Owl Feather Watercolor

Описание: Whenever possible, I incorporate art into our lessons. It's not a art lesson, rather it's a science lesson that's artistically depicted. Sometimes art is the perfect medium for a lesson and when it comes to nature science, I can't think of a better choice. Each spring, we pull out our nature units, and I find that our main lesson books are either wholly empty or filled with magnificent watercolors. There's limited writing and a lot more hands on projects.

For this lesson, we were inspired by the book "Owls, Strange and Wonderful" by Laurence Pringle. The illustrations are glorious and the text is easy to follow along with and appropriately informative. There are several painted owl feathers, and I thought we could recreate the artwork.

For this project, I used my Silhouette Cameo to die cut feathers from Fabriano 90lb. watercolor paper. You can free hand feathers or skip it entirely and just paint!
We also used our Distress Inks in a variety of tans and browns. You can find the complete list of colors on the blog post that accompanies this video.
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After cutting the feathers, the children and I tried recreating specific feather patterns. While we had a nice time doing this, we found that accurately watercoloring the patterns was such a challenge!! In the end, it was an artistic representation of the lesson and definitely called on our powers of observation as we looked at the details of each feather.

We also had two feathers we got from nature class. The large one is a barn owl feather and the small one is a western screech owl feather.

While you can do this project with any kind of paint, I do recommend using watercolors for the beautiful translucent feel. We used our Distress Inks as watercolors for some and our Winsor Newton watercolors for others. I think both worked well.

You can see the other projects for our Owl Unit Study here:
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