Art- Talent Development

The last couple of weeks in art we have been looking at making multi-media sculptures. Our art multi-media sculptures are made from a wire skeleton then coated in newspaper, paper tape, paper mache, tinfoil and clay this is then covered in material which is sewed up to give it the appearance of skin. I am making a frilled necked lizard and to make the frill you need to put down some tissue paper and lay down a metal frame of what you are doing (a frill) on the tissue paper then coat the frame and tissue paper in glue and put another layer of tissue paper on top and blow dry it all until it turns hard. Below is a photo of my frill-necked lizard so far. I will keep you updated with my progress on my multi-media art. I have also made a clay sculpture of a gecko foot. Below there is a image of my clay art.

Art talent development

Brooke I was impresed by how much you remembered about working with clay from last year and the amount of detail that you put into your sculpture. It will be interesting to see how it looks when it is glazed and fired as it is quite an original piece of art - well done!
Darryn

Teacher comment

Great to have you choose art talent development Brooke, you certainly launched yourself into it today. I will be very interested to see what art works you create based on the theme we have chosen and how the various mediums suit what you are trying to create.
Darryn

My First Week Back

Kia Ora,

Today it is my first week back at Enrich and it is quite full on. I have been busy working on my talent devolopment which is on art. The art we are doing is going to be about reptiles and I have decided to model gecko feet. My first material I will use to make the model will be clay and I may possibly do some paper mache. We start our project next week and we will continue to build our knowledge on our art throughout the term. Our finished product will be displayed at the Southland City Gallery in Invercargill. Below is a picture of the many types of gecko feet I will be looking at building. I will post next week and tell you how I go on my sculpting.

Teacher comment

Brooke you have a consistently positive attitude towards the challenges you are faced with during your time at Enrich. You have formed some great relationships with both returning and new students. The project you have worked on during the past term will make a real difference for the clothing recipients in Japan. There was a lot of learning involved in pulling a project like that together, you have done a great job!

Alana

Update on Passion Project

It is the second last day of our passion projects today and our passion project is going to plan even though it is a little bit behind on time. Madison is going to pick up all the baby clothes from her school office this afternoon. We think that there is more then a hundred different items of clothing in her school office which is very exciting. The one thing that is not going to plan is the donations of money we need for postage. My idea was to sell some of the clothes to a second hand clothing shop for money. We could use this money to ship the stuff to Japan but unfortunately Madison does not agree. Her idea was to get donations from my school to raise money for shipping our packs to Japan. Our other cheaper option was to send them to Christchurch along with some other peoples clothing donations.

I will update you next week on our decision to send to Japan or Christchurch.

Please can you comment on this post and let me know what you think.

Love

Brooke:)

Chemistry

Over the last couple of weeks I have attended two chemistry workshops. During the first workshop we made a thick sticky substance called casein. It smelt disgusting and it looked all lumpy and gross as well. See down below for the recipe for casein. Casein is an edible thickener but it tastes horrible! You can use casein to make plastic objects such as buttons. Some people made a long flat oval mold of casein on the lid of a yoghurt container. My groupmade a ball of casein. Our hypothesis was that the ball would be rubbery plastic so it would bounce. When we had shaped the ball we wrapped it in gladwrap and left it for a week. Next week we had a look at it. It was still soft and spongy, so we took it out of the gladwrap and left it for a week. Thenext week we found it was too hard. I was given the ball so I tore off the hard layer and found asoft layer underneath. I tried bouncing it but it didn't work.

The second week we tested household products that you would find in the kitchen to see if they were a base, a neutral or an acid. We each had a small cup of purple cabbage water. When we had chosen a product each we put some into our cabbage water. If it was a base the water would turn blue. If it was a neutral the water woud stay the same and if it was an acid the water would turn pink. I had a lemon. It was very acidy and the water turned a pink colour instantly. Quite a few products didn't make the water turn any colour like the coffee it made the water turn brown. After everyone had tested their product we were given a piece of litmus paper. Thepaper also turned red if acidic, blue if it was a base and green if it was a neutral. My lemon wasthree colours away from being one of the most acidic things in the world. This was the highest rank in colour that all the products got up to. Three other products were as acidic as a lemon- lime was amongst them.

Here is a picture of the purple cabbage water, acidic purple cabbage water, netural purple cabbage water, and base purple cabbage water, the litmus beginning to turn red in the presence of a lemon and the many colours that litmus paper can turn.