Today, we had a guest speaker, Chloe, from Audubon teach the Urban Naturalists how to do good scientific drawings. We discussed the importance of focusing on shape, scale, descriptions and labeling over artistic accuracy. We found out we had MANY artists in the class, some who didn't even know they were excellent with scientific observation and recording!
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Chloe showed us some excellent examples
of scientific drawings |
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Putting what we learned to good use! We
practiced scientific drawings using biofacts
from Audubon. |
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Urban Naturalist practicing drawing without looking
up from his specimen. |
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| Oh No! A coyote skull tried to eat one of our students! |
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One student did an EXCELLENT job demonstrating
dimension in her scientific drawing. |
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Working hard to capture the shape of the
coyote skull! |
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| Not bad for a short, ten minute sketch! |
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| Sketching out the rings on a tree cookie! |
After practicing on un-moving objects, we then took on a real challenge by sketching a LIVE animal! Meet Otie, our Eastern Screech Owl! The Urban Naturalists took some time to sketch out as many details as they could about the owl. See more examples of their journal entries on the
Journal Entries page!
Was very fun and pretty hard to draw most things but had a great time.Like this class a lot!
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