Imagery

It means to use our thoughts and ideas and paint it out into a visual representation. It is to further impact an idea.

2 examples of Imagery:

"I wandered lonely as a cloud. That floats on high o'er vales and hills. When all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils. Beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze" -William Wordsworth

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep..."-Robert Frost

My own example:

My heart is beating, red and alive but my brain thinks I should die.

Antithesis

Antithesis is a literary technique where two ideas are put together in one sentence and they contradict each other. Antithesis literally translates to 'opposite'. The effect this has is to emphasise the contrast of the two ideas. This is used for the readers to clearly see the opposing ideas and why they are so contradicting from each other.

2 well-known uses for Antithesis.
"To err is human: to forgive is divine" -Alexander Pope
"Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n" -John Milton

My own example:
The sun is a symbol of happiness but the rain is sadness. Why is that? Some people find joy in the plundering rain while others find the glimmering sun to be the cause of happiness.

Anaphora

Anaphora is a deliberate repetition at the start of consecutive sentences to create an emotional effect. The effect this language feature provides is to emphasise the said text. This is used for the author to emotionally connect to his/her readers.

2 well-known examples of Anaphora:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning." Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

My own example:
"It is feeding on my thoughts. It is scratching and crawling it's way to my very soul. It is creating an improving facade of a walking daydream just to grasp my heart tighter. It is making me a mindless zombie, obeying it's every command. It is controlling me. This thing called love."

Art Review PART 1

This my plan for my first board. A representation of where my papers are going to be placed and how big or small they are. The dimensions of every paper are recorded to size as well.

Then I cut out all the needed paper for my boards.

Next, are all my ideas of what I am going to put on my board. A brainstorm of every idea I had and colour palettes ill be using. I ended up coming up with the idea of dragons but manipulated into something to do with the Maori gods. For example, Tanemahuta, the god of the forests, will be a dragon with bark-like skin and ferocious gold eyes. I have 4 gods I want to focus on throughout my boards.

Next are just practise drawings and paintings for my boards.

And by the end of the practice phase, I finalised my decision and started on my first paintings for my board. Using Indian ink and charcoal I created a background texture on all four paintings. Obviously, each colour represents a god. Red for Ruaumoko, yellow for Tanemahuta, blue for Tawhirimatea and purple for Tangaroa. Then using white pastel I added highlights to each piece. This is the work I did in term 1.

 A lot of planning and sketching occurred during producing my art works for my boards. On the left are sketches of dragons I possibly could have used and also familiarising myself with dragon anatomy. On the right are my perceptions of Ranginui and Papatuanuku. They are in humanoid form because it is easier to understand my story by using this form yet they can come in many different ways.

On the left is my final planning for the ends of my boards. Using space to calculate the possibilities of my future pieces and to somewhat give me an idea of what I want. To the right is a quick sketch of a face that shows the tone of a humans face. Or presumably of where some of the shadows would go.

 These are used to show my understanding of tone.