Veggie Vehicles in the Style of Richard Scarry

Lizzie’s class visited the art room today to learn how to observe artworks closely and use the details they find in their own work. They created crazy, funny vehicles made from vegetables (and other foods) based on the illustrative style of Richard Scarry.

The class looked at the book ‘Cars, Trucks and Things that Go,’ watched a short clip and studied printed images of the vehicles in Busytown by Richard Scarry. They carefully sketched different representations of parts of vehicles, such as wheel arches, mirrors, hub caps, wheels, number plates, windows and windscreens. Using their study drawings the students created thumbnail sketches of possible vegetable vehicles, choosing their favourite one to recreate as a final drawing.

The students painted their veggie vehicles using watercolour paints, paying careful attention to blending their paints and creating intensity of colour. They used a limited colour palette of hot or cool coloured pastels to create a spiralling vortex as a background. I love the finished pieces, they are full of vibrant colour and personality.