Children's drawings on the theme of white cranes. Gray cranes - v_zabugin

Drawing on the topic: Spring for younger students from grade 3

Spring. Cranes are Flying. Step by step drawing.

Dyakova Olga Sergeevna teacher of the class of fine arts MBOUDO "DSHI", Okhansk
Material description: this master class will be useful for teachers of fine arts, teachers of additional education of artistic and aesthetic orientation, students starting from grade 3 can quite successfully cope with this work. This master class can be used in drawing classes, in circle work, to decorate the interior and how practical work when getting acquainted with the animal world of the native land, also as a gift.
Step by step drawing - will help to avoid the most common mistakes and give self-confidence.
The work is carried out without a preliminary drawing.
Purpose: use in drawing lessons, in circle work, interior decoration, as a practical work in acquaintance with the animal world of the native land, as a gift.
Target: composition execution - The cranes are flying.
Tasks: improve the skills to work with gouache
the formation of the ability to create the volume of the depicted object using pictorial means
foster creativity
develop a sense of composition, observation, the ability to analyze the shape of the depicted objects, deepen the sense of perception of color and color harmony
foster interest in the animal world of the native land, develop accuracy in work
Materials:
gouache
Whatman format A-3.,
nylon brushes numbered 2, 3, 5.

Sequence of execution:

Place the sheet of paper vertically. Draw a sun disk with a pencil. We don't need any more pencil.

We make the sky from the solar disk to the edges with large rings (gradually increasing the radius and darkening the color). The colors of the circles are consistently yellow (sun), yellow-white, pale blue, light blue, light blue.

We blur the boundaries between the "rings", making the transitions smoother.

We start drawing the birds. With a thin brush - in white, outline the outline of the body and head.

We draw the neck of the crane.

We outline the outline of the tail.

Fill the tail with color.

Draw a beak and a "cap" on the bird's head.

Draw dark spots on the head and neck of the bird.

Draw shadows on the belly and tail of the bird.

With a thin brush, in gray, draw feathers on the tail of the bird.

Slightly blur the outlines of the feathers along the bottom edge, creating a shadow effect.

We outline the bend of future wings and their contours.

We color the main masses of the wings.

We draw in gray the large feathers along the edge of the wings.

We divide the gray part of the wings into large feathers.

With light white strokes we outline the light on the large gray feathers.

Draw the legs of the bird in brown.

We draw the fingers.

With light white strokes we outline the light on the bird's legs.

Next, draw the second crane. With a thin brush - in white, outline the outline of the body, head and neck.

Draw the tail and the main volume of the wing.

Draw a "cap" on the bird's head and dark spots on the bird's head and neck.

We draw a beak.

We draw shadows on the abdomen and tail of the bird, draw feathers.

Slightly blur the shadows along the inner contour, softening their borders.

With a thin brush, in gray, draw small feathers along the base of the wings.

Draw large feathers in gray along the edge of the wings.

We draw the second wing.

We divide the gray part of the wings into large feathers, in black.

Draw the legs of the bird and outline in gray the belly of the third crane.

We draw the silhouette of the wings. We perform the third crane in a silhouette without small details.

We outline the tail.

We draw the neck and head of the bird.

We draw the legs of the crane.

Most animals do not even have a clue that they symbolize and mean something in the people. For example, one who regularly shits on monuments and other people may well be unaware that he somehow symbolizes the world, and in honor of geese and goats, beer is called, and not very bad. Today we will learn how to draw a crane. The crane is a representative of birds, which leaves people in their hands all the time, and he himself freely plows the expanses of the universe of the sky. It is a representative of real cranes, unlike flamingos and kiwi, which are actually called pseudo-cranes. They live in swamp areas, that is, in villages and urban-type settlements (like me in other things). The important thing is that cranes fly with keys, which means they can open air holes, or close them, or in fact they are the license key to the airspace.

They are popularly used as pillow stuffing and a symbolic image for writing most of the 90s pop songs.

Observations made by British scientists:

• Cranes can make a nest on the roof of a house and live like Carlson;
• You will never see them in a tree, for they do not like to sit in trees;
• If a house with a roof is not found, the cranes live in the swamp along with the devils that live there;
• In one fairy tale, the subject made friends with a fox, but after two unsuccessful dates, where both remained barefoot and hungry, their strong friendship disappeared in an unknown direction.

Now let's get down to business.

