Self portraits

Our Collage Self Portraits

Every year we find a new way to create our self portrait images at the start of the year. This year we decided to use collage and created some whacky self portraits using magazine pictures. We cut out heaps of facial features and collaged them onto our faces. We had an extra challenge to create our hair out of something unusual. Have a look at our slide show showing our self portraits.

Look inside our nocturnal kiwi worlds

Working with artist Janet de Wagt

In March Dunedin artist Janet de Wagt spent the day in our classroom helping us create our own special 3-d artworks. We created little nocturnal environments for kiwis and used a camouflaged and transformed soft toy to become a part of our environment. We painted our boxes black and cut viewing slits so we could peek inside to see our kiwis in their night time world. It was lots of fun. We talked about the important concept of re-visiting our work until it gets better and better and is fully completed. Here are some photos of our finished kiwi environments.