James: March 2014

Tech:

My Basic Drawing

Today, we started out technology sessions and I was put into the Art group (Yay!)
Starting off, we arrived and were given our sheets. Our task was to draw what we saw in front of us.
As you can tell by the picture above, I never thought it was good enough so I kept restarting.
Anyways, I managed to get it finished, during which, everyone else was about to start their print making.
It got to the end of the session and I was amazed at what I actually made from ink, a piece of polystyrene and a drawing.

Wednesday 5th March - Wood Carving

Today, the goal was to make a wood carving and print it onto paper. The carving had to have something to do with the battle of Gate Pa. Mine was a front-on view of the Mission house at The Elms, which turned out to be pretty difficult to carve. We all knew that this wouldn't be finished today, so looks like we will do it tomorrow!

Thursday 6th March - Cont.

Carrying on from yesterday, we continued with our wood carving prints. This was very nerve racking as I didn't know how this would turn out! Other that that, I was ready. The carving took a while (Or should I say "I took a while" as usual), longer than I thought. I finished the carving and made my first print for the day. Finally!! So that was the last of that for the day!

Friday 7th March

So it's the last day of technology and we are back to printing. Everything is going well until I manage to load too much ink onto my print and that got a bit messy, but oh well! I finished my piece (which I wasn't too proud of) and carried on to my creative piece (which also wasn't that great). Overall, tech was awesome and I had a great time. By the way, I scored a 4P (Level 4 Proficient) which made me happy!