Festival of the Arts Final week

This week was the final week for festival of the arts. We finished everything off: Our digital pop art, name tags, cartoon character pop art, food pop art and everything else. We then put it all on display on a wall in the classroom next door. This is the final result.

This week I found it hard to find a site to make my digital pop art with and I also found it hard to finish my painting, considering all of the paint brushes were thick and none of them were thin, but I did.

Science of the Arts

Aim: I want to find out how to mix colours made of light and how coloured light is made.

Research:

How is coloured light made?

Light itself is made up of wavelengths of light. These wavelengths are all a particular colour. The colour that we see is the result of which coloured wavelengths are reflected back to our eyes. When coloured lights are mixed together it is called additive mixing. The primary colours for additive mixing are red, blue and green. If all of these colours are shone onto a screen the colour will be white.

(nm stands for nanometre, or a billionth of a metre.)

What is white light?

White light contains all of the colours of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet). This is because it contains all wavelengths and it is described as poly-chromatic light. A specific colour can be defined by a range of tiny wavelengths in nano metres. Visible light is the small part within the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can detect.

Light from a source such as a laser, is described is monochromatic. This is because it only produces a single colour.

The colour of objects

Objects can often appear as different colours. This is because they absorb and reflect or transmit some colours. The wavelengths/colours we see are the colours that are reflected or transmitted. An example of this would be: A red shirt. The reason it looks red is because the dye molecules in the fabric have absorbed the wavelengths of light from the violet and blue end of the colour spectrum. Red light is the only light that is reflected from the shirt. If only blue light is shone on the shirt, the shirt will appear as  black, because the blue light would be absorbed and there would b no red light to be reflected.

White objects appear as white because it reflects all colours, where as black objects appear as black because they are absorb all colours, therefore no colour is reflected.

How does the human eye detect colour?

The retina (A light sensitive piece of tissue that lines the bag of your eyeball) of our eyes contains two types of photo receptors- rods and cones. The cones detect colour, and the rods only allow us to see black, white and grey. Our cone photo receptors only work when the light is bright enough and not when it is dim. This is why things look mostly grey to us during the night time.

Mixing Colours

As I said before, the primary colours of light are red, green and blue. when you mix these colours together in all sorts of different proportions, you get all the different colours of light that are visible to the human eye. This is actually how TV, computer and phone screens work. If you were to look at your TV at home through a magnifying glass, you would find that the only three colours used to make the picture are blue, red and green. They use different colour combinations with different proportions to trick our eyes into perceiving completely different colours. 

Autochrome Lumiere

The Auto chrome Lumiere is an early colour photography process. Created in 1903 by the Lumiere brothers in France and first marketed in France in 1907 and was the first principal colour photography process used before the discovery of subtractive colour film in the mid-1930's. Auto chrome was an additive "mosaic screen plate". The middle of this peculiar thing was coated on one side with a random mosaic of microscopic grains of potato starch, dyed red blue and green (an unusual but very effective piece of equipment). These acted as colour filters. The spaces between the grains were black and a black-and-white panchromatic emulsion is coated on top of the filter layer.

This is the light box that we used for our experiment:

Experiment:

For my experiment, I am going to use a light machine and filters to mix colours, and take photos of the results to see how accurate the additive mixing wheel is.

Equipment:
To do this yourself you will need:

• A light box (If you can not find one you could also use three lights and a mirror)
• Different coloured pieces of plastic to put in front of the lights
• A dark room and something white to shine the light on

What to do:

It is very easy to do this experiment. All you need to do is put your light box (or what ever you are using as an alternative) in a dark room, the front light faced towards a white wall or other white object. Then put different coloured pieces of plastic in front of the lights and move the mirrors until they all point towards the same place, then the colours will mix.

Green and Red= Yellow  Correct

(It is slightly hard to tell on camera, but the colour in the middle is yellow

Blue and Green= Cyan Correct

Blue and Red= Magenta Correct

Green, Red and Blue= White Correct

(again not very clear on camera, but the middle colour is a slightly tinted white)

Here is another filter which made stripes of different colours when mixed with other filters.

Explanation:

Our experiment was very successful. There was only one filter (the yellow one) that didn't work, because when you mixed it with others it still over powered the other colours. If I did it again, I would probably use a better background to shine the colours at. 

So why did it work? The colour that we see is the result of which coloured wavelengths are reflected back to our eyes. When they mix together, some coloured wavelengths are absorbed and others are reflected. This is how light mixes to make other colours.

What went wrong?

We did have to find a different room, as the first one we used was too bright. In the new room we also had to point the light box at the roof so it appeared 

 clearer and brighter.

