Painting Seascapes

Today we painted seascapes. With the Volvo Ocean Race in Galway, we have been learning about sailing and how the crew have been surviving travelling over the seas of the world.

We painted the ocean a darker blue than the sky.

Our paintings helped us to imagine what difficulties the crew went through.

We used potatoes to print the sails of the boats in different sizes. We used quarter segments of potatoes and then printed with the colour we wanted our sails to be.

We blended the colours together carefully.

Some of us made sailing pictures using lollipop sticks and added sails using different coloured paper.

We also used the oil pastels to shade in the seascape.

We used these potatoes to print our sailing boats onto our seascape.

A job well done and a very busy afternoon!