matariki art with rei hendry

Painting with Rei Hendry

Today we were very lucky, we had the amazing Rei Hendry in our school.

MATARIKI ART

Here is a link that you can follow to hear a retelling of the Seven Stars of Matariki.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKL6V69RLxo&safe=active

Once we were organised and Rei had talked to us about techinque.

 we were ready to start.

First we folded our paper into 3 parts

Next we painted a block letter M in the middle coloumn.

Then we tracked a night star across the sky in the top column.

After that we had to draw 2 or 3 lines in the third column to represent land and sea.

We then used blue paint for the sky and the sea, that balances out the picture by having blue at the top and the bottom. Then we had to paint the hills green (the pictures are really beginning to take shape now)

After that we had to blend red and yellow to make a sunrise pattern in the middle column.

Lastly we will have to paint 7 stars to represent the 7 stars of Matariki.

Quotes from some of the kids:

I enjoyed learning new techniques – Declan

I liked how we learnt how to hold our brushes properly – Ruby

We loved having a real artist in the classroom not just a teacher – Logan

It was good being taught to paint properly –Kaleb

I love painting, we should do more of it – Isabella

I loved learning from a real artist and learning the proper words for our equipment like palette – Ninabelle

I found it challenging to control my paintbrush but I stuck at it and now I like my piece of art – Thornley

We got to do painting instead of Scribe Time - Sasha