My Visual Mihimihi

Hi everyone, in this blog post I will tell you guys about what we have created during the first two weeks of school.

My class have created Visual Mihimihis. We have learnt about how to write our Mihi, and found out about the places that are special to us and where we are from.

We also were shown examples of a Visual Mihimihi, which is on an A3 piece of paper and has 3 main things on it:

1. A self portrait or a photo
2. Places that are special to us
3. Symbols or photos of things that represent our culture.

I found it a bit difficult to find things to draw onto my Visual Mihimihi, and also keeping with my theme of drawing everything that I add to it definitely slowed me down... A LOT!
But I am happy with my finished product, and think it was a fun way to start the year.
This would accompany our Mihi, which we recorded and used as a voice over for our Visual Mihimihi.

Please watch, enjoy, and comment about what I have created!  

NZ Artist Study

Rei Hamon: New Zealand Pointillism Artist

(The one of the most successful artists in history, but also one of the least known.)

I Chose Rei Hamon because his life story is amazing, and how he came about to paint is really interesting!

If you read on, you will find about the life story of a hard working artist ,

who went through many challenges to get where where he was in the 1970's.

Francis Rei Paul Hamon, was born in Auckland December, 17, 1919.

As a boy, he grew up in Gisborne in the North Island.

He was used to working hard, helping his parents to enlarge their their small dairy farm.

From a young age, he went into the Urewera area to split posts in the bush for sheep stations.

For over forty years, Rei and his family, lived, worked in the bush.

In 1965, Rei was hurt in a farm accident, with serious back injury that almost left him paralysed.

Unable to do any more hard labour, he and his family were broke. They did not know what to do.

One day his daughter left her ballpoint pen and he pad at home. 

Rei found it, and started to draw, something that he had never done since early primary school!

He was embarrassed by his first drawings, and hid them, but his wife found them and took them to a local photographer. The photographer was impressed with their quality, and took them to

the director of a leading art gallery in Auckland, who immediately 

wanted to stage a show of Rei’s work.

That is how eventually with much practice, he developed a unique art style called pointillism.

He was a popular artist in the 1970s and 1980s, his drawings captured the

native New Zealand bush. He drew from the giant Kauri tree, to the tiny Manuka flower.

Sadly Rei died in 2008, but his artwork, and his life story still; and will continue to inspires other.

Post Impressionism Pointillism

Here is an inspiring peice of Pointillism art work called - "Misty Sunset"- By

Catherine Bath

Post Impressionism

This art Work is done by a New Zealand artist called Robert Nettleton Field.

His art work style is called Post impressionism.

His art work is painted by using layers and brush techniques.

 

What do you think? 

Spectrem Street Art Prezi