Veggie Vehicles in the Style of Richard Scarry

Today is was Jarryd’s class’ turn to visit the art room to create crazy, imaginative vegetable vehicles based on the illustrative style of Richard Scarry.  The students learnt how to observe artworks closely and use the details they found in their own drawings.

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 cool colours to paint the background cityscapes. The brightly coloured veggie vehicles pop out in contrast against the cool coloured cityscape creating the illusion of foreground and background. I love the humour and creativity in the students’ finished artworks, I hope you do too.