Life of Caddy

this is our picture collage...trust me, the pics are 100% taken and NOT downloaded...i especiall luv the swirly designs along the border!yay! a good piece of work done!


Description:

Caddy has golden blonde hair, she adores hamsters and guinea pigs.
She likes to apply pink lipstick
and has to study Chemistry, Physics and Biology for GCSEs. [Pictures of textbooks and College]
Once, Caddy and Indigo were down with chickenpox.

Caddy yearned for sunshine very much.

She also wished to go Africa for Zoology.[pictures of animals, entrance of zoos and jeeps]

Her house from grandfather was at Wales. Caddy's house was pretty rundown[Pictures of houses and map of Wales]

Caddy derived her name from colours chart, Cadmium Lemon and Scarlet, which are bold and bright. [Pictures of lemon,beds and sunflowers]

And lastly, there were skimpy tops.

Sculpture- Friendship

Description:
This sculpture shows Saffy and Sarah holding hands. This can be seen when Sarah lend her hand to help Saffy to head back her home at Siena. Both of them have a special friendship and the friendships between them are beneficial in both directions.
The girls happily ignore each other's disadvantages (Saffy's poverty and Sarah's immobility) The colourful freindship locket represent their strong friendship bond that binds them together. The star represent angel and in this case Sarah is helping Saffy to find her stone angel. There is a shadow that casts upon them that shapes like a heart otherwise their true bonding.




This one is the back view...love the heart and the star,curtesy of si ying's mum,she helped us sew the two shapes
this is the top view of our sculpture...i don't know if its really considered a sculpture but...its full of our effort so i guess it should be ok,haha!
this is the front view of our sculpture...looks really cool but the things at the back can't be seen...but the back view'll cover it:D

poem and painting

description:
this picture shows a mother and her child walking into the horizon
They leave a heart-felt shadow behind them upon sweet and
thoughtful memories they'd built together. the mother shelters her
child with her wing, showing guidance and protection as they venture
into the unknown together as mother and child.
My poem:

There's only one person in this world
who can see me as who I am
give me freedom to spread my wings
and soar with her lending a hand

She acts like a gentle stream
with me as a rocking boat
guide me through the treacherous channels
to reach my destination afloat

She, i know, will stand by me
through all thick and thin
even when the world crumbles down
she'll stay my closest kin

That, would be my mother
the brightest star of all
in my deep and dark tonight
she'll catch me when i fall~

--vera sng(31)

SA1 Individual

Description:
As you can see, the sun is radiating love to the plant. It means that the sun, which symbolises the mother, gives love to the plant when the plant is growing. The sun provides light for it to make food, and also guides the plant through life. No matter where the plants is, the sun will always be there. The sun is just like a mother, loving and taking care of the child (plant).

Poem:

You are the one

You are the one who brought me to earth,

you are the one who held me each day.

You are the one who gave birth to me

and love me in every possible way.

You are the one who taught me everything,

such as crawling and walking.

You are the one who taught me how to sing

after teaching me about talking.

You are the one who told me to keep cool

whenever I met with bullies in school.

You are the one who told me to be nice

and also gave me some good advice.

You are the one who taught me reading

and you are the one who taught me eating.

You are the one who cared for me

and never leave me when I'm sick.

You are the one who gives me unconditioned love,

and also telling me to appreciate one another.

No one would bother me,

unless you are my mother!

-Kemberly

Literature SA1 (exhibit #1)


Part A
HAIKU: In gratitude of my Mother

Gratitude to Mummy

Thank you Dear MUMMY
For your unconditional
Care and Love for ME!
~Steffi


Part B: My Painting
Description of my painting:

I used symbolism as my painting style, to portray my haiku in the form of art. Literally, it means "Through rain or shine, my Mother's love for me will never change" .
Firstly, the sun represents the good times; while the dark clouds and lightning symbolizes the bad times or difficult phases. The heart with 'ME' in it means that her love for me will never change no matter whether we are having a great time or a bad day or going through a difficult phase; her love for me and my family is unconditional.
So, all in all, I hope that the painting will bring across the message i want to deliver, that my Mother's love is unconditional and it will always be there whether or not she is with me.
I LOVE MY MOTHER SOOO MUCH!

Done by: Steffi Wong Wai Kay <27>
2e7
15 April 2010

Tribute to mother

sunshine

-The sun resembles her heart who shines through my path. The little figurines symbolise mom and I sitting at the hills and a shadow is casts on the ground that shapes like a heart. It symbolise mom's care for me and sharing the meanings of life through everyday scenerios.

Mom:

As the sun comes up in the morning
as the moonlight fades to grey
You hold my hand for my life journey
One which I shall remember forever long

Mom shares the meanings of life and love
From the everyday scenarios
In my heart which is invaluable
And cannot be trade for costs

Mom is the best confider I have
To listen with great patience;
So many memories we can now replay
from my birth to this very day.

As the sun comes up in the morning
as the moonlight fades to grey
The sun in your heart will continue
to shine in the future in all you do.

-siying

Done by Tan Si Ying [29] 2E7 (:

this symbolises the direction of jesus

this symbolises online shopping

Symbolism is the language of pictures, and thereby conveys information enormously more efficiently (in terms of sheer quantities) and also more selectively. Also its something like using pictures to potray something, in this case , it is our poem that we want to potray in the form of a painting.

this symbolises a working woman

information and pictures from google

-steffi

Collage ideas

Maybe we can use this for the family love of the Cassons?

Use this to represent the Banana House?

-Kemberly

Sources: google images

Characters

Introduction of characters:

•Bill & Eve are the parents of the Casson family. Both artists, they're quite different. Bill is a fashionable and somewhat snobbish artist who, from since Rose was born, has effectively lived apart from his family in a London flat, lately with a girlfriend.

