Where Art and Literature Meet

A few weeks ago while we were visiting Mrs. Schnare's class blog we noticed  their beautiful water colour scarecrows. We were so inspired by them we decided to try doing the same thing.  She was kind enough to lend us the book, The Lonely Scarecrow to read.  We also read two other books about scarecrow.  While we were reading we  looked closely at the way the illustrators painted the pictures of the scarecrows and how they made the fields look real.

Once we had finished reading we were ready and keen to draw and paint our own versions of scarecrows. We did a draft first to practice getting the proportion right.  We wanted our scarecrows to appear closer to the viewer so we drew them the biggest and we drew them first.  Then we added the background details. Here is a sneak peek of two of the drafts!

 Here is the painted version of the same scarecrows.  We are so proud of the way they turned out!

Thank you Mrs. Schnare and her class for inspiring us!

Have you ever tried to paint like illustrators from books?  
We will be posting more of our scarecrows on our individual blogs next week! Check there in the coming weeks to see more!