When I Grow Up

    When I grow up I will have a job as a professional basketball player. I will be on a professional team and play against other basketball players. To travel to play other teams I will be going on solar powered air planes. I will then take an electric battery powered car to get to the team. When I grow up I will live in a mansion that is environmentally friendly. My house will have solar panels on the roof. There will be a solar powered roadway for cars to drive on. This is what will happen when I grow up.

My Van Gogh Self Portrait

                        

This picture shows my rough draft,                            This picture shows my final draft.
when I was first staring my portrait.                                 My end portrait.          


          Throughout the entire process of creating a self portrait, I learned lots of things in art that I did not know last year. One thing I learned is that to create a self portrait you have to notice everything on your face, including the smallest details. I found out that the darker spots on my face were next to my nose and under my lip. The lighter spot was the left side of my face. Another new thing I learned is that when you use pastels, using the color white in your artwork helps to blend the other colors together. This helps to strengthen your drawing.
    I liked using pastel because there were more colors which meant there were more different types of mixtures. I chose to try Van Gogh's style of painting because it was unique and elegant in a kind of way. If we got to do this again I would try painting with Chuck Close's style just to see how different the two are. Overall this was a fun and interesting unit where I learned lots about art.

                                                                   

The One and Only Ivan

Today we listened to the book, The One and Only Ivan. I think that this is a really good book so far because it's coming from a gorilla's point of view. What stands out to me is that this gorilla, Ivan, can be so calm and mellow even though he is lonely and depressed.