Thank you all for getting involved in this week's 'Feathered Friends' challenge. We've had a great flock of work fly in... tropical birds, British birds, Native American Thunderbirds, cartoon birds, mythical birds and nocturnal birds - all done in a variety of ways - from paint, colouring pencil and oil pastel to collage, printing and 3D.
We are sure that you will agree they are all a feathery feast for the eyes!
Please click below to enter the exhibition (feel free to dance along as you watch!). Then scroll down to find out more about our artists 'beaktastic' creations.
Ruibo - Magpie
Ruibo starts our exhibition this week with an excellent drawing of a toucan, showcasing his shading in colouring pencil. The direction of his colouring makes his toucan look feathery - a very effective technique.
What is the correct name for the toucan's 'beak'?
Yousuf - Kittiwake
Yousuf has created two very different, amazing pieces of art this week. The first one is a drawing of a bird in a Native American style. He has used both shapes and patterns effectively.
His second picture is a line drawing of a bird very much in keeping with the style of Picasso's dove drawings.
What does a dove often represent?
Klaudia - Kittiwake
Klaudia's exceptionally cute furry bird is facing forward as if it is looking for something. What do you think that might be?
She has used her colouring pencils around the outline of her bird really efectively to make it look as though it is a young bird with downy feathers.
Kio - Kestrel
Kio has created his own fantastic interpretation of a Native American Thunderbird. The Native American people believed that storms were caused by enormous birds in the sky.
Can you see the electric charges all around its body and the lightning coming from its eyes?
Rayyan - Year 1
Rayyan has been very busy creating his own fabulous flock of birds this week. He started by doing some practice drawings before going on to create and colour his hummingbird picture. He then moved on to creating collage and 3D birds. The whole flock are displayed in his last picture.
Would you find all these birds living in the same place? How do you know this?
Yvette - Friend of MG
Yvette has used water colours to create this rather regal looking peacock. She has used different techniques for each part of her painting.
Can you see and explain the differences between these techniques?
Max - Waxwing
Max has blended soft pastels in this very effective picture of a tropical bird. He has positioned the bird in the bottom left-hand corner, looking forwards which leads your eye to the rest of the picture, creating a sense of mystery..... What do you think it might be looking for?
Elizaveta - Kingfisher
This week Elizaveta has drawn a fabulous flamingo using shape, colour and pattern extremely effectively. She has really taken her time to colour her picture carefully before outlining it with a thin black pen.
Can you see how she has made the water look like it is moving?
Ms Harding
Ms Harding has used two very different techniques for her bird pictures. The first is in water colours with some added natural leaves, which she then took a photo of and added some effects.
The second is a lino print. She cheated here as this was done in November last year - not this week! It was the design for her Christmas cards.
Pip - Moorhen
Pip has created a phenomenal phoenix this week, effectively using the style of Native American stencil art. The phoenix is flying upwards, as we often say 'The phoenix has risen...'
What has the phoenix risen from?
Mabel - Kinglet
This week Mabel has created a bright, colourful, joyful Native Amercian style bird drawing. She has used felt pens to carefully colour in her patterned bird. She has looked up the Native American word for rainbow as well.
Can you find out the Native American words for sky and bird?
Yaseen - Year 1
Yaseen practised drawing a variety of birds before creating a wonderful oil pastel picture of a parrot. He then went on to create some mixed media birds adding feathers and lolly sticks to his initial drawings. Finally he made a 3D owl. As you can see from the final picture he has used so many different techniques and materials to produce a fantastic flock of bird art.
Clarabelle - Magpie
Clarabelle created some cute, colourful, cartoon birds. She has scratched out a waxy coating to reveal the bright rainbow colours beneath which works very effectively. She has used 'v' shapes to build up the branches on her tree.
Can you see her use of movement lines? What is their effect?
Rayan - Chaffinch
This week Rayan has drawn a parrot in flight showing off its splendid wing span. His use of added lines has effectively shown its wings and tail feathers. He has coloured it carefully in three special colours.
Red, yellow and blue are given a special name - what is it? Why are they so important in art?
Jhael - Kittiwake
This week Jhael has used colouring pencils to create this truly amazing peacock. She has shaded and blended the colours in her drawing carefully, capturing all the patterns and the delicate nature of the feathers. By positioning the body of the peacock in the centre of the page your eyes are then drawn to the edges by the direction of the tail feathers.
Which country has the peacock as its national bird?
Rose
Rose has created two very different pieces of amazing art this week. For her first piece of art, she achieved the effect of delicate, wispy feathers by using pastels on black paper. Her second piece of art is a bold bright felt pen picture of a parrot.
Which technique do you prefer and why?
Connie - Buzzard
This week Connie chose to paint a feathered friend that is a character from a book called 'A Bit Lost'. It is a brilliant cartoon painting really showing the little character looking lost with all the emotion in its eyes. Great work.
Can you name any other bird characters in books?
Ayla - Buzzard
Ayla's mum then helped her draw the outline of some birds using candle wax which Ayla then painted over using food colouring to achieve a very effective wax resist picture.
Finally she drew a cute cartoon bird family, colouring them in using felt tip pens. She also sent in a photograph of a pigeon that spends a lot of time in her garden!
RuiXuan - Grouse
RuiXuan has created an excellent line drawing of a bird on a branch, using colouring pencils and felt pens. He has used a black felt pen to show the feather patterns particularly effectively. By placing the bird's beak in the top right hand corner of the page, this leads your eye up so you wonder what the bird is looking at.
What do you think the bird could be looking at?
Senna - Magpie
Senna has drawn a brilliant, bold bird in a Native American style as well as a magpie, her class bird. She has made her Native American bird look as though it is flying downwards, full of purpose. What do you think it is planning to do?
If you look at the eye of Senna's magpie, you can see she has used some reflection effectively. Magpies like shiny objects and this one looks like it has just spotted something!
Aleeza - Kingfisher
Aleeza has drawn a cute little cartoon bird on top of a bird house. She has taken time and care with her felt pen colouring to achieve this bright, bold effect. She has even managed to get some of her signature hearts in the picture!
What song do you think the bird could be singing?
Aisha - Chiffchaff
Aisha has obviously been inspired by her current topic 'Australia' and in particular Aboriginal art as she has used the dot technique to create her brilliant bird flying up into the night sky. Having drawn her bird, she has cut it out carefully and stuck it onto her nocturnal background.
Faizan - Kittiwake
Faizan has created a noble, nocturnal bird - an owl very much in the style of Denise Fiedler. Just like her, he has used newspaper and then painted over it with a brown wash. He has stuck the newspaper bird on to black paper, then added a branch, stars and the moon to complete this effective nocturnal scene.
What can an owl do with its head that humans cannot?
Ms Harris
We thought you might also like to see her completed 'diamond art' dog picture that she started a few weeks ago.
It has certainly been a fabulously feathery, week of art and we have so enjoyed seeing all your amazing pieces of work.
Well done everyone!
Just before we go, here is a link to a competition that some of you talented bunch might be interested in entering.
Each year the RSPB organise a nature inspired art competition - you've already created some great nature based art (Back To Nature & Feathered Friends in particular). You could enter something you've already done for Art Club or else you could create something brand new. All the details can be found here:
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