For the second semester in art this year, we are creating sculptures of ourselves.

So far, we have used wire as our skeleton and newspaper as our muscles. We then needed to paper mache ourselves to completely define the shape our our bodies - muscles and features included.

I have decided use a picture of myself rowing as I love the sport even though I have only just started doing it at the beginning of this year!

I am really looking forward to making my sculpture as I have never really done anything like this before and it has always been something that I have wanted to try!

In art this year an aboriginal painter came into class and taught us about drawing ourselves using the negative spaces. She also showed us how to do dot painting and this is mainly where the inspiration for our task came from.

I really enjoyed completing this task! I learnt so much about drawing and about art in general. Now that I know how to draw myself more accurately, I am always going to draw using that technique!

Even though the dotting looks great in the end, trying to keep the dotting even was really difficult for me I also found trying to make the right skin colour for my particular skin tone hallenging as well!

I really learnt to look at the negative spaces I pictures through this task. I also learnt to look at the lines in photographs and that I needed to replicate them in me painting to create the illusion of form. I need to make sure I look for the directon of the lines so that my picture can look 3D as well.

Overall, I am glad that I completed this task and I am sure that the skills I have learnt througout it will be very useful in the future!