Maui and the Sun Artwork

In Room 6 we were reading a few special books about Maui and the sun.

In this story, Maui was trying to slow the sun down as there wasn't enough time in the day to get all his chores done.  The sun was going too fast!  Maui made ropes out of flax and said a special karakia so they would be strong and used them to catch the sun.  Maui told the sun it needed to go slower and the sun said ,"Okay".

Some of our favourite parts of creating our artwork were:

• Using the cotton buds to dye our paper
• Trying our hardest to draw our pictures
• Designing our own drawings
• Creating our drawings

Some of the most challenging parts of creating our suns were:

• Drawing the sun with the special lines for its face
• Creating the designs with the rays so that it looked similar to the drawings in the book
• Trying to stay inside the lines with the dye
• Dyeing them so that there was no peekaboo white (no white spots showing)
• Waiting for one colour to dry before we did the next one.  (If we didn't wait for it to dry it dripped into the other colours).
• Creating the mouth of the sun because it was a special shape
• Being patient and waiting to be able to add each colour one by one.  We really wanted to finish!

Some of the things we think we could do to make our artwork even better are:

• create some rainbow-coloured artwork with the same technique
• try to get the designs just like the Māori designs in the book
• put some more designs and detail in what we did
• instead of colouring it in we could put some other things on to make it more interesting
• make some rainbows with some pink and add some bees to it too!

Check out our artwork in the slides below: