Arcimboldo art

I have tried to copy Arcimboldo's style of art but my was fruit.

Critique Of My Van Gogh Replica

Having to duplicate a painting by Vincent Van Gogh was very difficult, the most hardest thing was the smooth background . The wonderful Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and pipe Van Gogh, The painting of the cut ear is magnificent ( painted 1889) . Here is a critique of mine and his painting:

The texture is comparable because, the mood is gloomy and well, dark.The only light part is on the jacket with specks of white.As you can see I have tried to flick of white on the hat, like Vincient Van Gogh.

I have attempted to paint (on the hat) in a flower patterned technique.My chin is darker than his, mine is blackish brown , his is light brown . My painting is a bit messy, but I am quite happy with it.Up close mine is all over the place with colors.


The feeling is dark and gloomy, I don’t think that he was happy at the time because he just cut off his ear.Did you know that there have been stories of how it got cut off, The first story is that he threatened his flat mate Paul Gauguin with a razor, Van Gogh got so angry he cut his left ear lobe off. The second story (That I think is no true, but I don’t know) is that he cut his left ear lobe off and gave it to his girlfriend.


I am happy with the image of the face, and the hat. I think it looks unique .However am not happy with is the black outline, I think it is too thick. It looks like he has no chin.


I could improve my work, by making the cloths smoother and the background smoother too. Next time to not put colors everywhere.I think I would have shade out the chin and the face.
The smoke on mine is grey so I would love to make it white, and I have too much smoke . At the bottom of the background the length is not the same.

I think that he is a magnificent artist. I’m sure there will never be someone that can paint in Van Gogh style.

Self-Portrait Ear Banged and Pipe

I have attempted to paint Van Gogh's Self-portrait.

Starry Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh had a very depressing life, but some times it felt great. He was really feeling good. Starry starry night was painted in 1989.

I think Van Gogh was quite happy at the time he painted this piece of art. The top of the painting is bright and the bottom is dark and sleepy, with specks of bright shining light from the windows. The stars are very shiny but the thing that stands out the most(on the top of the picture) is the crescent moon because it is sparkling like the water on a fine summer's morning. It looked like it was moving too, like most of his paintings.

Two objects that stand out are the Cypress tree and the church church steeple. Both were quite tall and slim, and both have a sharp tip. You can see the big broad brush strokes on the tree but not on the church. The church was man made contrasting with the natural tree. The tree looks like a big flame.

The patterns are very curvy . The colours all stand out and blend in together properly. Instead of it all being mixed up. The objects are blended in together a good way not a bad way.

Even to this day people admire his paintings. It is worth lot's of money. He is probably one of the best artist.

My Math tratergy.

This is my math strategy named 'Compensation'.

Swimming

“ROOM 17 PLEASE REPORT TO THE GATE”!!!!!!!! Ms Garden screeched. So I ran as fast as

I could. Did you know that in Aotearoa the law is that everybody has to learn how to swim

because New Zealand is surrounded by water?

When we got to the pools we had to get changed and have a shower to get rid of the dirt and the

chemicals. After rinsing myself I walked back to the bench and about two seconds later I was

shivering because I was so cold.

“Here you go”, said the instructor while she handed the flutter boards to us. Then she explained

“okay everybody, put your hands on the end of the board and kick all the way to the island and

then stop”. For me it was quite easy.

But when we had swam two lengths of the pool She said, “ Pile the boards on the top of the pool.

and now we are going to do freestyle.”She showed us a technique to keep our hands straight. I

held my arms high and held them together as hard as I could then I just kicked furiously and my

arms flapped like a duck flying away from an alligator. I thought I did very well.

The lady said “How do you know all our techniques.” I replied ,” I know because I go swimming

lesson here and I am in silver”. ( Silver is the second best group out of 8)

So she moved me to group three the best group.

I thought that it was cool at swimming because I knew the instructors.But the water was so cold.

The End

Anzac tin

This is a anzac biscuit tin I have created.