How to draw a crane with a pencil step by step

Step one. First, create the shape of the body, select the legs with a long line, and draw the head on top. Step two. Combine the head with the body with the neck, add the second raised paw and the shape of the wing. Step three. Shade the bird, correct the contours of the lines and add the eyes and beak. Step four. Clean the drawing with an eraser and add some more shading. Now you're done. Let me remind you that there are many more bird drawing lessons at DayFun. I especially advise you to try to sketch these.

The crane is a bird from the Crane-like order of the Crane family. This is a bird of water and near-water spaces. She settles near water bodies. The crane has long legs and a neck. When he flies, he always stretches his legs and neck in length. The head is usually small. Can walk on water in shallow water thanks to its long and slender legs. It feeds on aquatic insects, which it catches from the water column or takes it out by digging it out of the watery muddy soil. It can also eat seeds, shoots and plant roots. For the breeding season, like many birds, it forms pairs. Builds a nest on the edge of a reservoir, usually hides it in dense vegetation. There are 2-5 chicks. Cranes are heroes of many Russians folk tales... They are often represented in them as very intelligent creatures. Let's draw a crane in stages with a pencil here in the lesson.

Stage 1. Draw lines-helpers. A small round head, from which in front we immediately draw two straight lines, converging at the end and separated in the middle by a straight line. This is the beak. From the head we outline a smooth S-curved line of the long neck. It connects to the oval body. Below from him we draw legs, bent at the joint.

Stage 2. Draw the outlines of the head, passing into the neck. On the head we designate an eye with a pupil.

Stage 4. On the side of the body we draw the upper feathers of the wing folded at rest. After that, under the first feathers, show the bottom feathers.

Stage 5. Under the belly of the crane along the sketch lines we mark the legs of the crane. They are rather thin, thickened only at the top and in the place of the joint.

Stage 6. At the bottom we will draw his foot with thumbs, three of which are directed forward, and one is turned back. Show sharp curved claws on the fingers.

Stage 7. And now we will arrange a beautiful fluffy tail of the bird. We make feathers on the back of the body, first the top layer, then the bottom layer of feathers.

Stage 8. Detail the feathers, showing the trunk and grooves of the first order (see our lesson on drawing a feather).

Stage 9. This is what an unpainted crane looks like.

Photo 1. Meetings with these large and cautious birds became frequent with me, as soon as I began to visit places farther from Moscow. Flocks often fly high and often echo in the flock. It is impossible not to notice and hear large and loud-voiced birds. In the spring, I never managed to give them enough time to find a nesting pair, find a nest, or photograph adults next to the chicks. While filming the currents of chicken birds, one had to choose to do them or cranes. But in the second half of summer, when the shooting is expected to be quiet, the gray cranes attract attention. By this time, the families of cranes leave their nesting stations. It's easier to watch them.

Photo 2. The chicks manage to reach the size of adults only two months after hatching. By the end of July, young cranes, those that hatched in the middle lane, are already flying. In early to mid-August, families can be seen in the fields. Two or, in extreme cases, one of the adults is looking attentively in the direction of a person or a machine, and young birds carelessly swarm, tilting their heads to the ground. The latter can be easily distinguished by their monochromatic gray plumage with a reddish head, while the underside of the head and throat of adults are black.

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Up close, the parents can distinguish red bare skin on the crown of the head. Very noticeable in adults and white stripes on the sides of the neck, which start from the eyes and go down the neck and end with a black throat above the goiter. The chicks, in spite of the fact that they caught up with the adults in size, still squeak like a child. Therefore, often, when birds fly in the air over the observer, their thin squeak is clearly audible. The joint flight of the family is also touching, when parents fly on both sides of the young birds, as if protecting them from a shot.


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In the second half of summer, after the chicks of the common cranes are on the wing, the families of the cranes leave the swamps and wet swamps of the black alder forests. Birds appear on hayfields, after the grass has been mowed there, and then in grain fields, when they are harvested. At first, families keep apart, adults teach young people different wisdom of crane life, and it takes time for the chicks to gain strength and get stronger before the long road to warm countries. But from September the cranes begin to gather in some fields in larger and larger groups, and in October, having trained in flight and united in large flocks, they leave us.


