Drawing for school white crane. Cranes in Feng Shui - a symbol of health and longevity

Korin Ogata 1658-1716 - Cranes.

As an image and theme, the crane is found in all types of traditional Japanese arts, especially in painting. The crane is the bird of immortality, it symbolizes longevity, happiness and prosperity. His image on screens or scrolls had a benevolent character and represented a huge variety of varieties, each of which conveyed the subtlest shades of meaning.

This is an engraving by Kitao Shigemas - surimono - greeting card, they were made for holidays, significant dates, holidays. This surimono is supposedly dedicated to some kind of family date. The image of a pair of cranes means a long, happy family union and well-being. The crane, enjoys a reputation as a partiarch among birds, has life wisdom. Therefore, the husband and wife, like two cranes together, are able to solve any problem and remove any obstacle that arises in the family life path.

Shunsho Katsukawa 1726-1792 - Cranes, turtles and pines. The image of cranes against the background of pines symbolizes power and resilience, because the pine is a symbol of inner strength, perseverance and steadfastness.

The same story by Hokusai.

Ichiryusai HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) - Cranes and pines.

Two scrolls from the triptych "Thousand Cranes" - "Cranes among the pines" Cranes among the bamboo", and unfortunately I do not have the image of the third scroll "Cranes among the plums". The combination of these three plants was not chosen by chance. Pine, bamboo and plum, which blooms at the end of winter and is considered a symbol of purity, have been part of a benevolent system since ancient times, even among the Chinese, symbolizing longevity, stamina, fortitude. These plants are called "three friends of cold winter".
Bamboo symbolizes endurance and protection - it can endure both hot summers and cold winters. The image of cranes among bamboo means good luck associated with a long and happy life.
Plum blossoms before other plants, it blooms in late winter or early spring, therefore it symbolizes strength, stamina, hermitage and purity. It was customary to decorate women's hairstyles with plum blossom branches, so this plant also symbolized beauty.
When these three trees are depicted together, they symbolize friendship that can withstand any adversity.

Yoshitoshi Taiso depicted Minamoto no Yorimoto, the founder of the Kamakura shogunate and its first ruler, releasing a thousand cranes into the sky.

Triptych by Utamoro Kitagawa - Cranes Release Ceremony. For an adequate impression, of course, these fragments are better.
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The theme is continued by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

Hiroshige II Utagawa 1829-1869. Flying cranes.

Sketches of cranes from Hokusai.

Well, not only cranes, of course)

Another Hokusai - Cranes in front of Fuji.

Pair of works by Hiroshige

Photo 1. Encounters with these large and cautious birds became frequent with me as soon as I started visiting places more remote from Moscow. Flocks often fly high and often call to each other in a flock. It is impossible not to notice and hear large and loud-voiced birds. In the spring, I never managed to devote enough time to them to find a nesting pair, find a nest, shoot adults next to the chicks. Being engaged in filming currents of chicken birds, I had to choose to deal with them or cranes. But in the second half of the summer, when there is a lull in shooting for a photo hunter, common cranes attract attention. By this time, the crane families leave their nesting sites. They are easier to watch.

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 have hatched in the middle lane, are already flying. In early and mid-August, families can be seen in the fields. Two or, in extreme cases, one of the adults carefully looks in the direction of a person or machine, and young birds swarm carelessly, with their heads bowed to the ground. The latter are easily distinguished by a uniform gray plumage with a reddish head, while the underside of the head and throat of adults are black.

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


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In the second half of the summer, after the chicks of the common cranes take flight, the crane families leave the marshes and damp marshes of the black alders. Birds appear in hayfields after the grass has been mowed there, and then in the fields of grain when they are harvested. At first, families keep apart, adults teach young people various tricks of the life of a crane, and it takes time for the chicks to gain strength and get stronger before a long journey to warm countries. But from September, cranes begin to gather in some fields in larger and larger groups, and in October, having trained in flights 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 sunshine or rain, they will fly to feed on the field. In early September, cranes collect the remains of the crop, which they dropped during harvesting, and peck at small living creatures. After the stubble is plowed and 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. A little later, winter crops germinate and the whole field becomes pale green from young sprouts.
Cranes do not arrive at once in a large flock. As soon as it becomes so clear that you can definitely 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 silently, without the usual cooing. Their task is to find out if there is any danger on the field. Cranes make a circle over the field and sit far from bushes, trees and weeds. A few minutes later, the first flock of their relatives flies behind the scouts. They sit down next to the first.

