Sunny but Cold

A wonderful, sunny (but cold) winter day, a melting snowman lays in the backyard...

Me Singing at the Vancouver X-mas Factor Singing Competition!!!

This me singing at the semi-final round of the Downtown Vancouver X-mas Factor Singing Competition!!!
I moved on to the final round, but i didn't get the grand prize. But it was so much fun!

Painted Seashell

I love going to the beach! You can find so many different seashells!I found this seashell at Crescent Beach in Whiterock, BC. But it was so plain and white, so i just had to add a splash of colour to it!

Magazine Sketch

      This is something that we did in art class. You got to pick a magazine photocopy that was cut in two. You picked one half that you glue down on a piece of paper and one half you draw on that piece of paper. You basically had to replicate the other half of the magazine cover onto the paper. But, you couldn't use anything but a pencil and an eraser.

      There are little techniques that I used like:
- Shading ( giving it texture by drawing many lines)
- Smudging ( rubbing pencil shavings onto the paper)
- Sketching ( not connecting a line completely. drawing many lines to form a shape)
- Colouring darkly
- Colouring lightly
-Taking my time!!!!!! ( also looking at every detail)

Looks nice, doesn't it?

Flower Sketch

       This is a drawing that I did of a flower. It was a rainy day when I did this. I couldn't ride my bike, couldn't go to the park, I couldn't do anything outside. So I decided to draw. But then guess what? I couldn't think of anything to draw! So I looked everywhere. I stopped looking when out the window, I saw a single flower in my backyard. It was a beautiful bright pink rose with petals that looked as soft as feathers. A lime green stem with five leafs was swaying in the wet breeze.

        I didn't exactly draw that flower but I did draw a rose! It was a different kind of rose that probably doesn't and won't ever exist in real life, but hey! That's the fun of art! Imagination!                

The Popsicle Stick Boat

This is a very unique project that I did for school. For our Social Studies final project, we had to look up explorers and do a project on them. So I looked up John Cabot and focused on his use of transportation. When I looked on the computer, I found out how his boat looked.

I tried to replicate it a well as I could. I didn't do the sails . But I did the Crow's Nest and the two decks. With just popsicle sticks and some hot glue, I think I did a pretty good job!

The actual process of making it was pretty simple. All I had to do was layer the edges one on top of the other for the outer frame. For the deck, I glued the thin edges of the sticks together. The Crow's Nest was the hardest to do. It took a lot of breaking the popsicle sticks in half and tons of glue. But it was so much fun!!!!!

The Incredible Art Test!

I made a quiz for you to find out if your an art know it all. This quiz contains trivia about different artzy stuff. If you want to take this test, click here!

Funny Comic

              Making comics is something that I like to do in my spare time. This is the first comic I ever made. It's sort of an advice collum/comic that gives you advice and funny pictures to go with it! Like you should always cover your mouth when you sneeze and find "mature" ways to deal with a situation. Yup. "MATURE" ......... Anyways, I hope you like it!

Picture Perfect Parrot!

             I drew this parrot in the fourth grade. We had some free time and I thought, "What to do.... what to do.... what, to, do?" I was looking around the room for something to, well, do! I looked here and there. There and here. And then I saw our wallpaper for the classroom had a parrot on it. So I thought, "Hey! Why don't I draw a parrot?" I took out my drawing book and my pencil and started drawing. I erased so much that my eraser had almost run out, all because of one picture! But, I have to say, all of that erasing sure made a picture perfect parrot!

My Delicious Recipies! (Part I)

            Are you hungry? Are you bored of looking up no good recipies in a cook book? Do you want food that is delicious and easy to make? Well you've come to the right place my friend. Because I have invented recipies that are delicious and easy to make. Welcome to Anika V.'s Recipie Page!

                But beware because:

                    Ok. Let's first start with a few drinks. One of my favorite things to drink on a hot, sunny, summer afternoon is a cold glass of fruit punch. What you need is:

   -A glass
   -Soda water
   -Your favorite citric juice
   -A few ice cubes
   -Some cut fruit

 1. Mix in your glass the soda water and juice
 2. Cut your fruits into bit-size pieces and cut a small slit in the bottom of each one. Stick the fruits all around the rim of the glass until you have made a full round.
 3. Take out a straw and put in glass.
 4. Put in the ice cubes
      Enjoy!

