We looked at icons that told the Easter story. The pictures all had a similar style. We noticed that:

• some of the people had a gold circle around their head (Mr Swallow explained this represented their halo)
• the pictures had rich, strong colours
• the people tended to always look to the side
• the scene in the paining wasn’t “real” it had other elements from later in the story in it.  Mr Swallow explained that the scene was a representation of lots of elements or ideas from the story

we decided to use this style to create our own representation of a scene from the Easter story.