Hidden Safari

Can you find me?

In this picture, I drew a picture of a elepant upside down.  You want to use a little blue colored pencil to get the best effect.  The lighter you draw your lines that easier it will be to hide the animal.  After you draw your picture you want to use warm colors to hide your animal.  You want to create patterns that distract your eyes.  Lines that are both horizontial and vertical are great.  Geomentric shapes that are colored in are good, but when you color them in try not to create the shapes on the lines of the animal becasue it makes it eaiser to see.  When drawing shapes to distract the eye you want to make them diffent sizes as well.  After finished with the picture you can view the animal with glasses that are tinted red.  When you use the red glasses it doesn't distract the naked eye from seeing the animal.  The glasses in a way block out the warm colors and then the cool colors stand out. 

Extention:
In a Science class, the teacher could use this activity to explain how certain animals hide themselves from other animals in the wild. The teacher can talk about why animals hide themselves and the importance.  Students could create there own animals and they could give clues to the other students.   After the activity is complete the teacher could then display the students work with different colored glasses and the title of the board could be, "I hide to stay alive!"

Eric Carl Story Illustration



First I took white paper and painted different colors on it and then let that dry.  I painted several different sheets with different colors to create the color of my drawings that I made to go on my story page.  I created a page of a butterfly that meets a flower that later becomes here new best friend.  The story is about a butterfly that is lonely and can never find a friend to talk to, so on a bright summer day she was flying this beautiful flower said "hello!"  And from then on they were friends and played every day.


Extension:
I would have my student create a page for a classroom book.  Each page will be about either the activities they did, field trips they went on, assemblies they seen, or things they learned in the classroom.  They would still use the Eric Carl techniques but their pages would be about what happened that year in school!