Charcoal Work

Working through charcoal has been fun but messy, so far I have done two pieces of charcoal work I also used soft pastels or chalk to put more colour into the artworks.

For this specific piece I have used a pacific flower. The colours I have used for this piece of work is red, yellow and orange to make the fiery part of the artwork and I used different blues and light and dark green to create a ocean like colour. 

This represents fire and water, it is as if fire and water going at each others throats. My understanding of the two colours is your sad and depressing moments and your angry and frustration moments and to me the flower represents the thing that keeps you calm, no matter what like the thing that keeps you moving and 

Art

This year I will be focussing on Spiritual and Cultural as my kaupapa.

I have chosen this theme because it shows my cultural background and spiritual beliefs. 

The media I will work with is paint and design.

the two artists I have chose from 1.1 is Shane Cotton and Sofia Minson from list one, Roy Lichtenstein and Vincent Van Gogh from list two.

The artist I am interested in for my kaupapa is Franc Marz.