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Diary Post Friday 17th June 2016

In the past couple of weeks Rm 20 have been doing some amazing things. This diary post will tell you what we have been up to.  One thing we have been doing is our agamographs, here I will show you a photo of one.

this is a agamograph

We also have been doing some self directed learning (SDL) SDL is when your teacher sends your tasks for the week to your google drive and you complete as many as you can on your computer and if you don't understand she will make a work shop somewhere in the week, where she can help you with your learning. Another thing we have been doing is terrific Tuesdays where we go out for 45 minutes on a Tuesday and do lots of different actives like science and Japanese and at the end we have a assembly and show what we have learnt.  It was really fun because I had a chance to practice Kapahaka for the regional competitions.

grid value portrait

Grid Value Portrait 

wal about value in art. - how light or dark something is. the first thing we had to do was take a line for a walk, where we drew light and dark patterns with pencil on a piece of paper. after that  we had to enlarge a picture on a grid paper. then we had take a picture of our selves and print it out and make a grid on the photo. After that we got a plain piece of paper with a grid on it.  We made a window with paper and used blue tack to stick it down on 1 of the squares of the grid on the photo. after that we took our plain piece of paper and started patterning  our face on it. For the lighter spaces we made a pattern far apart and for the darker spaces we made patterns close together. The person who inspired us to do this art was called Chuck Close. Chuck Close was born 1940 5 July. he was dyslexic and did poorly at school. his dad died when he was 11 and his mother developed breast cancer but still kept making art.  lots of his art was are portraits of faces