My Pastel Art

Walt: Blending and shading using oil pastel media. Last week in our class everyone had to do a pastel art. We watched a video that was put into our workspace on how to do something that is similar to mine (it’s way better though). After we watched it we had to do something similar with any coloured pastel. I got this container thing that held the glitter and traced the bottom of it with my pencil to make the moon. Then I got the light blue pastel and coloured in the bottom of it. I did the same with the dark blue but in the middle and then the same with the black but the top. Next we had to get a tissue and sort of blend the colours together (which didn’t really work on mine). On the video the guy drew a little silhouette person sitting on the end of something staring up into the sky. Most people did that or they drew trees. I then got a white pastel and black pastel and coloured in the moon a little bit. This art was sort of fun. If I got to do this again I would maybe try blend the colours in a bit more. Have you ever had to do pastel art and if so what was it?

Be Internet Awesome!

WALT: Tell the difference between fake and real emails and ie fishing.
Today for cybersmart we had to tell the difference between fake and real emails. We had to make sure the URL matched the title, if there was any pop-ups, if the URL starts with https:// and had a green lock before it and what was in the fine print. Whaea Donna told us we could work in partners so Kyra and I did (I did most of the work). This activity was actually pretty fun and easy. Now we know what to look for to make sure what we are reading is real and not fake. In one of the photos we were looking at to tell if it was fake or real we could tell it was fake because it said Internaut News. There were slides that had the email or website and there was slides that we had to tell why we thought it was real or fake. One thing Kyra and I could of done was maybe made our sentences a bit longer because they were short. Have you ever come across a scam?

M.C Escher Tessellation Art

WALT: Create a tessellation in the style of M.C Escher.

This is my tessellation art in the style of M.C Escher. It took me awhile to finish this art because I added small details to colour in. You can't really see it that well in the photo but let me just say it isn't that good. How I made it: 

1. I had to watch this video -->  How to make a tessellation. 

2.I got a small piece of this purple/pink card and cut out two bits (which in my photo looks like the head of that fish thingy and the wave looking thing).

3: I put the little pieces I cut out above the one that it looks like and taped it.

4: I got a big piece of paper and basically used my card as a stencil.

5: Once I finished going around the paper I added details and coloured it in.

Something I could have done was not scribbled because my art looks very messy. Have you ever heard of M.C Escher?

My Abstract Charcoal Drawing

         WALT: Find an artists style or an image you like and copy it.This term in Totara class we have been doing different types of art but this is one of them. This is my abstract charcoal drawing. This was before it got smudged by someone. The artists name was Melinda (there was no last name). Let's just say mine is nowhere near as good as Melinda's artwork. The left one is mine obviously and the right one is Melinda'sHow I made this art: The first thing I did was searched up abstract charcoal flower and picked one I liked which looks similar to mine. Secondly I got my pencil and started copying it onto my paper. Thirdly I got the charcoal and did the outlines. I also smudged some of the charcoal around the flower. Then I had to take a photo of it and then blog it.A thing I could have done was not rushed because that made my art look messy. Another thing I could have done was smudged the outside a bit better so it looks like the real one. Have you ever had to do a piece of art with charcoal?                       

Camera Shots/angles

  WALT: To take different camera shots and explain what the purpose of the shots are.

 This is mine and Kyra's slideshow on Camera Shots/Angels. Whaea Donna who is our cybersmart teacher came in today and was telling us about the slideshow before we took the photos. Once she finished we had to find a partner and go outside. We had to have 2 photos for the same thing. For example, we had to take 2 close up photos of each other. The shots and angles we had to do were close up, wide shot, mid shot, over the shoulder shot, worms eye view, birds eye view and panning. We couldn't do the panning one with our Chromebooks so Kyra just wrote what the purpose is. Our photos aren't the best but we still took them. One thing we could have done was taken the photo's better because the lighting wasn't good and we needed to use more emotions in our photos.  Have you ever had to take photos using those shots and angles?

Jim Dine Charcoal Tool Art

                                             Walt: Draw a tool in the style of Jim Dine.

This is my piece of art that is in the style of Jim Dine. Jim Dine is an artist that does lots of charcoal drawings. Mine is nowhere as good his art.
1: The first thing I had to do was get a piece of paper, a bit of charcoal and a tool or object. (I chose scissors)
2: Secondly I had to trace the scissors on the paper.
3: Thirdly I had to get my piece of charcoal and go over my scissors drawing with it.
4: After that I had to sort of scribble around the outside of the scissors with the charcoal.
5: Lastly I smudged it around.

One thing I could have done was made the outside of my scissors a bit darker. I also could have smudged it a bit better. The challenging part about this piece of art was that the scissors kept moving and it took me a while to do the outlines. Next time I do something like this I will make the outside darker.

Planning a screencastify

WALT: Plan a screencastify on how to attribute an image, how to get an image of explore and the difference between the two.
Next time I make a screencastify I think I should make sure no one else is talking around me because then it makes it harder for people to hear me.

These are the steps on how to do everything:

How to attribute an image:

1: To attribute an image off google you need to search up something in the search
engine and press enter.

2: Once you have done that there should be a box at the top that says “tools”. 

3:You then click on that and there will be a drop down box that says “usage rights”

4: Press “labelled for reuse”. Click on that and the images that you can reuse will be there. 

5:  Once you have done all of that find the image you want and on the side there will be a box that says

“visit”. If you click on it, it will take you to the site that has the author name, source and license.

How to get an image off explore:

1: To get an image of explore you need first need to find the little icon on the bottom right hand corner.
It is a little box with diamond looking thing inside of it.

2: Next you click on the box and search up something. For example I have searched “Emerald Lakes,
New Zealand”. 

3: Images that you can use will then pop up.

4: If you hover over the image there will be a little plus sign at the box

5: Click on the plus sign and the image you want will be on your page.

The difference between the two:

The difference between the two is that to get one off google images you have to
attribute it but if your getting one off explore you just have to click the button and it will come
up on your page. Using explore is way easier.