This week I was very productive! First I edited my poem and decided to change the title to “once upon a time.” Then I gathered up my painting supplies and sketched out what I wanted to paint. I just finished painting today and I’m very satisfied with the result! Now I’m practicing presenting my poem. Can’t wait to show my project to the class!!!!
As I planned, I bought all my supplies this week and finished writing my poem. I have changed my idea about the birds for the painting and decided to just paint some kind of art to accompany my poem. My poem talks about how the world would be like if our society vanished from the world one day, so I’m guessing my painting would look something like this:
I will be working on my painting this week.
I’ve changed my mind and instead of doing a write-up, I’ve decided to write a poem to go with my painting! I’ve been working on writing my poem this week. The title is “We wonder why.” I’m finishing up the last few touches and next week I’ll be working on my painting.
That is briefly what my painting is going to look like, but of course I’m going to add a lot more colour and birds. I’ve been thinking if some ideas to incorporate human society into my painting. For example, I may have a bird locked in a cage to represent the lack of freedom. I’m going to come up with more ideas next week, and hopefully do a rough sketch of what my painting will look like.
I’ve always loved art, so that’s what I decided to do for my project: a painting and a write-up. All artists have different styles and different ways of painting. After doing some research on some of the famous works of art, I’ve decided to combine the top ten styles of painting into one piece of art for my project. The styles I will be using are: Abstract, Surrealism, Conceptual, Pop art, Photorealism, Hyperrealism, Minimalism, Futurism, Impressionism, and Fauvism. I hope to take all the amazing painting techniques that other artists have created and recreate it into one big picture!
Last week of giraffe project! We got half of our editing done and got all our interviews filmed and ready to go! We’re planning on meeting up this weekend to finish the rest of the editing. We’ve got plenty of footage with interviews with the elders, and us helping them with electronics. On wednesday we filmed our last footage at the library, and yesterday I went to the library and filmed a short time lapse there for the start of our video. Can’t wait to see everyone’s final video!
This wednesday we met up at the library and got together with the seniors. We interviewed them with these questions:
What is your full name?
When and where were you born?
How did your family come to Canada?
Did you know anyone from Canada before you came?
How has technology changed over the years?
What is you earliest childhood memory?
When you were little, how did you entertain yourself?
What was school life like back then?
Did you go to school in Canada?
How i school in Canada different from School in other countries?
What trends were there when you were younger? (clothes, hairstyles, music, etc..)
Who were your childhood heroes?
Are you religious?
What events had an impact on you growing up? Did it effect your family?
Were you affected by a war?
What is your profession? Why did you pick it?
Are there any accomplishments that you are proud of?
What is something you want people to remember about you?
What is your first memory of Canada?
What were you like as a child?
What are some differences Canada has from your home country?
What is your favorite book and why? Who influenced your life most?
Which pieces of new technology have you found most helpful, and which ones are most annoying?
Do you have any regrets coming to Canada?
What language did you speak prior to coming to Canada?
Do you still speak this language?
Was it hard to learn English?
What was your neighborhood like?
Do you have any interesting stories?
Did you experience a culture shock on upon arriving in Canada?
Are values different in Canada than in your home country?
What are your experiences as an immigrant?
Do you still feel connected to your original culture?
How would you describe Canada to people in your home country?
What are your expectations for coming into Canada and where they met?
How did your ethnicity affect your life in Canada?
Then we helped them with their electronics, which we got on tape so we can include it in our video. We will do the same thing with them next wednesday and hopefully get our video done by next week!
We had a TAG meeting at the library this Wednesday from 3:00-4. Our librarian leader, Lindsey, talked about many things happening next month. On Feb 13th Saturday, we will be choosing books to buy for the library at chapters, and I will film a bit of that to include in our video. Also, for the next three weeks, we will be leaving class early from 1-3 on Wednesdays to go to killarney center to interview seniors for our project. Lindsey and some staffs will provide us some filming equipment that we can use to film our conversations with the elders. It’s time to start working!
I’ve finally finished my art this class! I’m done drawing my cats from oil pastel and even finished signing my name on the bottom right corner. I’m almost finished the good and last copy of my rightup, which I will hand in tomorrow at itime because i forgot to edit it at home. My art is finished and ready to present!
So as you can see, by this class I’ve aleady almost finished the cat skeleton and half of the cat on the right. The background is nice and blended from dark blue to light blue. I also finished painting the branch that the two cats are sitting on, and its colour is from black to brown, so it matches the dark to light effect I’ve been trying to show in my art. The only thing left to do is to finsh the cat on the right, which i’ll do next class.
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