Self-portrait

For Art we had to draw a self-portrait in the style of Van Gogh. And then we had to make a letter to a friend for english about our self-portrait. This is the letter:

Dear Wouter,

I’m writing you because I had to make self-portraits for our Art class. For the assignment we had to paint the self-portraits in the style of Van Gogh. With this assignment we have to learn to use colours to express a emotion.

At the first one, which is happy, I used the colours orange, red and yellow for the background because they are bright colours and they are complementary colours, which means they are opposite of each other. And the brushstrokes are to all the sides. And for the clothing I used the colours blue and green, which are totally different from the background because it had to. At the face I just used quite normal colours but the mouth went a bit wrong. You can see he is happy because his eyes are bigger then when he is sad.

At the second one, which is sad ,I used the colours blue and green for the background because they are dark and sad colours and they are also complimentary. At this drawning, the brushstrokes are also to all sides. For these clothes I used the colours red, orange and yellow because they are opposite to the background. Over here, I also used quite normal colours for the face and at the right it looks a bit like the is crying. But when I started painting the face, I forgot that I had to use the style of Van Gogh so I didn’t use stripes.

But I like the sad one more than the happy one because the mouth has failed with the happy one. Also, the form of the head of the happy one is a bit disformed compared with the sad one. Also the shadow of the happy one is unsuccesful.

My final mark for the drawning was a 6.5. I think it would be a better mark if the happy one wasn’t unsuccesful.

Do you have done something interest? For instance for Art? I’d like to hear about that.

Write back soon,

Koen

Cantebury

With school, we have been to Cantebury. It was really nice but the bus journey was a bit long (the one from school to Calais). On the ferry it was also nice. I was in a group with Mr. De Baets, Lorenzo, Job, Laurens, Jens Peter, Sven, Demi and Nayra. First we went to the Cathedral, it was very beautiful and very big. If you saw it on the side we saw it, it looked much smaller. After the Cathedral we went through Cantebury. We had to search for old windows and other old things. We went to the Cantebury Museum where we had to think of an assignment for the next year. We made photo's from things in the museum which the next years group has to make a big photo of. But we were the only group that had been in that museum.
After that, we went to the Cantebury Tales Museum. Over there we got an audiotour. We had to walk through the museum and heared a Tale at some places.
What I thought from Cantebury was that it is very big, old, beautiful and nice.