Olympic Artwork

Olympic art work

Here is a unique piece of artwork that I created along with support from Miss Hills and my classmates.

The first step that we had to make was to go on google and find an olympic athlete, after we found our athlete we had to print the picture off.  Then step two was to take a photo of yourself [and we needed our teacher Miss Hills to help us], Ms Hills asked us to look up to the roof like we had just won a gold medal.  Step three was to get an A3 paper and rule 4 cm in on the side and the same thing on the top.  We had to join these to make the border.  Step four was to come up with 2 similes and 2 metaphors for our poster and some speech bubbles and thought bubbles to put the similes and metaphors in.  

On the border of my artwork we had to have the olympic values and they are…

• Excellence
• Friendship
• Respect    

To make the tessellation we needed to measured a triangle with sides that had to be 3.8 cms, I even made hexagons!.  If you don’t know what a tessellation is it’s a repetitive pattern that can’t overlap or have gaps. Did you know that the only polygons that can tessellate by themselves are the hexagon, triangle and square, while the other polygons can’t really tesselate.  A polygon is the posh name for a shape,  a regular polygon is a shape with all equal sides well a irregular polygon is a shape with all unequal sides.

My challenge for you is:  

Can you find the triangles hidden in the hexagons?