Goodbye and Farewell

Hello and goodbye. This is my last ever day of Enrich and I'm sad, not just sad, really sad.  I have finally finished my stone carving YAY! From a block of stone in to a goats head. I also finished my keynote on Chris Brown. I have loved coming to Enrich. It's is full with surprises  and awesome things to do like painting, paper mache, clay, stone carvings etc. Although I can't wait to go to High school next year. I will miss Enrich. Goodbye and farewell Enrich!

Design your own

This one is entirely made out of sand!

Hello, Today I made something called a mandala. A mandala is a pattern that keeps growing out and out from the middle, which is called the seed. You can do absolutely anything it's amazing and fun. Sometimes frustrating though if you make a mistake. Pros that do it - do it with naturally coloured sand it's fascinating but it looks hard. Monks make their mandalas out of sand then meditate after they meditate they sweep it up and pour the sand in to the sea. Monks believed in their religion and pouring sand into the sea was a blessing from them.
It's very important not to over think it and to let your brain just go with the flow. They are really fun to make and draw. Design your own mandalas!
 P.S don't use sand on your first go. Warning: may frustrate you or make you angry!

Haunted Forever.

Hello. Today at Enrich we learnt about Digital Citizenship. This means that someone could have lots and lots of information about you and could be selling your information to people that want it. Never post information to people that you wouldn't tell face to face, because they could use it and do anything with it. When you post something you have absolutely no control over it at all and it could come back and haunt you forever.

Abstract expressionist

Hello, today at Enrich I did art with Katie. The art was called Abstract impressionist that originated from world war 2. Abstract impressionist is when you saturate your brush and wave it round above a canvas it will drip drop and splat! The hard thing about it is knowing when to stop or change colour and try to never let the paintbrush touch the canvas. If you get it wet enough it will create a lines when you wave it round the canvas instead of blobs. I really enjoyed it and I hope you do to. http://www.jacksonpollock.org

Signed by Jive Records

Hello and welcome back to my blog. Today we carried on with Affective Domain about our gifted individual. As you know I was doing Zinzan Brooke but since then I have changed to Chris Brown the singer, songwriter, dancer and actor. I changed to him because I know him a lot more then Zinzan Brooke and he is one of my favourite singers. He was signed by Jive records when he was only 15. In 2008 the billboard named him "Artist of the Year" and in 2011 he won a grammy award for the best R&B album for "F.A.M.E" (the song). I really like Chris Brown because he has lots of cool songs and he is world famous!

Zinzan Brooke

Hello, today at Enrich I did affective study. We had to chose someone who is gifted or that suits Renzulli's model of giftedness (task commitment, above average ability and creativity). I'm doing Zinzan Brooke who was an All Black in 1987 and he was in the very first world cup that New Zealand won. He played as a number 8. But the only thing I'm worried about is if he is actually creative. We have to present our person on a poster, prezi etc. We got a list of things we had to include in our presentation including pictures of mentors/coaches, pictures and facts about our person and lots more. I really enjoy doing this but I'm under pressure with time. Wish me luck!

Impressionism

Hello, today at Enrich I went to the second art workshop with Katie. We looked at Claud Monet's impression art - it is really cool, I like how it's your impression and you can do what ever you want with it as long as you see the picture. We got to paint lily pads in the water which was really cool because we just mixed random colours together and made really cool colours in our water. Claud Monet made simple easy flowers but really effective. The way he painted was called "tache" which is french for touch. In Claud Monet's paintings he brushed landscape for the bits he wanted to stand out,  and vertical for the backgrounds. In paintings today,  people make sure it is perfect but it doesn't have to be perfect. I really like Claud Monets paintings.