               Another drink I like is a nice, vanilla milkshake. The ingredients are:

   - Some milk
   - Some vanilla icecream
   -One tsp of vanilla extract
   - Chocolate shavings

                1. Take out your blender and blend up the vanilla icecream.
                2. Taste. If needed add milk and/or vanilla extract.
                3. After you have finished the mixture, pour into glass.
                4. Add a straw.
                5. Sprinkle the chocolate shavings ontop.
                     Enjoy!

       Let's move on to a dessert.

Marshmallow surprise is one that I thought of after playing in the snow because I wanted to have hot chocolate. So I took out the chocolate mix and the marshmallows and I thought, "What would marshmallows taste like baked?" So here they are. These are the ingridients:

              -Large marshmallows
              -Brown sugar
              -1 tblsp of butter


                        1. Preheat the oven at 350 degrees F for ten mins.
                        2. Take out two baking pans and put a sheet of tinfoil on each one.
                        3. Cover the foil for each one with a thin layer of butter
                        4. Cover each buttered pan with marshmallows. Make sure that they are at least 2cm away                           
                            from the edge of each pan.
                        5. Place each pan in the center of each oven rack and set the time for 2mins.


       Caramel Candy
       (Make this during step 3 for the marshmallows) :

          1. Melt the butter in the oven until it turns to liquid.
          2. In a small bowl, mix the butter with 4 tblsp of brown sugar
          3. Put the butter and sugar mixture on a frying pan and fry until mildly-soft.
          4. Once the marshmallows are out of the oven and have formed two large sheets, place the caramel 
          candy onto one of the sheets. Lay the other sheet on top.
          5. Cut into squares.
              Enjoy!

My Really Random Poem

        I'm kind of bored so I am going to write poem!

There once was a birdy who lived in a nest

Living with him, there was a small pest

The birdy got really angry at him

So he tried to throw him into the trash bin


The birdy was  not at all very wise

He did not realize that the pest flies

The birdy tried to swat him down

But then the pest took his crown


All of a sudden the birdy got scared

He thought that he actually might be impaired

Maybe it's 'cause of his mean older brother

But he realized that this pest was his mother

An Absolutely Beautiful Fall Day

This picture was taken when me, my mom, and my dad went out to admire the fall colours. We were going down the street when we saw this beautiful tree. So, we stopped to take a picture. But instead of taking the tree, I took the sun. It looks so pretty! I showed my dad the picture. "How did you get that picture so well?" he asked me. "Um... natural instincts?" I said. Then I laughed. Then we moved on and went to the park down our street. And when we got there, it was so beautiful!

Greetings From London!

        Ya, so it's me again. This time I will show you guys another project that I did at school in my 5th grade year. But first, know this: I went to India and London over summer, 2011. That's all you need to know for now. :)

  

Our assignment was to make a postcard from were we have gone or done over the summer. So I did my postcard from London. Above is the picture side and below is the writing side.

Now, if you want to know what the post card says, read this next paragraph. If you don't, skip it and go down to the paragraph after it.

        This is what my postcard says:

   Dear Mrs. (Name Classified),

London was so amazing! The weather was just like Vancouver! Cloudy and wet. But we didn't mind. We saw so many different things like The London Eye, Big Ben, The Tower of London, and The London Bridge! We even went on a London tour bus. I saw so many different buildings. Oh the structures were magnificent! Can't wait to come back and share the pictures with you!

                     Your Student,

                       Anika

       Now, this is what the picture and writing look like together:

                Aren't they just Beautiful?!

            Well that is my postcard. Enjoy!

Canada's Rivers at Risk

       Ugh! More homework? Come on! Well, I guess I can tell you about it. So guess what? More social studies!!! OK. So, in socials, we were learning about mapping. You know, how to make and read maps. We got this map of Canada and there were instructions on what to do on the map. There was some easy stuff like colour this province this colour and that province that colour. But there were a little more harder stuff like locate this river and were is this lake found and stuff like that. Also, we had to complete our map with any kind of title, frame, and compass. Oh ya! We also had to out line all pieces of land in light blue because it shows that the piece of land is surrounded by ocean water. Man! This was going to be alot of work.

