what colours we wanted to use when we finally painted our picture.

After that we transferred our drawing onto our good paper and then the painting began.

The afternoon went by so fast because we were having so much fun. We got paint all over our table, on our hands and of course on our paper. Some of us blended our colours together to make new colours. The rest of us just used what colours there were and made them really bright.

Here are the photos of our art day!

We hope we can paint again soon. Mrs Dobbie says she'll think about it!