Andy Warhol Festival of the Arts Week 3

This week for festival of the arts, I made pop art of two cartoon characters. My pop art had the two characters copied four times. Each copy had a completely different colour scheme, apart from their iconic yellow skin.

Here is my pop art:

I also did a bit more on my final draft of the Hell's pizza design:

I found it hard to do small details with paint on my final copy (which there were a lot of), and I found it hard to trace my cartoon character pop art four times (it was just really annoying because it wouldn't stay on the window and it kept falling off).

Character Portrait

This is a character portrait/description I wrote about my sister Taryn:

My beloved sister Taryn is not only a great aspiring-to-be make up artist, she is also an incredible sister, with a  strange, but great and witty sense of humour. She’s my big sister but she’s also my best friend.

She has kind, grey eyes with a slight blue tint, and long brown hair with tips that are only a shade lighter than the roots. Taryn is quite short for her age, being only a centimetre or two taller than me, but she makes up for it with her bright personality that would stand out in a crowd of spotlights. She always wears either jeans or a denim skirt with some sort of fancy shirt and jacket along with a pair of vans, converse, adidas, nike or some other expensive shoe brand. She has pale skin and her nose is pierced with a small and silver ring like nose piercing which when she first got, I jokingly said made her look like a bull. She wears lipstick of all different colours and shades. From bright blue to a natural brown coloured lipstick (which always annoys me because no matter what colour she puts on it suits her), along with a necklace or bracelet and some stainless steel earrings.

When my beautiful big sister isn’t working her supposedly part time job which she happens to be at on an almost daily basis (almost twice a day), you can find her hanging out with her friends from all around Christchurch. Lyttelton, New Brighton, Redcliffs you name it. What will she be doing? She’ll be going on scenic social media-worthy adventures with Jade, round beautiful crystal-like lakes and along beaches of golden sand, or going for a late night *cough cough* midnight *cough cough* round of Maccas with Jess. If not at one of these many places doing one of these many things, she’ll be at home. Drawing with me, playing the keyboard with me, listening to music really loudly and laughing at things on the internet when Mum and Dad go shopping...

Sitting on our trampoline and laughing with me (or at me… usually at me).

At first, Taryn may seem like a very shy girl. But once you get to know her you find that she can be outgoing and has a great sense of humor, filled with wittiness and a little bit of sarcasm. She is known by her many friends for her artistic skill and her love of animals.

My sister refuses to use makeup products that were tested on animals and one day decided to become a vegetarian because, well… I’m not really sure WHY but she loved steak so much my parents and I assumed she’d break after a week. She didn’t and she hasn’t eaten a single twenty pack of chicken mcnuggets on her midnight round since. My sister isn’t shy. My sister isn’t always outgoing. She’s doesn’t like most movies and she really isn’t a fan of running. Taryn isn’t into maths, but she’s into art and even interested in some historical events. She enjoys watching Riverdale, but rugby … not so much. Though we don’t have a lot in common and there is an age gap between us, we get along like a house on fire.

It doesn’t matter where or when. Taryn without fail, always has her enormous iPhone 7+ within reach, barely fitting in her pocket. The glossy case containing her license and ID, and her lockscreen being a picture of her and her boyfriend, which usually is unseeable as the screen is covered in Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram notifications. Her phone is basically her life and without it, it is extremely possible she would die of boredom.

My big sister is the best sister I could possibly ask for  and my life wouldn’t be the same without her. Even though she’s a bit older than me her being eighteen me being thirteen, she’s been my midget partner in crime since the day I was born and I wouldn’t sell her unless it was for the right price.

Andy Warhol Pop Art- Arts Kete

This week in Arts Kete, we did many things, mostly evolving around food. We made an ode to food, which is a short usually not rhyming poem and we also made a draft drawing of our food and a final copy. So far I have only done my draft. My drawing was of a Hell's Pizza delivery box, mostly because the illustrations look really cool.

Here is my draft:

This week I learnt more about what Andy Warhol inspired art consists of and how to create it, which has helped me with creating my draft drawing.

I enjoyed thinking about and drawing my draft and I also enjoyed reading other peoples odes.

My next step is to make my final copy of my Hell's Pizza drawing/painting.

AndyWarhol Pop Art- Festival of the Arts

This week was our first week of doing the Arts Kete. The subject I'm doing is Andy Warhol wall art (also known as pop art, short for popular art). This week we made a D.L.O (digital learning objective) on all the information we could find on Andy Warhol. This is what I made using sketch.io.

We also made a digital name tag for ourselves. I used google drawings and made a design, then copied it four times and made it four different colours. Then I added two slim black rectangles to divide them. Here's what I made:

I found it interesting that Andy Warhol created pop art on soup because he loved it so much he had it for lunch every day for 20 years.

