Insectarium Project - click here for more info
Insectarium Project - click here for more info
Be mindful where you tread this season as we step into the land of bugs, slugs and winged ones that make our world go round.
We’ll turn our little friends into drawings & paintings, filling our sketchbooks with bug-lore and finding out more about how each little critter contributes to the balance and harmony of our ecosystem.
Project Content:
Cycle 1 : Snails | Snail Anatomy, Sketching Snail Shells, Snails and tonal scales, Garden Snails.
Cycle 2: Slugs | Fun Slug facts, Slug Anatomy, Slug ID, Slug Folklore, Inky slugs, Slug colour swatching and Watercolour Slug study
Cycle 3: Beetles | Beetle Morphology, Beetle Anatomy, Beetle Sketching, Beetle Shapes and Beetle watercolour swatching
Cycle 4: Iridescent Beetles | Rose Chafer and Tansy Beetle ID, Sketching Rose Chafer and Tansy Beetle / Colour swatching, Tansy Beetle step by step in watercolour
Cycle 5: Spiders | What are arachnids? Spider Anatomy, Stories about spiders (folklore), Daddy Long Legs and False Widow Spiders, Inky winky spiders and webs
Cycle 6: Grasshoppers and Crickets | Grasshopper Anatomy, Grasshopper spiritual meaning & folklore, Field & Meadow Grasshoppers, Grasshopper Sketching and in depth pen and wash study.
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