1.2 Art

 In art, we have been working on our portfolios. My Kaupapa is about Filipino Culture but it is mostly focused on the folk tale story of the Bakunawa(A sea serpent). 

 I have finished working on my first board and am now working on my second board which is almost done. 

I chose this theme because I wanted to do something with my culture and its traditions. Choosing this theme also made me research and learn more about the Philipines, like the use of the old writing system Baybayin, which was what the characters of our alphabet looked like before the Philippines was colonized. 

My artist models are Robyn Kahukiwa and several ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai. 

This first still life is a drawing of my brother's water bottle. I sketched this with a normal lead pencil in our living room in the afternoon. 

The second still life sketch is a Pop figure of the 

Pixar character Alberto, who is a sea monster. I drew him with a normal lead pencil in my room beside my window where there was light seeping through.  

This last still life is drawn using charcoal which was referenced from an image online. I have to admit that charcoal was a medium I have never used before so this was an experience but it was fun to work with. I liked how easy you can blend with it. ( this has nothing to do with my kaupapa but I thought I should put this here too) 

Reference

This is my first board. Which consists of different media. Painting, Digital art, and printmaking(the moons in the last panel). The whole thing about this board is about the Bakunawa eating the moons. I tried not to add too many details and keep everything flat to replicate the ukiyo-e style. 

PPP

  For PPP Lauren and I collaborated on making a short comic for her story, "Intention" For about five weeks in three periods each. PPP is 3 hours a week we can do our own learning for our passions and interests. 

It went well but we didn't get to the interesting part as there wasn't enough time also I am very slow at drawing. 

Plan for Panel 2

 

Pathos,Logos, Ethos

In English, We are learning about persuasive writing and currently learning about the three persuasive writing techniques. Pathos, Ethos and Logos. We are doing this to enhance our persuasive writing so that we can appeal to the audience more. 

 We are learning about  Pathos, which translates suffering, experience or emotion from greek is a technique that is used to convince an audience through emotions. It is used to persuade the person to feel emphatic, making you feel emotions. For instance, an animal or a child is usually in posters or ads to make the audience feel emphatic. An example of this is in this poster. They used a child so that it'll have more impact. Just looking at this poster makes you think who in their right mind would give a child smoking but then if you read it further into it's a go vegan type of ad. They've used a child to show that eating meat is as bad as smoking and how you shouldn't feed a child meat. 

( I don't agree with this though) 

Ethos, which translates to custom or character from greek,  it is a type of writing that the writer uses where they credit themselves so the audience/customer can trust that the product or what they're trying to persuade can be trusted. It is used to convince the audience through authority and credibility. For instance, if a writer says that they've been writing for years, you'd assume that they're a really good writer and you might even consider buying one of their books. An example of the use of Ethos is in this ad where they've put " #1 band recommended by dentists" which shows us that dentists - the people who are the ones who diagnose and treat people who have oral problems- approve of this which means people would buy this as professionals put trust in this product. 

Logos, which means logic. This is where statistics, data, facts,  numbers and etc. is used. It is used in persuading the audience with logic and reason to appeal to them. For instance, in food ads, they'd put the amount of fat, carbs or sugar which are usually very low which makes the audience want to buy the product as they'd think they won't gain as much weight. Another example of Logos is this poster, They've used the new features of the product to appeal to the audience and to show how it is better than all the other phones. The use of numbers is very effective too. 

AS 90913 v4 internal assessment 4 credits - Literacy blog post 5

 What connections can you make between the two Artists Kaupapa and the use of text and image?

Tracey Tawhiao and Robyn Kahukiwa have similar kaupapa as they both are Maori so they represent their culture in their artwork. They use text and images to further enhance and send a clearer message by adding words to images. Since Maori culture isn't represented so well in the media, these artists represent their culture

Robyn Kahukiwa's artworks are more focused on the past and mostly focusing on feminism while Tracey Tawhiao's artworks are focused on the present and use subversion to show how the media treats Maori and Pacifica, people.

An example of Robyn Kahukiwas artwork. Here she has painted 6 women and used a very monotoned colour palette with greens, yellows and reds.

This is Tracey Tawhiaos artwork where she uses different tones of red and used a lot of grids with symbols: fishes, korus, triangles and diamonds.

Art - Series and Sequences

 In art, we have been thinking of our Kaupapa and how we are going to layout our art portfolios. 

For this activity, we are to point out what belongs as a series of work that stands alone by itself. Our teacher taught us that we can look at our portfolios like an essay; the first few parts are the introduction, the body and then the last image could be the link to another paragraph which is the second part of the portfolio. 

My Reflection

In the Kete Celebrating Cultures, I created a static image digitally about my Filipino culture. 

I first drew my draft on paper and then drew it digitally after.

I got the idea of putting the buffalo and the eagle because they are the national animals of the Philippines. Then I got the idea to put baybayin because it was the old letters used when the Spanish haven't colonized the Philippines. I got the idea to put the sun rays on her head from an image I saw online. I stuck with the colour pallet of the Philippines flag and the design of her clothes like the stars which represent the 3 major islands of the Philippines. I got the idea of the pearls on her hair, neck and hands from the quote "Perlas ng Silanganan" or "Pearl of the East". The quote is from the Philippine national anthem. 

I worked well. Although there were a lot of things I wasn't satisfied with, I am pretty satisfied with it.