I want to find out how Andy Warhol came up with the original idea of pop art.

I would like to make a sketch inspired by Andy Warhol pop art, possibly of a celebrity or something else.

Pixel Art

Last Wednesday, we were taught how to do a number of interesting things on Google Sheets. One of these things was how to make pixel art. By changing the shape of the boxes from rectangular to square, you can make pixel art. This is what I made using Google Sheets.

I made this by finding a picture online and using it as a template

New Zealand and the theory of continental Drift

New Zealand and the Theory of Continental Drift

Why does New Zealand not have crocodiles?

New Zealand was once connected to Australia at a time when crocodiles were only just starting to come into existence. Crocodiles back then looked very different then they do now. New Zealand broke away from Australia before those crocodiles appeared in New Zealand.

Why is New Zealand's only a mammal a bat?

Prior to human settlement, the mammals of New Zealand only consisted of several species of bats other than marine mammals. So why do we only have bats? Well, New Zealand, once again, broke off from Australia before these started to come into existence. Australian mammals such as kangaroos, wallabies, dingoes, koalas and possums evolved after New Zealand and Australia separated.

Why is there no evidence of woolly mammoths ever existing in New Zealand?

Back in the time of Pangaea, New Zealand was on the warmer half of Earth and our climate was too warm, where as the mammoths were in the part of the world where the climate was cold and much different.

Wetas and tuataras are living fossils. What does this mean?

The tuatara is the last member of an order of reptiles that lived, along with the dinosaurs, 225 million years ago. The order is rhynchocephalia, which is Greek for"beak head." The term living fossil is a term used for a living organism that has remained relatively unchanged from earlier geological times and whose close relatives are usually extinct.

My Logo

One on our must do's this week was to create a logo either on paper or digitally that in some way represents us. Here is a photo of the one I made:

I chose to create a logo looking like this because it represents the two things I enjoy the most, playing the piano and jumping out of aeroplanes! It also has the letter N for my name but that's a minor detail...

Changes in Nature

Changes in Nature

Changes to Earth's climate have affected the plants and animals living at different times. The geologic time periods, are different eras when different creatures plants and a different atmosphere existed, instead of the ones we have today.

What are the Geologic time periods?

Archean

Proterozoic: Paleoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic 
Neoproterozoic: Tonian, Cryogenian, Ediacaran

Paleozoic: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian

Mesozoic: Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous

Cenozoic: Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Holocene.

Endangered Species: Why we Should Save the Whales

Save the Whales

                   

Gymnastics Part 4

Gymnastics

This week was the final week of gymnastics of the year for the year 8's. We started off the lesson by warming up (Running and stretching), then we had a recap of what we did the week before. Our P.E teachers Mr Hilliard and Mrs Merrin went back over the safety regulations for the trampoline and other equipment, and then we all split into groups and went to the different stations, where we stayed for 10 minutes before moving on to the next.

These stations included: A high beam, a low beam, a trampoline, two different types of sets of bars, a mat (for forward rolls, backward rolls and cartwheels) and a bounce pad with a big foam mat in front of it to land on. 

On one of the sets of bars we had to lift ourselves up, then lift our knees up and put our legs out in front of us. On the other bar, we had to get up using our legs, and flip back down, onto a mat sitting underneath. On the beams, we had to practice jumping over a cone forwards and backwards with our eyes closed with out falling. On the mat we had to practice on properly doing cartwheels, forward rolls, backwards rolls and on the bounce pad we had to practice jumping with both feet and landing steadily with both feet.

My favourite thing about Gymnastics this year was using the beams, and learning how to do backwards flip on the bar. I also learnt how to use the other set of bars this year wich I couldn't last year.

Chernobyl

Chernobyl

The Chernobyl disaster of 1986, was the most catastrophic nuclear accident in recorded history. It took place in the city of Pripyat Ukraine, and dominates the energy accidents sub-category of the most disastrous nuclear power plant accident in history, both in terms of costs and casualties. On the 26th of April 1986, 31 people lost their lives, and 134 more obtained high enough doses of radiation to receive acute radiation syndrome, at the same time changing their lives forever.

This catastrophe occurred during a during a late-night safety test which simulated a station blackout power failure, in which safety systems were deliberately turned off. After a combination of inherent reactor design flaws, and the operators arranging the power core in the wrong way, it started to react negatively uncontrollably. Water turned to steam, and generated a deadly and destructive explosion, as well as an open air graphite fire. This fire produces considerable up-drafts for around 9 days. 

Today, the remains of what is called "The No.4 reactor building" are enclosed in a large cover which has been named the "Object shelter" as it still radiates with toxins, and may stay under this dome like figure for eternity.

The"Object Shelter" in Pripyat Ukraine