Diwali

A few weeks ago was Diwali. Diwali is an indian celebration with, dancing, singing, and yummy food. For Diwali, sometimes neighbours would give you cooked food. Diwali is can be celebrated anywere, but mainly in india. Women also use powered rice with food colouring to make a Diwali patterens  outside there door, or some were else. Did you know that Diwali is the Indian vestival of light? For this task we had to create a rangoli - the thing with powered rice - but we had the choice to do it on paper, with chalk on the concrete, or digitaly. I chose to do it on paper. For the rangoli we had to watch a video and copy what it was doing. We were able to do any shape we wanted. Heres a link to see a Diwali presintation, and heres another link to see a book on epic all about diwali. Heres a video link that takes you to youtube to watch a video about Diwali. I enjoyed drawing and colouring in my rongali. I found it difficult to choose which shape I was going to use. I hope yoy like my rongali and please leave a comment if you do.

Portrait art

 For the past few weeks we have been making portrait art. For this task we had to get a picture of ourselfs taken and then put it behind a laminat sheet, then outline the picture witha sharp pointed vivid or sharpie, sharpie is best. After that, take the picture out from under neath the laminating sheet and flip it over, and start mixing the paint colours to match your face. Then when you've done start painting you're face, neck and ears. Then make the colours of you're shirt, and paint that. Then make the colour of your hair, paint your hair, then make the colour of your eyes, then your lips, and finally,once ypur dry, put a sheet of coloured paper behind you and your done. I enjoyed painting my self and chosing the colour of my background. I found it difficult to mix the colours and make my face, and eyes. In the end the skin that I created eneded up looking a bit sun burnt. If you want make portrait art, be warned, some bit's are harder than others, espeically the skin. I ended up with the inside of my mouth blue, and part of my eyebrow blue as well, because the back ground that I had choose was blue, and buy the time I was done there had been bits that I had for gotten about. We were learning how to blend paint to match our skin, or our hair.