Passion project blogpost

I finally finished three stone sculptures! I am super proud that I have finishe three sculptures in 5 or 6 weeks when this was my first time doing it. Today I am making a blogpost about my ratings throughout the stone carving sessions. In those sessions I have accomplished some goals that I have set, Well I could'nt really say set myself because Mr Mitchell showed us how to do everything. No you must be wondering what were those goals that I have accomplished, if you don't care about it I will still share them with you. One of them is knowing how to curve the edges It was fun but I was so confused at the start until Mr Mitchell and Mr Palmer showed us how to do it. I was asking myself so many questions like how can this block of stone into a Koru I was not sure with the teachers instructions but I just trusted the ta hers and he process. I also learnt what the names of different tools are like a cheese grater, Chisel, rasp, mallet and much more.

My favourite part throughout all the stone carving session were obviously the hands on things like carving the stone itself or learning new thing about stone carving. but I actually liked it equally with researching it was easy since we only had to research about basic things. Also one researching session we got to use paint and create things also using modelling clay and fabric. The first time we did researching we just had to do some drawings or find some more maori designs.

The things that were challenging were trying to understand that process and staying positive if I broke my stone.

If I needed to improve I would rather learn more about carving and before Inwould do it again so I have more experience.

My final comments for this time of passion project is that I was amazing and so fun I would define try try it again and I recommend you try it to.

Man Vs Self

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Alchemy!

Today for science we did alchemy with alchemy our aim was to try turning a copper coin gold. for it to turn gold we had to boil 50 ml of zinc nitrate after that we add zinc metal strips to it. Then we let it boil for 10 minutes. I was put into a group with Teyha and Blake, at first, the color of your coin was turning into a rainbowish paua shell color. One of the groups had found a cool thing about their coin it was burnt so they tried to rub it and it ended being a shiny metallic color. For us we after the rainbow color it turned into a silverish color. It was a pretty fun experiment it didn't actually matter if we got it wrong or right because every other coin would change to different colors. In the process, we took a few photos and here they are.

  This is how it is supposed to like when you set it up.

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       We turned on the orange flame and it burned our beaker 

        This is a 20-second video of us hold the coin over the flame

     and here is the final result it is a little shady but it turned out like a silvery color.

After the experiment, I thought that it was really fun and how I learned a lot more new things maybe I should have held it over the flame longer overall it turned out right.