        So, after I coloured it and all and outlined it and located the rivers and lakes, then came the frame, compass, and title. I named this "Canada's Rivers at Risk" because on the instructions page, that was the title. So, I thought that it made the most sense. My frame was "SAVE THE RIVERS!" and then a picture of a river each time I wrote that. And I made my compass show N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW. It's also green and red.

        The result of all this hard work is an amazing thing, really. I hope you like it!!!

   

My Social Studies Title Page!!!!!

         Now, first things first. This amazing piece of art started when my 5th grade teacher started teaching us about our first unit in social studies. So, you know, we read about blah blah this, blah blah that. Then finally, she said, "Boys and girls, for homework tonight we will do our social studies title page to start our unit in social studies. Please have it completed and on my desk first thing tommorow morning!" Some people were groaning and saying, "Do we have to?" But, as you know, I love art, so I was pretty excited.

          So, after school ended that day and me and my mom got home, first thing I did after off course eating a snack was take out all my supplies to do my homework. I got out all my pencils and erasers. Markers and pencil crayons. And last but not least, my thin, black, sharpie. Then I got to work! I started sketching here and there. Erasing every once in a while. Then, when I knew everything was perfect, I started to colour. And my teacher didn't just let us shade in everything all light. Oh no. She made us colour so hard that by the time we were done, we couldn't move our hands! But it was definetly worth it. My teacher also made us outline everything in a thin, black, sharpie. But I really didn't mind all that much because the results were outstanding!
(As you can see in the picture above.) Then, after colouring the background, I was finally finished!

           So, as you can see, all this hard work really paid off. I hope you enjoy my fabulous social studies title page!!!!!!!!!!

         

The California Dream House

It was a wonderful, sunny day in Palm Springs, California. Today was moving day for the Blue family. Mrs. Katrina Blue and Mr. Chris Blue were carrying their beautiful orange, feathered mattress into the trunk of their Volkswagen Punch Buggy whole their children, Carter and Cary were taking their toys and dog into the car. And little Jonathan didn't want to go. That's why he's saying "Bye!"

After they finished packing, they were off to their new home. No. 87, Willow Brook Ave. It's a good thing they managed to get Jonathan into the car, because was so exited to see his new home. So they zoomed off to see the wonderful new house they bought."I'm soooooo exited!" Jonathan squealed.

"Are we there yet?" Carter and Cary kept asking their mother. "Almost," she kept saying. Then, finally, they reached their new home. "It's so big!" exclaimed Mr. Blue. Then he started pointing at it and making funny faces. All the children started laughing so hard. Especially little Jonathan because he peed right in his pants!

The family finally stepped out of their car onto that gray, slick, California concreat. Carter and his dog, Scruffy, sprinted to the door. But when they got there, it wouldn't open. "It's locked!" yelled Carter. "I got the giant key," Cary spoke back. She was right. It was one really big key! After they opened the door, Mr. and Mrs. Blue loaded the mattress into their home. And that was the start to their California Dream House!

One Sunny, Great Day for Hiking

The birds were singing on the top of Sunshine hill. It was one sunny, great day. One sunny, great day for hiking! Ellie and Jeremiah were pondering about where to set up a campsite for the day after their exhausting hike up the rocky, steep hill. Finally, Ellie found the perfect spot. It was grassy and green, and shaded by a big tree. "Let's set up here!" said Ellie, trying to catch here breath.

And so it was decided. The two friends helped each other put down their things with a "thump!" and a "plop!" "Can you get out the tent, Jeremiah?" asked Ellie. " Sure! I'd be happy to!" Jeremiah answered back. Then he grabbed the tent out of the blue backpack he had. This tent was no ordinary tent, though. Because it was water proof, fire resistant, and the material was un-breakable!

By the time Ellie was done putting down her things, Jeremiah was almost done the tent! Then, with one last pull from both of them, the tent was up! "I can't wait to sleep in this thing tonight!" Ellie squealed. "Ya..." said Jeremiah. Then they adjusted the tent. And to make sure no bears came in, they zipped it shut!

The tent was set up, it was dusk, and the two still hadn't eaten anything yet! "I'm starving!" said Jeremiah. "Me too," said Ellie. So they took out their grill, grilled up some grubs, and had one fabulous dinner. The hills were glowing from the now orange sun. Then it set into the distance, and the stars woke up and started to shine...