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The first cranes cautiously looked around and listened, but the more birds there were, the more freely they behaved. Then flock after flock arrives and within an hour all the other cranes gather on the field. True, this does not mean that during the whole day the common cranes no longer fly over the field. On the contrary, it is quite normal that some birds fly in and out of here. Birds call to those who are in another field, fly to feed or to a watering hole.


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Cranes fly in small groups or families. In autumn, the family is a strong and indivisible group of 3-5 birds, two of which are adults, and 1-3 are 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, having found something “delicious”, can feed it to one of the chicks.


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The chicks emit a thin squeak that does not fit in with the important appearance of a tall legged bird. This voice seems to haunt the parents always. Even in flight, young cranes chirp tirelessly. And they rarely go far from their parents.


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In addition to families in a crane flock, there may be groups consisting only of adult cranes. These are unsuccessfully nesting pairs or one-year-old birds not yet ready for breeding. Such companies are interesting to the photographer because the behavior of non-family birds is more free and unpredictable.


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Either several birds suddenly begin to scream loudly and “trumpeting”, stretching their necks and raising their beaks, then a quarrel breaks out between two cranes, developing into an air duel with low jumps and attacks with legs and beak. This spectacular spectacle rarely occurs near the tent, and it is not always possible to shoot it, but the more valuable the shots received.
The “discovery” seemed very unusual to me, that on a hot, sunny day, cranes definitely need a watering hole. Birds are unpretentious and can be content with a puddle at the edge of the field, but if there are no puddles, then the cranes will find a river or a ditch. When the sun bakes, the cranes in families and small groups, in a row, will reach for the water. It is enough to show one bird a place to drink, as others from different parts of the field will be drawn here.

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


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During wintering, young birds molt, but still stay close to their parents, and, according to observations of ornithologists, they fly together to our north in spring. Only adults fly to the nesting site, and the young flock and feed all summer in the meadows, where it is easy to feed. They reach sexual maturity after 3 years. It is believed that a pair is formed in cranes for life, but if one of the partners died, then the rest finds a replacement for him.


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Very difficult relationship between common cranes and humans. To begin with, nesting birds do not tolerate the presence of people in the nesting area at all and quickly leave such lands. 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 nature photographer Klaus Nigge, who held a master class on December 18 as part of the Nature Photography Day. It was a bit of a shock to see how the common crane behaves in Europe, where it is not persecuted. This is the gullibility of nesting pairs of cranes, which now densely populate all suitable biotopes for this species, when, for example, they nest quite openly in a small reservoir, in the middle of a cultivated field. Photographing common cranes in Western Europe and in 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. In Israel, there is another known wintering of these birds. There they treat this bird no less civilized and the cranes are comfortable.


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We currently have shy birds, but this caution is acquired with many years of negative experience. Despite the ban on hunting, they are shot at (I heard it myself), either for fun, or to test weapons. It's a shame that for the pleasure of a few stupid people with weapons, most of our fellow citizens can't even properly examine this bird. Just look at other people's photos. Admire these majestic birds, see how gracefully they clean their huge feathers, how they gracefully walk across the field, taking large steps, how slowly they collect 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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Today we will draw a crane. Let us dwell on the white crane, which is also called the Siberian Crane. Cranes are ancient and very beautiful birds. And very large - they can reach a weight of several kilograms. It is one of the heaviest flying birds.

The crane, as you know, is mainly engaged in standing knee-deep in water and waiting for fish or frogs to serve as food, or walking with clumsy grace along the river bank or hunting in the swamp. In general, the shape of the body and lifestyle of the crane is similar to other marsh birds - storks and herons. It is the habitat that determines their characteristic appearance.

The body of the crane is powerful, but at the same time graceful, the neck is long, curved, the legs are also long and thin. The beak is large, especially in the Siberian Crane. A crane flies with its neck and legs stretched out.

The crane is the hero of many myths and fairy tales, most likely, that is why we decided to draw it. Our crane is just wading through the swamp in search of food. Depicting it, we will kill two birds with one stone - we will combine the topics: “how to draw a crane” and “how to draw a walking bird”.

Draw a crane step by step

The body is large. The wings are folded over the back. The neck is long and curved almost like a swan, but there is a difference - the beak. It is large and tweezers - "grasping". Now there is such a nuance: the legs, look at the picture, fall almost in the middle of the body, let's compare it with a sparrow: his legs are so honest - literally at the end of the body. How so? So I think that the sparrow helps out because it is small, light and compact. And the crane needs to maintain balance on long legs, and the neck also pulls forward, so that the tail part should be a sufficient counterweight.

Of course, it does not follow from this that anatomically the legs of the crane grow from the abdomen: such an impression is created due to the wide massive tail and croup.

And now another crane, he is pecking at something from the ground. A very interesting pose - the bend of the neck is simply uniquely graceful.

Draw a sketch with a pencil and then refine the details. I first outlined the torso, then worked out the neck and, making sure that everything was in order with all the beautiful, but complex curves, I calmly drew the legs and a powerful tail.

In general, in theory, you need to draw from large to small. In theory. In practice, sometimes, having decided on the main masses, I draw further exactly what seems to me the most difficult, and when this part of the work is done, I draw further in the joyful confidence that the picture will "succeed" well.

There are many types of cranes. Now we are drawing Japanese crane. And what does our native gray crane look like? The one who wooed the heron, but did he get acquainted with the fox?

How to draw a crane - lesson 3

He really is worth it, but what can you do? - do not scare him for the sake of the picture!

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 fine art teachers, teachers of additional education of artistic and aesthetic orientation, students from grade 3 can quite successfully cope with this work. This master class can be used in drawing classes, in circle work, for decorating the interior and as 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 done without a preliminary drawing.
Purpose: use in drawing classes, in circle work, interior decoration, as a practical work when getting acquainted with the animal world of the native land, as a gift.
Target: execution of the composition - Cranes are flying.
Tasks: improve your gouache skills
formation of the ability to create the volume of the depicted object using pictorial means
promote the development of creative abilities
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
to cultivate interest in the wildlife of the native land, to develop accuracy in work
Materials:
gouache
whatman format A-3.,
nylon brushes numbered 2, 3, 5.

Execution sequence:

Place a sheet of paper vertically. Draw a solar disk with a pencil. We don't need a pencil anymore.

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

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

Let's start drawing the birds. With a thin brush - in white we outline the outline of the body and head.

We draw the neck of the crane.

Outline the tail.

Fill in the tail with color.

We draw a beak and a "hat" on the bird's head.

We draw dark spots on the head and neck of the bird.

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

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

Slightly blur the contours 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 large feathers in gray 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 large gray feathers.

We draw the legs of the bird in brown.

We draw fingers.

With light white strokes we outline the light on the paws of the bird.

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

We draw the tail and the main volume of the wing.

We draw a "hat" on the head of the bird and dark spots on the head and neck of the bird.

We draw the 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.

In gray, we draw large feathers along the edge of the wings.

We draw the second wing.

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

We draw the paws of the bird and outline the belly of the third crane in gray.

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

We outline the tail.

Draw the neck and head of the bird.

We draw the legs of the crane.

There are many legends about this bird, beautiful songs and instructive tales have been composed about cranes. It is a symbol of family happiness and comfort. The native home of birds is in Europe, Australia. Asia and North America. Cranes settle in places where there are water bodies. Therefore, most often they can be seen in swampy areas.

How to draw a crane? It is a large bird with long and thin lower limbs. The crane has a long beak with which it can catch small fish. The bird's neck is thin and long. Coloring can be different: black, white, gray, combined. It all depends on the type of bird, because there are about 8 varieties.

A simple step by step way to create a bird

First you need to learn how to draw the right bends in right places to make the bird look realistic. We will analyze all the structural features of the body, after which we will learn how to draw a crane in stages. We start with the head and neck. Leaving room for the beak, you should make a rounded small head, which continues with a long and curved neck. Behind the head we make two large and sharp sections. Next, we move to the back, making out a small hill. We lead below and finish with a sharp tail.

