My Family Star

Over the last week, I have been working on my visual pepeha. First, we made a draft in our art books, then we would go up to the teacher to get it signed off as proof they had seen it. Next, we would use try out the colours we might use on our draft and then look at how we would arrange all the parts of our pepeha into a star that we drew by ourselves. Then we would show the teacher again and if it was a Supernova we would get our star and go onto a completely new step. Tayla and I were quite nervous to create our stars in case something went wrong. But I felt once we started working there was no going back and redrawing everything. Once we had finished drawing we started colouring in our pencil lines with coloured pencils. Once that was done our stars looked like it was done by a famous Artist, But there was one thing left to do… Sharpie it!! So once that was done we would bring it into the teachers. Then we would have to get some photos and they had to be sent to the teachers by Thursday. Then on Friday afternoon our parents or family could come in and help us stick and glue our photos onto our stars and then they’re finished.

I am proud of what I had done as my family. Since I live on a Dairy farm I decided to draw a Friesian calve (inspired by one of the calves I raised.) and in all of the white spots I had Mum, Dad and Chloe and on the white legs, I had Maddison and Katelyn (Me!!).

What I found challenging was drawing the calve because I had to get the ears right so they didn’t point up to the sky like a Horses and also the face shape.

I worked with my Mum and Ashley to create my whanau star.