My past 6 weeks in art.

 Learning Objective: In art over the last 6 weeks we have been learning about different painting techniques. These techniques that we have worked on are working with different textures (ex. scrunched up paper towels, bits of cardboard, torn off bits of paper and big paint brushes), We have been mixing different oils (ex. cooking oil, Retarder) and also using techniques like blending and layering. 

In my art work I tried to step out of my comfort zone of keeping everything very neat and tidy. So over the past 6 weeks I have just been putting my paint brush on the paper and go for it.

This was slightly challenging for me because it was way out of my comfort zone with just going for it, as a result of just going crazy I don't love all my art work but I still see it as development in my art.

Here are the pictures of the art techniques that our teacher asked us to use for our own art.

If anybody has any feedback or tips please leave a comment and let me know:)

Children of blood and bone: chapter 22.

  I pause for a moment, aghast at the number of them filling the narrow path. Before today, I caught only glimpses of the laborers brought in to staff the palace—always pleasant, clean, groomed to Mother’s satisfaction. Like Binta, I thought they lived simple lives, safe within the palace walls. I never considered where they came from, where else they might have ended up,

“Skies…” It’s almost too hard to bear the sight. Mostly diviners, the laborers outnumber the villagers by hordes, dressed in nothing but tattered rags. Their dark skin blisters under the scorching sun, marred by the dirt and sand seemingly burned into their beings. Each is hardly more than a walking skeleton. 

A real life situation this could be compared to is people who live in lower areas, you see what they look like at school or work but you never consider where they could from or what life is like in there homes.

What I wonder is if later on in the book this changes, if the laborers get to live in better conditions and get better clothes.

Children of blood and bone: chapter 3.

Chapter 3 – Amari
“I am afraid not, Your Highness. I saw it with my own eyes. Their magic was weak, but it was there.”
Skies…
What does this mean for us? What shall happen to the monarchy? Are the maji already planning an attack? Will we have any chance of fighting back?
Memories of Father before the Raid play in my head, a paranoid man with grinding teeth and forever greying hair. The man who forced Inan and me into the palace cellar, placing swords in our hands though we were far too young and weak to lift them.
The maji will come for you, he warned. The same words every time he forced us to spar. When they do, you must be prepared.
A message I take from this scene is: Her father has always been afraid of the maji and what they could do, so he has made is own children train to 'be ready' because he is afraid of what they will do, afraid of their power.
I wonder what is going to happen next, I wonder who will win.

Children of blood and bone: chapter 2.

Chapter 2 – Zélie
“It’s a diviner tax.” I grip the draped fabric of my pants, still haunted by the guard’s touch. “They came for Mama Agba, too. Probably hitting every home in Ilorin.”
  Tzain presses his fists to his forehead as if he could smash through his own skull. He wants to believe that playing by the monarchy’s rules will keep us safe, but nothing can protect us when those rules are rooted in hate. 

This can be compared to today world with all of the racism, and the unfair treatment of people of colour and how they are under pained and treated extremely different just like how the diviners are treated by everyone else.

Street art.

This week in art we looked at street art and symbols. We research what symbols are and why they are important in our environment.

Business studies: team building.

My team: Me, Jack, Emily.
we were given one piece of paper, 1.5 meters of tape and scissors and were asked to build the tallest tower we could in 10 minutes.
we did not win, we came last but we tried.

How electricity works in my phone.

"a cell phone is essentially a two-way radio, consisting of a radio transmitter and a radio receiver. When you chat with your friend on your cell phone, your phone converts your voice into an electrical signal, which is then transmitted via radio waves to the nearest cell tower."
It uses electricity from the wall outlet, the battery, the WiFi, the speaker.