Eve, who describes herself as a "tatty hippy", is scatterbrained but warm-hearted. She earns money by selling flattering portraits of pets and family members and by socially-oriented work such as teaching Young Offenders or decorating the hospital.

•Cadmium is the oldest Casson, a girl named after a colour like all of Bill & Eve's children. A sixth-former in the earlier stories, a university student later, she is pretty and intelligent but is unable to commit to marrying one of the several boyfriends she brings home to try out on her family. (Although she comes close).

•Saffron was adopted by the Cassons when her mother, Eve's twin sister Linda, died when Saffy was four.She's good-looking and very intelligent. She's between 14 and 16-years old.
Indigo, two years younger than Saffy, is the only boy among the four Casson siblings. He's smart but introspective at school, which leads to his being bullied.

Rose is the youngest Casson, four years younger than Indigo. Naturally artistic, but not inclined to reading, she's a normal, if gifted, 8-year-old girl, and resents not being allowed to do everything her older brother and sisters can do.

Sarah is Saffy's special friend. Largely wheelchair-bound after a childhood illness, she is bright and determined to let nothing get in her way. Her family is well-to-do, and her mother is the headmistress of the private school she attends.

Michael is Caddy's on-off boyfriend whom she can't quite marry, but neither can she quite let go of him. He's friendly and kind to all the Cassons and keeps up his hope of Caddy one day coming back to him.

Bill married Eve some 20 years before but some time after Rose's birth took himself off to London to his fashionable studio and has effectively remained there ever since, coming “home” for increasingly irregular weekend stays.

It takes the family a while to accept that this is what has happened, and it's true to say that Bill still loves his children and his wife. But definitely at a distance.

There's a nice scene in SA where Bill visualises his family with a rosy glow, picturing Indigo as a keen footballer and Saffy with a smile and without a nose stud. He even goes so far as to bring a football and a doll as presents for Indigo and Rose respectively, only to face the reality of his family's messy lives from which he escapes as soon as he can.

He has the charisma of a filmstar, and the taxi driver who takes him to the station thinks he's a great family man, but Bill heaves a sigh of relief once he's back on the train to London.

Eve, on the other hand, while she also hides from her family in the garden shed where she does most of her painting, is most definitely at home with the children. She is the kind of artist whom Bill patronises: she has displays of her work in the window of the local Building Society (and they sell out) and teaches Young Offenders to print T-Shirts.

Scatty and increasingly reliant on her children's ability to make up for her inadequacies, she's a lovable figure who never lets money matters worry her; she simply dives back into the shed and produces a glowing portrait of a family pet to make ends meet.

The friendships between Saffy & Sarah are beneficial in both directions.

The girls happily ignore each other's disadvantages (Saffy's poverty and Sarah's immobility) Sarah is the only child of a well-to-do couple and could easily have been spoilt.

Saffy suffers initially from a feeling of exclusion as she was adopted and her name doesn't appear on the family colour chart.

Research

Definitions of Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Rhyme, Rhythm

Simile: A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared. Example, 'she is like a rose'.

Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. Example, 'A mighty fortress is our God.'

Personification: A figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person.

Rhyme: A word agreeing with another in terminal sound. Example, mind and kind.

Rhythm: A patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form.


Source: dictionary.com

-Kemberly

Tips on painting acrylic

-Always control the amount of water use when mixing the acrylic paint. It will becomes watery and the colour will turn pale if too much water is added.

- Always apply a second coating over the first coat as the first coat of acrylic paint is pale.

- Control the amount of black colour when painting the hair. Always paint the black colour as last part as black will overun the brighter colours such as yellow, red and pink. Use black sparingly when outlining.

- Hold your breath when you are painting a stroke. This helps you to concentrate on your hand even better.

Resource is from personal experience. I will update more soon.
- Si Ying.

Research

The following topics which will be update soon:

1. Definitions of Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Rhyme, Rhythm.
2. Pictures and images of Symbolism in art, examples of Symbolism in paintings.
3. Pictures and images of Impressionism, examples of Impressionist paintings.
4. Steps and video tutorials of Acrylic painting tips.
5. Steps and video tutorials of Watercolour painting tips.
6. Inspiring examples or images for photo collage.
7. Inspiring images or video tutorials for construction of Sculpture.

Always give credit to whichever source you get your information from.

Timeline for our project:

Week 1-
5th April to 11th April. Exhibit #1
Task: Do research.

Week 2-
12th April to 18th April. Exhibit #1
Task: Work on your painting. Take a picture of your completed painting with a title and upload it with the same post as your poem. Put up the originals(poem and painting) neatly in the gallery(classroom corridor) for selection process.
The deadline is 16th April 2010.

Week 3-
19th April to 25th April. Exhibit #2
Task: Select a character from novel. Make a list of ideas which best represents the life of character.
Homework: Take pictures and print them out. Bring a mounting board for the next lesson.

Week 4-
26th April to 2nd May. Exhibit #2
Task 1:Arrange pictures and mount them on mounting board. Write a discription for the photo collage. Take a picture of it and upload to blog with discription.
Exhibit #3
Task 2:Choose a theme and draw out the sculpture on the paper given.
Deadline for both submission is 10th May 2010.


Wish us good luck,
Si Ying

BOOM!

Our first post will be about nothing in particular...Just glad we created this blog...Took a long time thinking of a name for our group, but phew it was done in the end, awesomeness!!

The beginning...

Group Members:



Kemberly Kay [10]


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Steffi Wong [27]


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Tan Si Ying [29]
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Vera Sng [31]