Vehicles in the Style of Richard Scarry
Today was my last lesson in the art room before two weeks of school holidays. Karli’s class spent the day with me making super creative vehicles based on the illustrative style of Richard Scarry. The students branched out and used many different types of food as subjects for the vehicles, some even combining food items to create very unique vehicles. I was impressed at how well the students closely observed artworks to find details to use in their own artworks.
The class 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 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 cool colours to paint the background cityscapes. The brightly coloured vehicles pop out in contrast against the cool coloured cityscape creating the illusion of foreground and background. I had a great final day of the term with Karli’s creative class and am really proud of their finished artworks.
