FABULOUS FEATHERS!

The children were looking at LINE, SHAPE, TONE and PATTERN in these beautiful, observational drawings of feathers they created.  They really enjoyed using the 6B pencils to create some rich, velvety blacks in their drawings.  They drew feathers from a selection of hens, pigeon and pheasant and some lucky pupils were able to draw the Golden Eagle feather.

This boy from Abirlot looked really carefully at the different shapes and patterns in his pheasant feather above.

We talked about the different mathematical shapes we could identify in our feathers, before composing our drawings and were able to find triangles, semi-circles, trapeziums and parallelograms!    

Here is another lovely interpretation of the pheasant feather from a boy at Inverarity.

The work that has gone into the drawing above is tremendous, with all the individually overlapping feathers and the spectacular contrast between the light and dark tones.