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.

Passion Passion Update

26.11.16

Today's session in passion projects we were still working on our hei matau like sculptures, It was really fun my sculpture broke since one side was really thin it all happened when I was trying to get it to the right shape with a chisel and it suddenly broke without my notice. I was with Skyler and Megan also Mika I was scared to tell them I thought they were gonna overreact and say my name, but Megan saw it first and she did not care and she told everyone else and I was relieved cause they did not care either. So I told the teacher, Mr. Mitchel, and he checked it up for me he wasn't able to do anything to it yet since he was busy drilling holes in everyone else's normal sculpture my one looked like an uneven teardrop. The now here I am researching and blog posting about my on hand on period.

Stone Sculpturing Art Blog#2

Today in our passion project we finally finished our small model of our Koru and at the moment we thought we were done and going to move onto our larger project. We had to create something related to "Hei Matau" I wasn't very successful in the shape. It turned out with one side being really long and thin and the other side being thick and short, I wasn't really proud of it "yet" but I kept working with it. The was our on-hand things then we were up to research not so fun stuff but also it was fun since most of was drawing and figuring out what we would want on our big sculpture. I had also finished my design on the piece of paper I finished writing how I wanted it to be and what the meanings of it are I found something on the web. But modifying it with different kinds of things depending on the size of the block we are provided with, The things were adding a Koru onto it and the Manaia. A koru is part of New Zealand's native plant the Fern, and the Manaia is a Maori known mythical creature. Please comment if you know anything about carving stones or if there is more I could add :)