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Oil Pastel Houses Inspired by Marc Chagall
BY CHERYL TROWBRIDGE

Oil pastel houses with floating fishStudents enjoy creating these quirky street-scapes inspired by Russian artist, Marc Chagall. There’s just something really fun about crooked buildings and random things flying through the air!

Materials:

12×18 black construction paper
#2 Pencil with pink eraser (the eraser is handy for “sketching” your layout!)
Oil Pastels
“Wet wipes” for clean up
Examples of the paintings of Marc Chagall (may be found in books, calendars or on the internet)
Directions:

Talk about the life and art of Marc Chagall and show examples of his paintings. Note the bright colors, dreamlike quality, unique sense of perspective and occasional floating people and objects! Find examples of the influence of various art styles and movements in his paintings.
Using the pink eraser on the end of your pencil, sketch the basic elements of your composition. Begin with a curving line that goes across your paper horizontally.
Add houses on this line, using simple geometric shapes, but no rulers! Add a few simple bush and tree shapes. Add something floating in the sky, if you like!
Next, use a white oil pastel to lightly trace over your eraser lines.
Now fill in your painting with at least two layers of color everywhere. Don’t use any black yet…. we’re saving that for last! Try layering with white to brighten an area.
Make sure your entire paper is covered with at least two layers of color. Then outline each separate shape with black oil pastel. (Have students raise their hand to get permission to outline – check to see that they’ve used at least two layers of color everywhere.)
Sign your name with black oil pastel in the lower right corner.
After collecting artwork and supplies, give each student a “wet wipe“, reminding them to clean their hands first and then their desk.
While students are working….

Ask students to compare working from their memory or imagination to looking at their subject as they draw it. Which way do they prefer? Is one way more difficult than the other? Why?
Ask students which colors they layered to achieve their favorite areas of color. Share color “recipes”!
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He was associated with several different art movements, including Cubism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Surrealism, but he identified most closely with his Jewish heritage. His faith in God played a huge role in his art. He was known for his dreamlike compositions, preferring to work from his imagination and memory, rather than from nature or from life. Chagall was successful in many artistic ventures, including painting, book illustration, stained glass, stage set design, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Chagall enjoyed both fame and fortune in his lifetime.

Oil pastel houses with floating dog chasing cat

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I read this nice article thought would share.

Where do birds go to die?*

Are the Flying free birds a Crown Creation of nature? Where do birds go to die?

Strange questions, isn't it, but the answers are even stranger, or probably there is no answer at all.

One fine morning, seated at my favorite tea spot, overlooking the evergreen banyan tree against the background of the pleasantly warm early morning sun, watching my avian friends, a mix of parakeets, sparrows and Mark Twain’s favorite friends the Indian crows. All of them permanent occupants of this peaceful tree colony; the following thought just popped into my head. I have been watching my feathered friends, chirping, cooing and quarreling o’ so sweetly ever so often *but I have never seen any one of them ever lying dead either under that tree or anywhere in the vicinity or our residential colony or surprisingly even all over the world.*

The world is populated with flocks of birds, but strangely, one never sees bodies of dead birds lying around. Rarely one does see bird remains left behind by a careless cat or a pigeon killed in flight by the sharp kite string during the makar sankrat kite festival. But, lying around dead from a natural cause? Never! So do birds live forever? When no answer comes to mind, what does one do? Well for many unanswered questions one does ask Google! That’s exactly what I did. *Guess what? Google had no logical answer!*

To find the answer to my question, I browsed bird watching sites skimmed through ornithology resources but with no luck; just vague and funny answers. Then I came across a very interesting article on ‘Dying Pattern of birds” and cited below was a controversial theory by Late Cork Bishop Cornelius Lucey that begins with the Question: “Where do birds go to die?” Bishop challenged anyone to produce evidence of a bird that had died from a natural cause. Bishop Lucey distinguished death from natural causes and death by predator, or death through car accident. Death through accidental or deliberate means resulted in mangled bodies we all have seen, but it is a fact, dead birds are so difficult to locate that scientists use birders to help track population in order to estimate number of annual avian deaths. The Bishop, who had an in-depth knowledge of the life-patterns of bees, conducted the study of birds, with the same gusto. In the case of bees, the Bishop explained that bees died, by rising, into the “upper air’, and there they literally were destroyed through a natural disintegration process.

After the study of birds he concluded that as birds had an inner sensory device, which told them when to migrate and like the bees they too had an inner sensory device which told them when it was time to die, or when their life cycle was complete. On the premonition of death, they too like the bees rise up higher and higher till they disintegrate in the upper air. This unpublished theory is the closest answer to my query. This triggers the following thought: If we go by the Bishop’s hypothesis on the dying pattern of birds for which as of date there is no counter solid scientific theory, then it would not be out of place to conclude that birds are at a higher plane than humans since the birds actually KNOW when they are going to die, something that even the so-called evolved, aware and intelligent human race does not know! That when a bird knows that it has lived enough, seen enough, it can happily leave its body at will by flying high-up and just disintegrating; no age related aches, pains of suffering.

Wow! Our feathered friends seem to be more evolved than humans. They live that freedom we all would die for; freedom to go where they want, when they want, cross all borders sans passport, the power to detach themselves from the young ones as soon as they are ready to take their own course and now it seems they know when they will die and where to die. Real cool! They can attain moksha at will.

*Thereby lingers the thought : Is Man, the self-proclaimed most evolved living being really at the apex of evolution pyramid?*

Or please tell me where do the birds go to die....🤔

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