A colourful koha! Year 8 Art Project - 2020

Every year, the Year 8s work on an art project - a chance to leave behind a koha to celebrate their time at Pt England School, however long or short!

This year, Ms. Tapuke gave the Year 8s their design brief: create a pattern using only triangles mixing paint using three primary colours - red, blue and yellow.

Starting with a 1.8m piece of treated decking timber - each piece was primed with undercoat (Shout out to  Mrs Tele'a, Mrs Ilaoa and Ms Tipene!) and then the preparation began before touching any paint!

Each student could work with a buddy or on their own to mark up their design - thinking about the size of each triangle and the overall pattern or effect they wanted to create using a set of cool colours (in blues or greens) or warm colours (reds, yellows. oranges).

We used a LOT of masking tape to define the sections of the board for each colour - an important step to get right so that the edges between each colour would be clear and defined. Check out the sharp lines on AJ Faleono and Jezakaia's work - well done you two!

Spread across Room 2, the street and Room 4 (Massive thank yous to Mrs Stone, Mr Hughes, Tyson, Mr Wright and Miss McCartney). the students got into it - having fun experimenting (= making lots of mess! LOL!) with different colour combinations from blood reds, delicate pinks to bright yellows, baby blues and forest greens!

A message from Ms. Tapuke:

A huge PAKIPAKI to the Year 8s of 2020 - you should be really proud of yourselves. After the year we had, you still stuck with it right to the end and smashed this art project in the final weeks of Term 4.

Keep an eye on the wall of the Whare Ako to see your  masterpieces on display!
(Cheers in advance Mr Jacobsen!)