From the hill in the middle of the body, draw the border of the wing. We finish the area under the tail with a sharp section of the wing. Now the neck. On it we make a wavy area that reaches the wing. On the bottom line of the body, draw the sharp tips of the feathers.

We return to the head of the bird. Add a long beak, a rounded eye with a pupil. On the back we draw rows of sharp and rounded feathers. Below, under the wing, we make two oval sections, from which thin limbs will need to be released. At the bottom, they diverge into a paw with several fingers and claws. In the background we draw nature: trees, hills and a river.

Draw in three steps

Let's move on to a more complex and precise drawing. So, how to draw a crane with a pencil? First, you will need to draw the primitive boundaries of different parts of the body with a slight movement of the hand. And then we detail the areas and draw boundaries. We make a small circle for the head, draw out a triangle of the beak from it. From this design, we lead the curved tube of the neck down, then we move on to the humpbacked back. Immediately draw the line of the wing down to the tail. In the middle of the body we describe the curve of the wing.

We return to the beginning of work. We make out the beak, head, drawing eyes and muscles on it. Add a couple of feathers to the back of the head. At the tip of the tail we make several separate feathers. We finish drawing the legs of the crane. They will be thin to the middle, then a thickening should be made. After this section, the limbs will again be narrow. The bird rests on a paw with three fingers.

Get rid of additional lines, draw all borders and draw the background. This will be the surface of the earth with grass bushes.

bird in flight

We change the drawing technique and learn how to draw a flying crane. His head is turned to the left. We start work with the head, making it almost round. To the left we release a long beak, draw an eye and then we lead the neck to the right. We bend this part of the body of the bird.

After a long neck pipe, draw a wing that is open. To do this, you need to draw each feather on the back of the wing.

We bring this line to the body. Now we make out the torso and tail by drawing feathers. Between the tail and the wing we make the second. It will consist of two layers of feathers.

We finish drawing two long and thin legs, ending with branched sections of the fingers. We go through all the sections with hatching. It turned out to be a fairy-tale hero of a large number of domestic fairy tales. Cranes always fly with keys, forming a peculiar kind of figure. This is done so that each bird has room for a wing span, but at the same time they fly near each other supporting their brothers. Every spring, birds fly to us, voicing their arrival with a kind of cooing, and every autumn they fly away to warmer climes.

Detailed step by step instructions

We draw an oval of the head, adding a horizontal bend in it just above the middle. A little lower we draw an oval at an angle, it should be much larger than the previous one. We connect these two figures with a curve.

We cling to the oval of the head beak. We do this on the left side, going a little on the head.

From the middle of the large oval, we begin to make part of the leg. We go down and do two circles.

We increase the neck, describing the border on both sides with curves. We finish the body with a tail.

We connect the torso with two circles below with long tubes of legs.

On the head, given the horizontal curve, draw a round eye. On the oval of the body, we make a curve throughout the area, which will limit the line of the wing.

On the tail, draw three parallel sections for feathers.

Again we return to the head of the crane. From the beak to the eye we lead black areas. We make several zones, enclosing them with small curves. Now it's the turn of the wing detailing. A little below the curve on the body, draw another wing line, adding a curve just above. Let's move on to the lower legs. We draw three long fingers with claws on the tips. We make a thickening in the middle of the leg.

We wipe all the auxiliary lines, correcting the drawing in the right places.

Children's simple option

And now you can relax and figure out how to draw a crane for a child. We draw a beak, from which we draw a line of the head and smoothly move to the neck. We divide the beak into two parts. Now we make a round eye and slightly take the straight line to the side.

From the neck we draw the line of the body. Let's make it big. On it we draw several rows of feathers.

From the last zone of the body, we lead the straight line of the long tail down. On it we draw several layers of feathers. They should reach the floor and even drag a little on it.

We draw long and thin legs under the body so that they cross.

We point again all the lines and get a beautiful and thoughtful crane. Any child can make such a character. If something doesn't work, you can always erase it with an eraser or start over. In order not to wipe it several times, all elements should be drawn up with a slight movement of the pencil so that it is practically invisible. After that, you can immediately correct the desired part of the picture.