Sheppard Art Trip

On week 8 we went on our hole house art trip to the Hastings race track art exhibition and the Napier museum. First we went to the Hastings race track and had a look at their art exhibition.

My favourite piece was 2 Speed by
Judy Woodam. It was a racehorse and jockey zooming down the track and where coming in first place by the looks. I liked the texture that she used with flicks of paint to give it that speed look about it. If the artist was there I would have asked her why she painted that piece of art and what was her inspiration. When we came back from the art exhibition we had to have a favourite piece of art that we wanted to replicate. This is my art so far. I couldn't get a picture of it fully done because it was in our art exhibition. I used a horse running freely in the wild rather than a horse on the race track with a jockey on his back.

I also loved picture number 95, A Island Bare, by Sonia Crystal. I loved the look that this piece of art showed and the texture. The artist used squares for the sky as a different kind of look and appeal. In this art piece the island is in the distance on the horizon and the water is bobbing away with the sun shinning down on the water. The artist also used different shades of blue for the water to show where the sun is shinning. Its a very calm and collective picture and it makes you feel happy if you were looking at it.

We also went and had a look at the Napier Museum and there art.

This piece of art was created by Ian Scott and is called, 59 Lattice acrylic on canvas. I loved this art work because it is abstract yet using simple tones, colours and shapes in and affective way, it gave a smart look about it. What I wasn't expecting was the bold and bright colors because I thought that it would have been bland and boring.

There were also other interesting pieces of art and sculptures and just lots of interesting things to see at the museum. I realy enjoyed the hole day out on the art trip it gave me a lot of inspiration for any art I do in the future.

Character Descriptions

We have started to do some character descriptions this term on character traits. We had to come up with there looks, sound and there actions. For example, steam was coming out of her ears. We had to write a character trait story on anger and happy. Heres my story.

Angry

Jenna's face was as red as tomato.Her eyebrows pointing like a boomerang. Her face was so red that the fire brigade nearly came. She was so angry that she was growling long and low like a jaguar. Thrashing the counter with her fist she screamed so loud that the aliens on Mars could hear her. All because they didn't have her favourite pink lips tip.

 We also had to make a happy one to.

Happy

Jumping up and down skipping along the path Kim swished her hair from one side to the other. Her eyes sparkling like a thousand diamonds nearly blinding all the people but her. She was laughing like a hyena, or other people may have thought she was cackling like a witch. But to her today was the best day ever.

Catapults

For maths we have been learning about measurement. For our measurement maths unit we made catapults out of wood, nails, spoons and rubber bands. Mr B cut up the wood and then we chose a piece for our catapults. We measured the perimeter of the wood and measured how far we wanted our nails to be in from the side. A couple of days later we made our catapults and then on Friday and Monday we tested our catapults.
Perimeter=56cm
Width=15cm
Length=25.5cm
This is the graph that I made to show how far the things flew.

On the fourth go the blue bead flew that farthest. It went 10 meters and 90 centimeters The farthest that the yellow bead flew was 7 meter. The stones farthest was 60 centimeters and the twigs farthest was 1 meter. We made these catapults to burn down Hillary but in the end we didn't do that.

Character Trait

Through this term we have been mainly focusing on character trait descriptions for writing. We first had to make a hamburger plan sheet and then put our ideas down on it. The character that I wanted to describe was a wolf in the night time.

The Wolf

The night fog was rolling in out from the east as it cast a spell on the night making the forest disappear and then I laid my eyes on him. Walking through the fog like a mysterious creature he came from in the dark forest to meet me, but was weary on how close he got. His soft blue eyes the size of marbles where looking me up and down. They attracted me to him to go closer and pat him but as soon as I moved he bared his sharp white teeth at me. He was only defending himself because he thought I was a threat, but when he realized I wasn’t one he sat down on the cold snow. The grey-white coat of fur looked so soft like the snow he was sitting on, or like cotton candy freshly spun. His ears perked forward in the direction of a howl and he howled back under the moon. I thought it must have been his mate and I think it was. He suddenly jumped up on all four paws and made new footprints in the snow. The footprints he made in the snow where a little bit smaller than my hand. He was a stocky build, one that would be able to chase his prey easily. He turned at me and bowed as if he was saying “thank you for not hurting me.” Then he ran into the illuminated night sky and rustled the bushes with his tail. He was the Great Grey Wolf.