Southern Lights Artwork

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Today we have been learning about the southern lights, and we decided made some art on them.

The name 'Aurora' comes from the Latin word for sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn. Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields.

As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.

Here are the steps to make the southern lights artwork.

1. Hold your plain A4 paper landscape and rip a mountain like shape across it. This will be used to mask off the hills. Mask this onto the bottom of your black piece of paper with tape.

2.  Then dip your toothbrush into some of the white acrylic paint, and then run your fingers through the bristles of the toothbrush to flick paint over your black piece of paper. This will create the background stars.

3.  While the stars are drying, use your ripped card and colour the top ripped edge of it in with your different coloured pastels. Make sure you change the colour every few centimetres.

4.  When the paint is dry, place the chalked paper onto your black paper. Now run your finger through the chalk upwards towards the stars. This should smudge the coloured chalk from the plain paper onto your picture.

5.  Mix a small amount of yellow and white together. Make sure you use more white than yellow, you want it to only have a tint of yellow in it.  Using your tooth pick or the end of a paint brush dot in the Matariki constellation.

Here is my final product,enjoy.

Have you seen the southern lights?See you next time.Bye.