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  James Rizzi was an American Artist who brought his portraits and cityscapes to life using paint, printing and 3D sculpting. His work was was brightly colored, busy and often included comic elements such as funny faces and smiling skyscrapers! 🤪  Today the Tigers have taken on the challenge of recreating a piece of James Rizzi’s artwork. We followed a drawing tutorial to help us get the initial shapes before adding our own stamps by creating some silly faces and features as well as plenty of bright colors.

Today, the Tigers have begun their new art project Street View. Firstly we have identified similarities and differences between different pieces of street artwork, discussing composition and colour using our observations and artistic vocabulary. To develop our observations further we chose our favourite piece of artwork to copy details of to create our own sketches. 

On Wednesday afternoon, Tigers had a puppet-making workshop with the Babbling Vagabonds. They looked at making puppets that would help them to tell the story that they created in their morning worshop. We revisited vocabulary from our Science unit on materials; discussing the words 'transparent' and 'opaque'. We talked about how the shadows are made, thinking about light travelling in straight lines.  The children did a wonderful job of drawing and cutting out their puppets then practising putting them in front of the torch to make a shadow. We looked at how the distance of the puppet from the torch affected the size of the shadow.