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.