Visual Arts Planning: Making and Drawing Birds

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Birds offer great opportunities to explore drawing and making, while also facilitating discussions around migration, community, and the environment. Explore out collection of bird resources below.

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Sculpture of a Bird by Ellie Daly

Explore Making and Drawing Birds resources

Drawing feathers

Using old books to create bird sculptures

Draw feathers using different drawing materials

Wax Resist nests

Making drawings of nests using a range of materials

Make mixed-media drawings of nests

paper pigeon project

Making modroc sculptural birds

Explore mark-making to create a textural bird

NESTS: WET AND DRY MEDIA

Explore the materials and structures of nests through ink

Explore the materials and structures of nests through ink

Nests: Materials, tools and sketchbooks

Building nests

Create inventive and exploratory marks

Nests: observational ink drawing

Making origami birds

Observe and draw a series of natural objects

Drawing birds with mixed media

Creating wax resist drawings of birds

Create drawings inspired by magazine imagery

Creating decorative designs from birds

Creating patterns from birds

Create patterned papers inspired by birds

Swoop: Migrating Birds

Painting migrating birds

Create paintings inspired by the theme 'migration'

Birds in the trees

Drawing birds in the trees

Create mixed media trees and birds

Dragons and birds in eggs

Drawing eggs

Imagine what might be inside a large egg

Flock!

Making paper birds

Create a simple collaborative installation

Making birds from card, paper and wire

Making sculptural birds

Combine drawing, collage and making skills

Adapting AccessArt: Making birds for send

Using old books to create bird sculptures

Explore an adaptation of the Making Birds pathway

Sculpting birds from old books

Using old books to create bird sculptures

Create a small flock of birds from the pages

Rook: Transforming materials

Making a rook from wire and metal

Create an armature of a bird from wire and beads

colourful sculptural birds

Making colourful sculptural birds

Create comical sculptural birds

Building a nest

Building nests

Build inventive and sculptural nests

Making modroc sculptures

Making modroc sculptural birds

Make birds and pets from modroc

Making bird and insects

Making birds and insects from mixed materials

Create birds and insects for a school tree

Sculptural birds in flight

Sculpting flying birds

Explore mass, tension, scale, and materiality

flying minpin birds

Sculptural birds inspired by Roald Dahl

Create sculptures inspired by The Minpins (1991)

how to make an origami bird

Making origami birds

Use origami to transform old artwork

decorative aviary box

Building nests

Create a flock, inspired by Joseph Cornell

In the company of birds

Sharing printmaking inspiration

Explore Kittie Jones working practice

Manipulating paper: from 2d to 3d

Making modroc sculptural birds

Explore how paper can be transformed into feathers

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