Aurora lights art

Hi bloggers,

In Maori, we have been looking at Matariki and the southern lights/ aurora's, today we started art about the lights.

The name Aurora comes from the Latin word that means sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn. An Aurora is a natural light that appears in the sky, usually, the color is green but can sometimes be either blue or red. The natural light usually occurs in the 'aurora zone' near the arctic poles, the north, and the south.

Aurora is made by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within the atmosphere. Auroras are made with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and have plasma particles in it that gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields.

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

For our piece of art, we had to grab a black piece of paper and rip it into a mountain-like shape. After that, we had to get a paintbrush and splatter paint on it to make the stars, then after it drys we get chalk pastels and put it on the white paper that we stuck to our black paper. Once it was on the white paper we used our finger to brush it up. Finally, we had to add the 7 Matariki stars. Here is my art piece: