Our art this week was inspired by Author and illustrator Catherine Rayner and her sweet story about a funny dog called Smelly Louie. In this story, Louie the dog travels around the neighbourhood trying to recreate his signature smell after having to have a bath (the worst). Catherine Rayner uses watercolours and different techniques that really showcase the splatters and sensations of texture in her books. You can almost smell and feel the water drops, bugs, and clouds in her pictures. We tried to recreate this style with our watercolour giraffes. 

watercolour paint, sharpie

Our courtyard garden is bursting with life after a summer of growing! We were amazed to see just how tall our sunflowers have grown. Some of them were reaching all the way to the roof!

Today we practiced 'looking and sketching like scientists, noticing all of the details in the plants and insects in the garden. In art, we connected our thinking to the story of the Tiny Seed, by Eric Carle, and his signature art style of painted paper and collage. 

Our class artists painted and scratched paper, then tore it up to create the irregular petals on their sunflowers. Using paint and sunflower seeds, they worked to arrange and add details to give their sunflowers lots of interest and character.

Mixed paper, tempera paint, paint sticks, sunflower seeds