Henri Rousseau, Jungle Printing

 Kia Ora everyone,

We are now back at school. During art, we had to listen to a story book that talks about Henri Rousseau. Henri Rousseau is a French painter. While listening to the story book, we had to take notes, facts that is in the book/video. 

This is the notes I wrote that I currently have (not finish yet).

•  Henri Rousseau is a toll collector, 40 years old that wants to be an artist. 
• He loves nature (foliage).
• He has to teach himself since he cant afford an art lesson. 
• After hearing about the art exhibition, his canvas are displayed on the place the show is held. 
• He walked around to gather some ideas, and ends up in world's fair.
• While he was painting, a tiger crawled in. 
• Every year he attends the art exhibition, but art experts always makes fun of him. 
• He spends hours painting on cemetery, he paints and learns. 
• A gardener sneaks him into the hothouse, and he goes in.

Words I didn't understand: 

• frond
• tenderly 
• banquet 
• frolic 

This is one of Henri Rousseau's art works that I admire. This painting is very realistic and has lots of details in it. It is called "The Equatorial Jungle" that is created in 1909. 

That is all for today, thank you for reading my blog, goodbye:))

Reflection of Art

Kia ora, 

Today I will be talking about what we have been doing during art. We have done tons of things including stop motion, scenario, flip book and Manaakitanga. Last week, we were assigned to make a minion using clay. 

Flip books: The flip book I was doing was about a broken girl, then she ends up changing herself, she was a confident woman. For me, the hard part is trying to make it look the same in each page, although it was fun. It took me for about 1 week to be able to finish it. 

Scenario Choice: We were told to pick 1 scenarios, me and Rheanne were working together. The scenario was about: Alin life forms, one life form from Jupiter, one life form from Mars, find each other on an abandoned planet Zoig. They need to find safe water to drink, build shelter and find food, by learning to communicate. We tried drawing the characters and the setting where the story takes place. 

Stop Motion: I was making a minion but not the actual colour of a minion. I was given a grey clay so I had to make it work. I tried shaping the body and the face first, and then made sure it can stand, then I added the details (Eyes, dress, hands, etc) and so on. 

Manaakitanga: We had to do the manaakitanga and research about the meaning of it. There was supposed to be atleast 5 information about what it means. I also had to do it with Rheanne using the same google drawing. 

Thank you for reading my blog, have a great day, goodbye.