Peacock Art cultural project -drawing oil pastel and group project making a peacock

In this powerpoint there is cultural information on the symbolism of the peacock in Indian Art and a look at the peacock dance.

Students make a peacock feather drawing looking at a few essential oil pastel techniques: sgrafitto, layering, blending, stippling.

Students then are asked to evaluate this outcome and then as a whole class the second project on the powerpoint is that each student is now asked to make a peacock feather which could then be added to a drawing of the body of the peacock.

Resources given to support this.This could be completed in any medium, pen work or watercolour or oil pastel.

There are examples of different large peacock outcomes in different media and the teacher will need to decide how she would like to do this.