Skype!

We have been looking forward to today all week! At the beginning of the week, we found a Matariki painting by Ira Mitchell-Kirk.  Ira is an artist who lives in Christchurch.  She offered to answer some of our questions on skype.  We emailed our questions to her and then today, she skyped us and talked to us about her paintings and how we can be great artists ourselves.  It was so exciting to see Ira and hear her talking about our questions.  We have begun our own 'sprinkling stars' paintings - Ira can't wait to see how they turn out!

Here are Ira's website and blog if you want to have a look at her paintings:

http://www.iramitchell-kirk.com/

http://www.iramitchell-kirk.com/blog.html

We all sat beautifully whilst we listened carefully to Ira.

Ira showed us how to paint stars.  This is her current painting of a cat visiting London.....we can't wait to see how it turns out!