The Wonderful Art of Drawing Horses Lesson Plan

Art Theme of Horses - Equine Art

Featuring the Piece of work of Béatrice Bulteau

Image beneath is a vase from Beatrice Bulteau. Her wish is for teachers to teach their students about beauty and to appreciate one of the most beautiful animals, the horse. As you lot can see, this vase is adorned with horses.  Retrieve virtually how you lot tin can use the work of Beatrice Bulteau with your students - or any of the artists - works of art listed beneath. This can be a meaningful interdisciplinary lesson for your students. To begin any unit, yous might want to try Maggie White'southward Horse Awareness Test.

[ INTERDISCIPLINARY | HORSE LESSON PLANS ]

Béatrice Bulteau is fascinated with horses. See her volume Magic Horses. Béatrice Bulteau - Built-in in France, now living in Portugal. Horses in watercolor, prints, ceramics and more than.

Deborah Butterfield Horses at Greg Kucera Gallery | More on Deborah Butterfield

Trail of Painted Ponies: Life size horses painted by Native American artists and others.

Robert Vavra - Contemporary photographer - beautiful work! Robert Vavra is a horse photographer

Bev Doolittle has many good ones (her 2004 calendar has several of my favorites)
Bev Doolittle prints | more images
Many more online, also.

The American Horse, Nina Akamu, dedicated 1999. Nina is recognized as one of the about talented animal sculptures of her generation. The sculpture sits at the DeVos Van Andel Piazza (named later on Steve Van Andel and Doug DeVos of Amway) at the Meijer Gardens. Click on all the images for the full size view.

Additional images online for Equestrian Fine art

Saint on Horseback Getty
Batak horses
African terra-cotta
From Republic of ghana - [Archive] A gold weight
More than from Africa
Yoruba
From Benin
National Gallery of African Art

Horses on Parade - Several links - Street Art Around the Globe

See Linda Radak'due south "Rock On" Horse Sculpture - She has some all white casts bachelor that she is willing to sell for her cost ($l.00) to any art instructor who wants to paint your own version of Horses on Parade. Email Linda for details. Encounter more piece of work on her site | Wonderful Fine art Dolls!

LOTS more equus caballus art out in that location. Add to this list with your favorites. I accept a Oaxacan animal sculpture lesson that is adaptable....an African abstract brute lesson that is adaptable (ceramic animal lesson, too)

I had planned a "Year of the Equus caballus" sculpture for my center schoolhouse students and had all sorts of sculptures (images) through the ages - along with two-D works to show via PowerPoint. I had many equestrian effigy sculptures to prove as well. I was going to practice a sculpture lesson (wire and foil tooling) with Butterfield and Calder as chief influences.

The Horses of Chris McConnell

Says Chris, "The piece (Below) is located at the Ruby-red Maple Inn in Burton OH.  Weighing in at 1900 Lbs and a measurement of 16 and a one-half hands, it's a piddling bigger than a normal equus caballus. During the 3.5 months it took to build I gathered parts and pieces form a local junk yard- then the whole thing is fabricated recycled metal.  The metallic is of a heavy thickness which was aptitude by hand.  My intentions for this horse was to build it very minimal.  The lines in the steel create gaps- these spaces create their own aesthetic.  The decision for the gaps was generated past studying Asian philosophy.  Another intention for this work is the line.  How can one apply the line to create a very organic form that is in motion?  I knew if I could get the outer line perfect the course would fall into place.  Some of the things I used were: Truck leaf springs, Propane tank, 3 air tanks that would be used to fill you truck or car tire, I will allow y'all discover the rest."

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

Patty Knott sent me a great site PBS "Horse and Rider" -- that has links to many bang-up sites. You could get lost in horses for days! Merely wow - the interdisciplinary opportunities to connect!

I am so jealous of you in the classroom who can do these things and make learning so much FUN! Horses chronicle to art - scientific discipline and social studies - lots of opportunity to introduce cultures - literature connections, too.

