Taonga Time With Mrs Tele'a

“ This is going to be fun” I was talking to Brooklyn on the way to Taonga time with Mrs Tele’a. Every Friday afternoon we go to Taonga Time to learn about different things for 5 weeks. In some of the classes people were taking, they were going to paint the picnic tables in the street, movie making, sports and some other things. I'm with Mrs Tele’a making movies. Last week we were learning how to use time lapse for our projects.


When using time lapse, one by one you draw the lines and copy them onto different cards. You keep doing this until you have drawn the whole picture. Then you put it all into a movie. In the end it shows the process of your picture and how you have used the texture.

For our project we had to trace a famous painting by Robyn Kahukiwa. She was born in Australia but moved to New Zealand when she was 19 years old. She was a self taught painter and started painting in 1967 living with her family in Greymouth.

I chose to draw the wonderful painting Upoko Whero by Robyn Kahukiwa.  I thought it was going to be very easy to draw it but I was wrong. The object of the painting was the simple part until I got up to the shading. It was hard to find the right texture on the computer to fit the painting. So I just used the oil paint tool to show the texture.

This week when we go to Taonga Time I want to get straight into my drawing and finishing it off properly.