Art Drawing Feathers/class Dream Catcher, black pen patterned, oil pastel showing hopes and dreams

This powerpoint supports learning about different drawing techniques in the classroom and using a Feather as a topic.

Feathers are not such difficult objects to draw and students can use this to explore a variety of techniques.

Student draw the feather, in pen, pencil, oil pastel and wax and crayon. Students also do an artist study and present the work of an artist who uses Feathers as their main topic.

Students learn to use a variety of techniques

Overall plan;

1. Presenting an artist study page: on Chris Maynard
2. Drawing with Oil pastel and learning various techniques to draw a Peacock feather: Sgrafitto, Tonal work, Blending
3. Making patterns with felt tips into a feather using zentangle patterns
4. Making a wax and scratch, that is, using wax crayons and oil pastel and to scratch out the feathers

Furthermore the students after exploring these techniques are asked to make their own very Dream catcher.

Students look at variety of different Dream catchers and go ahead to independently present their own.

There are examples of different dream catchers but also different wishes and needs one would want if one could wish for these things. The powerpoint shows examples of all the objects what one could need. Students soirce and collect poctures of all their needs.

Students can then put their final dream catcher together creatively and be innovative and unique about this.