Matariki Art

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for the last 3 weeks, we've been making Matariki prints to celebrate the upcoming event.

I started off my Matariki prints by making a draft picture for which I would then print onto my foam block, this took some time because we had to flip the stars so it would print the right way when I put it on my paper.

The next part of my Matariki art was putting it on foam, I used blunt pencils to outline my foam and then later used a pen to outline my lines (again). After the anxiety-filling process of outlining the foam, I finally got to dye my piece of foam and print it.

For my piece of foam, I chose to make the background the color blue and the mountains green instead of merging to colors together, though I made the mistake of coloring the river green instead of blue.

I only chose to do one print I seemed to have let my foams dye dry a bit so it didn't come off fulls when I washed it off, that also affected my only piece of art, which looked drained of life.

Overall I did enjoy the Matariki art though the expectations of my art didn't match.