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Tracing
Tracing or transferring images has been a technique used by artists over many years to save time and ensure accuracy in representational art. It produces a replica of the original, as in the case of ‘hand peacock’.
Hand Peacock
Materials Required
- A4 sheet
- Poster colours
- Paint brush
- Pencil, eraser
Steps:
- Trace your hand on the paper.
- Using different coloured paints, you make a beautiful hand peacock.
- Sample template is given below
Variations:
There is no hard and fast rule that an Art activity should only follow a teaching technique. It can be the other way too!
For instance, after tracing the hand peacock a quiz can be conducted.
- What is our national bird? (Peacock)
- Whose vehicle is peacock? (Lord Subramanya)
- What do we learn from a peacock? (when cloudy, it dances – Equanimity)
- Who sports a peacock feather on His crown? (Lord Krishna)
- Never be _________ like a peacock. (proud)