Digital Art

 Last Year I came across a digital Siapo and with Tongan Language Week I thought a focus on Art would be a neat way to celebrate the Week. here is my Class on Air Video showing how this can be done.

Check out the student work in the slides! I am very proud of what my students achieved it is also visible on the wall outside our class for all to see.

Sketching Koru Patterns to Pastel Koru Patterns

These 2 episodes for Class OnAir are a  series. Not something I usually do, but when I figured out both steps are vital for the piece of Art I wanted to share onAir. 

Even Year 7 and  8 students need time to practise and design. So that is the first episode encouraging students to practise. We don't get better at riding a bike by giving up. The same goes for all aspects of life, including art. So to get our best koru patterns, everyone had to practise.

The second episode is taking our design to the finished product. Some spectacular pieces made a great display for our community evening. In this episode, the students used a 'cool' colour starting with the dark shade, e.g. dark green, to outline their design (which is in a 2D shape that makes the border) and then the light shade to colour inside. Students were encouraged to overlap, have a piece missing from the border and if possible have relief or black koru (that worked its way into the colour pattern).