The Matariki stars

 Hey bloggers, the past few weeks we have been learning about Matariki and the Maori new year.

Since Matariki is coming up on 2 of July we thought it would be fun to do a Matariki art piece. 

We did foam printing. Foam printing is when you draw on foam and coat the foam in ink and transfer it onto paper. I drew a random mountains range but you can draw whatever mountains you want. 

The steps to make the foam printing art are simple.

Step 1: draw your design on a piece of paper(remember to do it backwards for it to come out the right way)

Step 2: once you are happy with you drawing then draw you work and keep it backwards on to your foam with a ball point pen and don't pierce it of it will show up.

Step 3: then put your ink on the foam and make sure you use a lot.

Step 4: once done putting on the ink place in face up on a table and put the paper on top and smooth the paper out .

Step 5: rub the paper on to the foam and then slowly peel the paper away from the foam.

Step 6: then let your art work dry and if you want you can wash the foam and make more art work.

To make the frame you get an A3 piece of paper and cut out the size of the foam from the middle and then boom you've got your frame.

I really like the color and design of mine but i could have made my lines a little deeper and used more ink. 

What would you do if you did foam art.