Our focus for our Scottish topic was Scottish artists and designers. One of the most famous Scottish artists is Charles Rennie Mackintosh and we spent lots of time learning about his life and his art. We learned interesting facts about him such as:

• He was one of 11 children!
• His art was inspired by shapes, Japanese symbols and European art of the time
• His work gained popularity in the years after his death
• He designed some buildings in Glasgow such as the school of art, Willow Tea Rooms and House of an Art Lover

We designed our own Charles Rennie Mackintosh stained glass window art using black paper and tissue paper. We drew out the design first using white colouring pencils. Then we cut out coloured tissue paper shapes to fill in the picture and glued them down. We think they look really good!