Waikowhai Primary school's Art festival

  
               Waikowhai Art festival


This week on Tuesday and Wednesday we had the art festival, in  our class were doing bird painting, it  
had to be a endangered bird native (only live in New Zealand) to New Zealand.

The bird I done for the painting is a morepork/Ruru  because it was the fist bird I thought of. Also  because it was my house group name. I think what I should do with my painting is make the head smaller and less wide next time. I used different type of browns because the ruru has lot's of brown feathers.I also done some yellow on it's eyes since the ruru is nocturnal (awake at night) it's eyes will be big so it can see in the dark,night sky. 

My background for my painting was the ruru sitting on a tree branch at night.I done some bushes with a darker green. The night sky was a dark kind of blue with no stars in the sky and with  tree leaves. The tree leaves were light green and the background was dark so it stand out quite nicely. I thought it was alright,I think I should have made my bird more thin  and have sharper edges. One thing I really liked is the trunk because it blends with the black and brown. 

We also done a house. We had to collect soft plastic from each class over 8 weeks. We are doing this because people litter and pollute the world. Are we going to allow littering to our own house and pollute the world? We made a slide show/presentation that is about what are plastic and are not  plastic. It also talks about the message and what we are doing to the house. We made a sign to show our families about the house and what's it for,we done it  on a google drawing. It could be about animals being harmed and about what  we are doing  to the house.We could use anything, our teacher showed the class scribble. Then the teachers laminated our sign.

            This is photo of the house (this was when we didn't put the soft plastic)

We also done weaving. We used different kind of coloured yarn and got to choose any colour. All of Te Waka ako done it, and it was so much fun. How we do it  is we go over and under until the yarn is finished. Since we didn't finish it, the weaving was moved to the art show so other people can help finish too.
                          This is a photo of the weaving we have done