Relaxing Patterns: Shells

How to Draw - No5: Parrot

The parrot has 3 main sections: body, tail and wing. The beak and legs are made up of smaller parts put together . You need to look carefully at them and try to get the shapes fairly right.
The colours can be done as in the coloured pic or any other way you like. The branch he is standing on is easy enough. Most of the lines in this pic are curved just a little.

How to Draw - No4: Guitar

The body of the guitar is actually made by drawing two 3's. You may need to practise the back-to-front 3 a bit firstly. All the other lines are easy enough. A few light lines can be added at the end to indicate the strings, but use a thin pen/pencil otherwise they won't fit and will look too messy.

Patterns to Colour

Here are some patterns that are good for colouring, which is a nice restful activity, for children and adults.
Play some music that you like whilst colouring, for a peaceful pastime!


You can right click on each pattern, and choose either print or save.

How to Draw -No 2: Truck

     The truck is made up of two shapes. The lines are mainly straight, not any curves apart from the wheels of course.  You could also do a truck with just a plain rectangle shape at the back, and bigger wheels too if you like. 

How to Draw - No1: Teddy Bear

When you look carefully at the teddy you can see
 that it is made up of
a number of different shapes.
The picture is made by drawing these shapes,
not by drawing an outline of the whole teddy.

 Most of the lines are curves.
Do each section in turn to build up the picture.
The bear's tummy is a funny sort of shape,
but that is because the arms and legs fit into it.



The arms and legs are odd shapes too, but
when you have
it all put together they look quite ok.

If you right click on the sample pics, you can save them
and then print them out if you want have them on paper.

Mozart

Here is a selection of beautiful music by Mozart. In the some clips, there are some lovely images as well to match the music.

Piano concerto: a slow movement:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I

Clarinet Concerto: a famous piece, with three sections:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSUqYbWSOkQ 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtCPLIMYtc&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYCFg-8vTU

Flute and Harp Concerto: first and second movements:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGQOBvVINv4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI6mNal8cjw

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