Wild Horses - An American Romance [Archive] - This is one link that fascinated Judy Decker.

The American Academy of Equine Art- Many artsts' work on display

This is what Scout Written report had to say:
This Web site is the online companion to the recent PBS NATURE documentary "Horse and Rider," which "explores a fascinating partnership between animal and human." Click on For Teachers on the main Web page to find an interdisciplinary lesson program for grades ix-12. The lesson, titled Creating the "Perfect" Horse, has students written report equus caballus biology and behavior, explore the reasons why unlike equus caballus breeds were developed, and analyze inquiry findings to determine if breeding an all-purpose equus caballus is practical or even possible. The lesson programme provides downloadable worksheets, and the principal Spider web page contains some fun special features, including video clips. This site is also reviewed in the September 19, 2003 NSDL Life Sciences Study. [RS] (Copyright Spotter Report 2004)

Cabin Creek past Deborah Butterfield, Statuary, 1999. This sculpture is located at the Meijer Gardens near Grand Rapids, Michigan. Click on the images for total size. Pictures by Ken Rohrer © 2013

HORSE LESSON PLANS AND IDEAS:

"Exquisite Horse" Browse this site and come with your own lesson program. Create fanciful, imaginary head and tails of horses or any animal. Invent new animals/beasties. Have educatee make a class flip volume.

Watercolor using the work of Béatrice Bulteau - with experimental techniques. Come across Water Media Techniques by Linda Fields or Watercolour Techniques from Sue Galos

Hidden Pictures (using art of Bev Doolittle) past Bunki Kramer (tweak to accept more of a horse accent)

Equus caballus Sculptures - Stick Horses from Sue Stevens and more

Introductory Lesson - "Horse Awareness Exam" by Maggie White

From Maggie: I've washed this with my high school and fine art didactics students. It drives home the concept of their CONCEPTION of an object (what they think something looks like) and their PERCEPTION (what they actually observe).

Here is the handout that she wrote up for this practice.

THE H.A.T. (Equus caballus Awareness Test)

This is a cracking first-day-of-school icebreaker (commonly takes two periods). It'due south fun, teaches them about contours and proportions, and helps demonstrate the importance of ascertainment when learning to describe. This is an adaptation of a "exam" developed past one of my graduate professors, Warren Anderson. His was called the Southward.A.T. (Saguaro Awareness Examination). Since nosotros take no saguaros but plenty of horses around here, I adjusted it to something the students are very familiar with. You lot'll have to do the same (their sneakers? a local landmark? a school jitney?). Set up slides showing various aspects of the object, or a good transparency from a articulate photo. Work from a photograph, not some other creative person's rendition.

Give each student a piece of paper and ask them to draw, to the all-time of their ability, the subject you've chosen. The entire object should be shown (i.e., the horse can't be standing in alpine grass or deep water) and should fill as much of the paper as possible. Requite them xx-thirty minutes for this.  When time'south upwards, they should put downwards their pencils while you evidence them the slides and point out specific characteristics of the object. I introduce the terms conception and perception: oft, our concept of what an object looks like does not stand for to what it actually looks similar. Drawing is largely a matter of learning how to really find what is there. If the actual object is not bachelor, they should piece of work from photographs. Other artists' work may be stylized or inaccurate.

I show them how to use their pencils to measure out (like "existent artists"), estimate proportions, and judge curves and angles compared to the straight pencils. They measure the proportions of their own drawings--no erasing and correcting!--as well. The visual analysis takes another 20-30 minutes. They and so turn their papers over and re-draw the object; this time, the transparency remains projected then they can observe the horse and measure the proportions and contours (y'all could likewise have color photographs to put out at the tables - horse in a multifariousness of poses). This requires quite a chip more time than the first drawing. The divergence betwixt the two drawings is usually pretty dramatic. I always save the drawings to hand dorsum at the finish of the year, which gives them a skillful express mirth at what non-expert artists they used to exist.

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