Last day of tech!

Today the Year 8’s from Saint Patrick’s School went to Pakuranga Intermediate for Technicraft.

The art room smelt like paint because there were different coloured paints poured out  on the pieces of paper where Mr.B was standing. We all began by talking about tones because we were going to paint our city landscape with the paint we wanted to use into light, medium and a dark colours.

Mr.B showed us how to make a tone with the colour orange. He took two scoops of orange with his paintbrush and placed it with the white paint colour and mixed it all up. It gave us a light orange. He painted one building. Then he added another two scoops of the orange colours to the same mixture so that it would give a bit of a darkish colour. He painted the second landscape. He mixed another two scoops so that the orange colour can become even more darker. The buildings were shaded with light, medium and dark colours of orange.

The skills that I learnt in art is how to blend colours together and what tint and tones are. Tint are colours that are mixed in with grey to become a dark-ish colour. Tones are colours that are mixed in with white to become a light colour.