At the beginning of Semester 2, we began a project to make a hybrid mythical creature pinata. This project was based on the artist Roberto Benavidez. Roberto’s influence was from the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. The goal was to make an illuminated colourful Pinata to display at the transition illuminate festival.

The first step of the design process was to draw a variety of different hybrid mythical creatures. We used references from the internet to create these designs. This was one of my favourite parts of the process because it was very relaxing and we had a lot of creative freedom.

The second step was to finalise a creature design. Saya and I decided on a bunny, cross snake, and cross moose. Then we made 3 different coloured designs. The image on the right was our final colour design. we knew we wanted gold, and pastel colours so this was our final design.

After deciding on the colour scheme we created our design on paper. This was so that we could visualise our final design with the available paper. This was one of the final parts of the design stage.

After cutting, gluing, and painting our pinata was finally done. In my opinion, our final product, although not our original plan, turned out very nice.

From the beginning of making these pinatas, our design changed many times. From the basic shape of the pinata, our design, and the colour scheme. We used problem-solving to create our final product. When the coloured paper we needed ran out, we used a different colour scheme on each side, and when our design didn’t work we edited it to be successful. Through these ideas and challenges, we developed our design.

Our collaboration during this project was very successful in my opinion. Saya and I worked together very well and we completed this project very efficiently and met our targets throughout the project. We agreed on most things, and our strengths worked well together. Where Saya was better at the drawing side, I was better at the creating side. We collaborated very well.

One of the most time-consuming parts so the project was painting. This was because you could only paint one side of the pinata per lesson. In total it took Saya and me about 5 lessons to prime with gesso and paint the base colour. But this was worth it to get an even layer of paint on our pinata.

Overall I used many capabilities throughout this visual art project to be as successful as possible. Collaboration, Problem-solving, Organisation, Inquisitivity, & creativity was used a lot when making our pinata.

The final goal of this project was to present at the illuminated festival. Our job in the festival was the carry our lit-up pinatas around the school leading the parents to each performance destination. The festival ran pretty smoothly and I enjoyed seeing what the others had worked on for the past semester. To improve next time I noticed that we didn’t have a very clear idea of where we were going and who to follow. Although we rehearsed when it came to the actual time it seemed very messy and uncoordinated. Overall the festival was very successful and a lot of fun.