Tānerore!

Today I attempted and completed another Summer Learning Journey task, this time learning about Tānerore, Kowhaiwhai, and other Maori patterns. 

Now, if you wondering who Tānerore is, I made a Google Drawing and wrote in my own words, my understanding of him. 

After learning about Tānerore, I started to create draw Kowhaiwhai. We had the option to either use a template provided or to draw our own on paper. I chose to sketch mine on paper. Afterwards we played around with a koru design rotating and reflecting the shapes to created we a repetitive pattern across the page.

Then I was onto the Step It Up activity, where we did a similar thing but making our own shapes and designs to make a banner. In my drawings I used Koru (new life, growth, strength and peace), and the Mangopare, (hammerhead shark) I also chose to colour my designs!

I really enjoyed drawing these patterns, however I found some of them a little hard to draw! I made some mistakes along the way however, I'm pretty proud of my efforts! 

Anyways, here are my drawings...

My kick start activity drawing...

And my Step It Up drawing...

Design #1           

What pattern is your favourite?

(I apologise if my instructions aren't very clear!)

I can't wait for the next SLJ task!

2 Week Drawing Challenge

One of my fellow class mates, Isabel. Recently created a 14 day challenge I thought it was a great idea and decided to make my own. However, I changed it up a little and instead of having random tasks like for example - Read a book about a famous person or learn what X axis and Y axis is. I did drawing related tasks. Here it is -

The photo didn't turn out very well so, if you can't read the tasks in the boxes here is what each one says -

Day One - Yourself
Day Two - Your favourite animal
Day Three - Your favourite food
Day Four - Your dream house 
Day Five - Your Best Friend
Day Six - The cover of your favourite book
Day Seven - Your favourite dessert
Day Eight - Something in your favourite colour for example - If your favourite colour was Blue then you could draw a Blue T-Shirt.
Day Nine - A character or scene from your favourite movie
Day Ten - Your favourite lolly for example you could draw a lollipop
Day Eleven - An outfit
Day Twelve - A Christmas present you wish to receive
Day Thirteen - A place you'd like to visit
Day Fourteen - ANYTHING AT ALL! 

Black & White, Day & Night

The Summer Learning Journey has challenged me to describe all of the details in this piece of artwork above. This drawing is by MC Escher. Here is what I describe it as . . . A drawing in the countryside with a small town and river. One side represents night time and the other represents day time. There is also birds that meet in the middle them fly different directions. The drawing is symmetrical and the artist has payed a lot of attention making it look like the same town and the same place just at different times of the day. How would you describe this drawing/artwork above???