Macandrew Bay School pupils have been making art so they can learn more about the subject from local professional artists.
The children completed a large painting yesterday which will be the centrepiece of the Peninsula Art and Craft Auction on Thursday evening.
All 160 pupils at the school contributed to the acrylic work; from the youngest to the oldest.
''Every two years we have the auction and then use the money to fund artist visits to the school for the next two years. So we use the arts to fund the arts,'' Macandrew Bay School principal Bernadette Newlands said yesterday.
''We get two or three local artists coming to the school to teach and the pupils get to extend their art practice.''
The pupils created the painting of Macandrew Bay over the past month, under the tutelage of peninsula artist Erin Anson.
''We're looking at doing the design on greeting cards, so all the children's parents can have a copy of the painting,'' Mrs Anson said. The auction, in the Guthrie Pavilion, Andersons Bay, will include more than 90 works.
