Visual Arts Planning: Making and Drawing Birds

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Sculpture of a Bird by Ellie Daly

Drawing, Painting and Printmaking

Creating decorative designs from birds

Creating patterns from birds

Andrea Butler shows how drawings can be used to develop a range of patterned papers and stitched textiles.

Dragons and birds in eggs

Drawing eggs

Use carbon paper to create a 'hidden and revealed' effect when imagining what might be inside a large egg!

In the company of birds

Sharing printmaking inspiration

Printmaker Kittie Jones for sharing this insight into her working practice and inspiration.

Swoop: Migrating Birds

Painting migrating birds

Rachel Burch has used this low budget project to re-engage and energise the students’ creativity.

Birds in the trees

Drawing birds in the trees

Collage images of birds onto mixed media backgrounds, to produce a set of lively and colourful images.

Drawing birds with mixed media

Creating wax resist drawings of birds

Create drawings inspired by magazine imagery using mixed media.

Wax Resist nests

Making drawings of nests using a range of materials

Draw and make working with hard and soft pencils, graphite, wax resist, watercolour, clay and sticks.

Nests project: With Wet and dry media

Teacher Mandy Barrett and Artist Jo Blaker journey on a project that considers the materials and structures of nests.

Teacher Mandy Barrett and Artist Jo Blaker journey on a project that considers the materials and structures of nests.

Sculpture and Mixed Media

Making birds from card, paper and wire

Making sculptural birds

These striking birds are easy to make and combine your drawing and making skills.

Rook: Transforming materials

Making a rook from wire and metal

Begin with a wire armature before adding beads and other objects to replicate the form of a rook.

flying minpin birds

Sculptural birds inspired by Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl’s incredible book The Minpins (1991) is the inspiration behind these sculptural flying birds.

Sculptural birds in flight

Sculpting flying birds

In this workshop teenagers played with sculptural ideas around building form and mass, tension and scale by combining materials.

Sculpting birds from old books

Using old books to create bird sculptures

Create a small flock of birds from the pages of Paula's Drawing Projects book.

Flock!

Making paper birds

Design a simple bird in felt tip and allow them to 'take flight’ in a collaborative installation.

Making bird and insects

Making birds and insects from mixed materials

Create birds and insects for a school tree.

colourful sculptural birds

Making colourful sculptural birds

Inspired by the Dorset based artist, Peter Rush, create comical sculptural birds.

Making modroc sculptures

Making modroc sculptural birds

A simple modroc activity, inviting participants to make birds and pets.

Building a nest

Building nests

A session centred around an exploration of the materials and construction methods we might use to build inventive, sculptural nests.

how to make an origami bird

Making origami birds

Using origami to transform old artwork.

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