Mackenzie and Kinley showing their Art Smarts

First Ms. Klaudt showed us some northern lights on the computer. She wanted us to look at the brightness and the fact that they were not straight lines but wavey lines. Then we picked a design from  one of her pictures, using chalk we picked our colors. We drew on the paper making sure that the design moved our eyes across the page. We used our fingers to smudge the lines to create the shadowy affect. We then drew our birds. She reminded us that when we put on a beak the bird will look different, so make sure you pick a beak that fits your bird. We looked at books to make sure that the birds looked realistic.We then cut out our birds, then a strip of paper that looks like a wire (powerlines). We put the lines and the birds on the paper- made sure they were where we wanted them and then glued them on. (we were to make sure that we did not put our birds all in one spot, spread them out so our eyes would move across the page)
The part we liked the best was the chalk. We liked to smudge our lines to make whatever design we wanted.