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The weather has almost no effect on the daily routine of the cranes, whether it is sun or rain, they will fly to feed on the field. In early September, the cranes collect the remnants of the harvest that they dropped during harvesting, and peck on small animals. After the stubble is plowed and the winter crops are sown, they collect the grains lying on the surface, since there are so many of them that there is no need to look for them. A little later, winter crops germinate and the whole field becomes pale green from young shoots.
Cranes do not come in large flocks at once. As soon as it becomes so clear that one can confidently distinguish the blades of grass from a bird's eye view, the first cranes appear over the field. It can be one or two birds or a family of three or four birds. They fly in silence, without the usual churring. Their task is to find out if there is any danger on the field. The cranes make a circle over the field and sit away from bushes, trees and weeds. In a few minutes the first flock of their relatives flies after the scouts. They sit not far from the first.

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The first cranes looked around and listened cautiously, but the more birds there were, the freer they behaved. Then flocks come after flock and within an hour all other cranes gather on the field. However, this does not mean that the gray cranes no longer fly over the field during the whole day. On the contrary, it is quite normal that some birds come and fly away from here. Birds echo with those who are in another field, fly to feed or to drink.


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Cranes fly in small groups or families. In autumn, the colony is a strong and indivisible group of 3-5 birds, two of which are adults, and 1-3 chicks of this year. Chicks are easily distinguished from their parents. They do not have adult plumage. It is very interesting to watch how adults take care of their grown children, even in autumn, when each bird is looking for its own food in the field, one of the parents, finding something “tasty”, can feed it to one of the chicks.


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Chicks emit a thin squeak, which does not fit in any way with the important appearance of a tall, ankle bird. This voice, it seems, always haunts the parents. Even in flight, young cranes are wailing tirelessly. And they rarely stray far from their parents.


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In addition to families, a flock of cranes can contain groups consisting only of adult cranes. These are unsuccessfully nested pairs or one-yearlings, birds that are not yet ready for breeding. Such companies are of interest to the photographer because the behavior of unrelated birds is more free and unpredictable.


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Now several birds suddenly begin to loudly and "trumpet" screaming, stretching their necks and raising their beaks, then a quarrel breaks out between the two cranes, developing into an air duel with low jumps and attacks with legs and beak. This spectacular show rarely takes place near the tent, and it is not always imagined to take it off, but the more valuable is the received footage.
It seemed very unusual to me the "discovery" that on a hot, sunny day, cranes definitely need a watering hole. The birds are unassuming and can settle for a puddle at the edge of the field, but if there are no puddles, the cranes will find a river or ditch. When the sun is hot, the cranes in families and small groups will be drawn in a line to the water. It is enough to show one bird the place of watering, as from different ends of the field others will be drawn here.

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Overcoming long distances, the flock most often flies in the correct wedge. It has been experimentally proven that with such an arrangement, the first bird is in the most difficult position, and the rest is much easier to fly. In the open spaces, they can be seen and heard from afar.


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During wintering, young birds molt, but they still keep near their parents and, according to the observations of ornithologists, they fly to our north in spring together. Only adults fly to the nesting site, and young ones flock and feed all summer in meadows, where it is easy to feed. They become sexually mature after 3 years. It is believed that a pair is formed in cranes for life, but if one of the partners dies, then the remaining one finds a replacement for him.


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Common cranes have a very difficult relationship with humans. To begin with, nesting birds do not tolerate the presence of people at the nesting site at all and quickly leave such grounds. Until now, they are hunted only in Pakistan and Afghanistan (the West Siberian population flies there for the winter). I was greatly impressed by the report of the German naturalist photographer Klaus Nigge, who held a master class on December 18 as part of the Day of Nature Photography. It was a bit of a shock at how the gray crane behaves in Europe, where it is not pursued. This gullibility of breeding pairs of cranes, which have now densely populated all suitable biotopes for this species, when, for example, they nest completely openly in a small reservoir in the middle of a cultivated field. Photographing of common cranes in Western Europe and Russia cannot be compared. They don't even think about shooting such wonderful birds, but in special protected areas they are fed and, perhaps, photographed. There is another known wintering site for these birds in Israel. There they treat this bird no less civilized and the cranes are comfortable.


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At the present time, these are shy birds, but this caution acquired with many years of negative experience. Despite the ban on hunting, they are being shot at (I heard it myself), either for fun, or to check weapons. It is a shame that for the pleasure of the few stupid people who have weapons, most of our fellow citizens cannot even really see this bird. Is that what to look at other people's photographs. Admire these majestic birds, see how gracefully they clean their huge feathers, how decorously they walk across the field, taking large steps, how they slowly gather grain on the ground and how beautiful a flock of cranes is in the sky. How great this magnificent spectacle would look in relation to every corner of our country.


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