Hello.
I am Catherine and this year in grade 8 I have Mrs Vincent as my teacher.
So far this year I have created a really cool title page which looks like two splotches of paint turning into my name and the word art. Also we had aunty Sally help us for two weeks. She is a aboriginal painter and was part of the stolen generation. She made a few paintings while sheh was with us. There were a few that I loved. One was a medow full of wild floweres and the lother was a tree on the side of a river at the bottom of a gorge. I loved the wild flower dot painting so much I wish I could have taken it home with me.
Aunty Sally also showed us how to creeate a more realistic yet blured painting of ourselve. On of the things she did was hold the photograph upside down so she was using righ brain which is the more creative side and it's less technical. Also she did not draw the girl first (positive space) she drew the negative space before adding details to the drawing of the girl. From this everyone in the class is now painting themself. Aunty ASally told me mine would be a little bit hard to draw and create but i'm giving it a go. So far I have drawn most of what I think is the negative in a box I drew on the black painted craft paper. I think it looks pretty good for the first time doing this kind of work.
Catherine
Friday Art period 4, 25/2/10
