SAISA Basketball and Hope for Kids

March 25th, 2015:

I have continued to progress in my basketball skills through SAISA training with all the different layups, cuts, screens, defensive and offensive tactics we practised. Our team was able to test what we've learnt through the matches we played with different schools every Friday such as Gateway and a school from the Maldives. The positions I usually play on the court are the two wings or posts. I definitely have improved in terms of tactics during games when it comes to passing or cutting inside the key to retrieve the ball or getting the rebound. 

In Hope for Kids we have recently been connecting beads with the children, which is an activity they have been enjoying a lot recently. I personally think this activity was a great idea since it gives the chance for the children to use their creativity in an easy way. 

The activity helped both us and the children to be equally engaged as we taught them how to make the beads and they were able to show what they had learnt afterwards.  
           

Print Making Progress

March 9th, 2015:

I am well into my second piece I am going to create in printmaking arts. I enjoy this art style because it does give me the opportunity to produce creative and unique images. Here is a step by step to show how create my printing pieces:

Here is the logo for 'DC Shoes' which is my second image I will attempt to print. I chose this image because I like the design of the logo and I think it would be interesting for the image to be printed in a different colour (e.g. red) to appear more appealing and abstract.



The next step is to place tracing paper over the original image and use an etching utensil to trace out the shape of the image. The etching utensil has a sharp and pointed blade which is used to carefully trace and cut through the tracing paper. As you can see from the picture to the left, I have traced the outer shape of the 'DC Shoes' logo.


Here is a picture of the traced out part of the logo, but the actual piece of tracing that will be used is the original piece of tracing paper that has the shape of the selected image traced out (second picture). This is because a selected paint colour can easily be go through the traced out shape of the image and be printed on to a piece pressed against the other side of the tracing paper.    

Here is a picture of my first completed printed image, Levi from the anime 'Attack on Titan'. I've so far had fun with printmaking as it doesn't require any advanced sketching art skills to portray and represent an image. I've learnt that it is an activity that anyone is able to do. It's even given me a new perspective of what one can do and create with art.