Kia ora my name is Soni and I am a year 8 student at Paihia school. A while ago I made a visual pepeha and I’m going to explain how we made them. First we had to write our pepeha on a piece of paper and do a line drawing on top for an outline, after that we got it checked by a teacher and they gave us a square piece of paper. We had to write our Maunga on one square piece of paper, our Awa on another piece.Then once we had shown it to the teacher we had to go over it with sharpie and when we were finished it, we got watercolours and practised blending the water colours trying to fade it dark to light. Whaea Ronnie told us that colours like red, orange and yellow are hot colours and colours like blue and green are cold colours. Then once we were able to blend it properly we were able to do it on our good copy. So once we were finished and it was dry we could get a long black piece of paper and glue our pepeha on, once we had glued it on we had to cut out a picture ourselves and glue it at the bottom. Once it was done we hanged it up on a piece of string connected to both of the walls in our classroom.
Have you ever created pepeha art?
this is the making