Gordon Walters art

The dream team was teaching us ( Koka Rachel and Koka Jo,as they like to call themselves) on Wednesday. Even though we had other priorities to complete, The dream team organised some digital art based on the art that New Zealand artist Gordon Walters makes. I thought that it was going to be very difficult as this was what his art look liked:

Really cool! But this wasn't that hard to do, you just copy rectangles and circles and place them. Here is my art:

I loved doing this and I hope we do something like this again soon!
 

3D Hand Art

 This week was when the Year 6's went on camp so we had super fun priorities. One of our priorities was 3D hand art. We had to trace our hand and then draw lines that go straight and then curved on the hand.

I have finished my lines and now I am on to colouring but I haven't finished. It looks so cool! Here is a picture:  

I loved doing this and I hope we do more art again soon!

Automata

On Wednesday me, Alice and Josie made an automata. If you are thinking what are you talking about? An automata is moving toy that has a cam, a frame, a cam follower and a handle. 

Last week was when we did the planning but I wasn't here last week so I joined Alice and Josie's group. Our initial plan was to do a moving dolphin but instead we did Earth. This wasn't as difficult as we thought it would be. 

First we made the frame. To make the frame you need a box with no sides, some cardboard and tape. First we taped the cardboard to the edges and then made the cam and glued it to the skewer. After assembling the automata we started decorating.

We printed out the earth and stuck it to the top skewer. Then we cut off the edges of blue paper and stuck it on. Then we painted the automata black like the night sky and let it dry. I really liked automata even though it was tricky, would you like to play with our toy?