NATURE ILLUSTRATIONS
Art, Nature and Illustrating
500 Years of Nature Illustrations
Certification to Nature Illustration
Natural Science Illustration Student Perspective
Paper Bird Anatomy All about Bird Feathers
Art, Nature and Illustrating
500 Years of Nature Illustrations
Certification to Nature Illustration
Natural Science Illustration Student Perspective
Paper Bird Anatomy All about Bird Feathers
BIG IDEA: Students will create sketches from nature.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: Why might studying nature be relevant in a world filled with technology? Why might studying, drawing and sketching nature be relevant in a world filled with technology? KEY KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING:
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VOCABULARY:
NATURAL HISTORY: - The research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
ILLUSTRATION: - A visualization or a depiction made by an artist, such as a drawing, sketch, painting, photograph or other kind of image of things remembered or imagined, using a graphical representation. The word comes from Latin word illustra'tio,illu'stro meaning enlighten, irradiate.
WHY WE DRAW FROM LIFE:
Drawing and painting still life's are important. They teach you eye-brain-hand coordination, they teach you how color and light behaves, they teach you about composition, they allow you to manage proportions. For anatomy go to a zoo and draw every animal in your sight or to a natural history museum. If you are unable to go to a zoo watch Animal Planet or similar channel. Your home pet is good as well. For composition and light behavior spend a few hours on your still life and study it carefully.
TIPS:
Draw around 4 stills per week. Use well managed time. Study the colors of them, experience your still life, be it, connect to it. Don't draw digitally. Digital art won't allow you to learn the many important things which traditional art offers to you. Eventually you will learn how light, shadow, color behaves on many different surfaces and you will able to draw from imagination. Drawing takes time, practice and patience.
SCIENCE CONNECTIONS:
MUSEUMS...Brains, skulls and taxidermy...oh my!
Cushing Museum at Yale, New Haven, CT (Brains and skulls)
Yale Peabody Museum Collections, New Haven, CT (Natural History)
Museum of Natural History, Harvard, Boston Massachusetts (Mrs. G.s favorite museum)
Images from the Museum of Natural History
HOW TO DRAW & Artists:
Human Skulls
Cartoon X Ray Skeletons by artist Chris Panda
Brian Andrews - Humanoid - Animal video
MUSIC: Created by Crickets
EXCAVATED ANT COLONY
NATURAL HISTORY: - The research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
ILLUSTRATION: - A visualization or a depiction made by an artist, such as a drawing, sketch, painting, photograph or other kind of image of things remembered or imagined, using a graphical representation. The word comes from Latin word illustra'tio,illu'stro meaning enlighten, irradiate.
WHY WE DRAW FROM LIFE:
Drawing and painting still life's are important. They teach you eye-brain-hand coordination, they teach you how color and light behaves, they teach you about composition, they allow you to manage proportions. For anatomy go to a zoo and draw every animal in your sight or to a natural history museum. If you are unable to go to a zoo watch Animal Planet or similar channel. Your home pet is good as well. For composition and light behavior spend a few hours on your still life and study it carefully.
TIPS:
Draw around 4 stills per week. Use well managed time. Study the colors of them, experience your still life, be it, connect to it. Don't draw digitally. Digital art won't allow you to learn the many important things which traditional art offers to you. Eventually you will learn how light, shadow, color behaves on many different surfaces and you will able to draw from imagination. Drawing takes time, practice and patience.
SCIENCE CONNECTIONS:
- Natural Illustration, not only tell the story of the history of science and art but also of the advances and revelations of science and technology during the age of print. While still tools for science, natural illustration endure as small monuments to the achievements and struggles involved in the study of natural science over the centuries.
- In the age of technology it tends to be a dying art form that has been forgotten. It is important that artists, scientists, consumers, etc, recognize the importance of observation and where technology derived from.
MUSEUMS...Brains, skulls and taxidermy...oh my!
Cushing Museum at Yale, New Haven, CT (Brains and skulls)
Yale Peabody Museum Collections, New Haven, CT (Natural History)
Museum of Natural History, Harvard, Boston Massachusetts (Mrs. G.s favorite museum)
Images from the Museum of Natural History
HOW TO DRAW & Artists:
Human Skulls
Cartoon X Ray Skeletons by artist Chris Panda
Brian Andrews - Humanoid - Animal video
MUSIC: Created by Crickets
EXCAVATED ANT COLONY