WHALES OFF HAWAII
Jonathan (creator of GollyGee Blocks - and also my son and business associate) sent me a link from his new used iPhone (I'm jealous) that talked about Whale watching off the coast of Hawaii. In the picture I grabbed using Image Well there is a large Humpback leaping from the sea. Great shot Larry!
I've tried by hand at recreating the image using GollyGee Blocks®. This is also another great example of problem solving for students - breaking down the picture into basic shapes and putting them together to make a picture. By the way, in the event I haven't said this in previous posts, the whole idea of GollyGee Blocks® is to help young students with critical thinking, problem solving and spatial reasoning.
The whale body is a scaled cylinder with a stacked and stretched dome as the head. Coloring (black on white) is done by copying the body and scaling slightly smaller. Then place on original body and put on colors. The whale fins are done using the airplane wings in the objects menu. The whale body is positioned using the tilt tool. I also rotated the building plane in two directions to get a horizontal horizon.