How to Draw a Cardinal

How to Draw a Cardinal (back view)

Courtesy of Tabitha from TheLostSock

Cardinal (side view) from

Unknown source 

Below www.cartooncritters.com

http://www.cartooncritters.com/drawcardinal.htm

Below www.dragoart.com

http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/13314/1/1/how-to-draw-a-red-bird,-red-cardinal-bird.htm

Informative & historical instruction

Of a side view Cardinal... 

http://martynystrom.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/draw-and-learn-cardinal/

Red Bird on a Wire...

Tuesday Art

1st & kinder

Birds congregate on wires while migrating...

Draw the wires  and red birds migrating.

My classes are on a Cardinal Unit 

(see here; http://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2015/01/cardinal-art.html)

As we arrive back from the break. I am going to have a sub for 3 lower level classes and needed a filler. This is perfect!!! Could be done with red ink and thumb prints too. 

1. Draw 2 vertical plea on each side of paper.

Add three short horizontal poles on each pole. 

3. Fill in with black. 

5. Draw 4-6 swooping horizontal lines going back and forth between poles. 

6. Draw birds. First start with red ovals for the bodies.

Draw in black circles for eyes. 

Draw in black triangles for beaks. 

Make a black filled in circle around eyes. 

Fill in beak and body with red while leaving eyes white. 

Add head and tail feathers with red lines. 

Add legs with black. 

Fill in creative with details desired... 

Cardinal Art

Since we are the Krahn Elementary cardinals, I thought it would only be appropriate to use our art skills to show our school pride and learn more about our bird. There are two artists that I noticed using these red birds as their subjects, Charley Harper & Strawberry Luna. 

Above- Charley Harper prints

Above- Strawberry Luna's fall Cardinal

I have adapted the subject of cardinals to fit grades K-5 below...

Kindergarten & 1st grade

Single cut Birch Bird

Bluhm's 1st graders

(Sarah, Ally, Reighlyn &jack)

More Bluhm's first grade

(Kattie, Trevor, Monte & roman)

Sophia from Bluhm's class

Mrs. McGinley's 1st grade class

(Myles, angel, Allison, & madi)

More Mrs. McGiley's...

(Vanshika, anonymous Cardinal, hailey, Sam, Jocelyn)

Simble's 1st grade class

(Callie, Musa, Aidan, Sophia, Nathalia)

Mrs. Parker's class

(Caleb, Aayan, Miya, Lauren, Alexis, ria)

Mrs. Smee's first grade 

(Anonymous Cardinal, JoJo, Zeke, Logan)

Mrs. Smee (Melanie & Reggie)

Step by step pictures...

2nd grade

Double Cut Birch Bird

Unknown image from ffffound.com

Maisy, 2nd grade

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Mrs. meleski's 3rd grade (below)

Summer, Evy, Devyn & Paul P. 

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Mrs. MAy's class 3rd grade (below)

Seth, Albin, Adriana & Sydnie

Step by step pictures...

(They are real "head turners" lol. Sorry😁)

3rd grade

Double drawn Birch Bird

(Head turners again... Sorry)

Step Two

Mrs. Johnson's 2nd grade (below)

Blues: Israel, Gavin, Anonymous & Evan

Multi: Maisy, Colten, Alyah & Dylan 

Mrs. Dickinson's 3rd grade

Below: (Megan, Amanda, Michael, Cadence (above too) Izabella, & Elijaj)

More mrs. Dickinson's

(Erick, Elizabeth, Avee, Anonymous Artist, Sean, & Ava)

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Mrs. Craig's 3rd grade Monday class

Kelly, Zamora, Daniel, Whitney, London, & Destiny

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Mrs. Fortner's 2nd grade monday class

Ethan, Robbie, Adeline, Anonymous Artist (on green)

More Fortner (below)

Emmi, Brianna, Maci, & Tam

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Mrs. Wildt's class 2nd grade

Sean, Christian R., Kate, Gianna

(Below)

More Wildt...(below)

Callie, Maci, Casey, Riley, 

and Ihshaal (single)

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Mrs. Jamison's 2nd grade class 

Michelle, Sebastian, Caleb, Michael c., Zoey, & Abby

Mrs. White's 2nd grade

Michael, Channing, Dona, Isaac

(Below)

More Mrs. white's class (below)

Malik, Crystel "Gabby", Mikaela, Bryce 

Mrs. Groves (Warne's) 2nd grade class

Kayla, Zobia, fisher, Cheylah, Diego, & Gisele

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4th & 5th grade

Mrs. Bosquez's 5th grade

Hayden (below)

Alyssa, jaden, gabby, Isabel (below)

Daniel, samara & Dana (below)

  Mrs. McMillian's class

Omar

Ava & kadin

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Mrs. Markowitz's 4th grade class (below) 

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Mrs. Kearly's 5th grade class (below)

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Mrs. Maddox's 5th grade class

Morgan, Emily, Vanessa & Christina 

Katie, Braden, Lydia & Hanna

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Mrs. Do's 4th grade class (below)

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Mrs. Celestine's class

(Below) Andrew & jayla

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Mrs. Johnson's 4th grade

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Mrs. Blankenships 5th grade

Olivia, Amy, hailey & anonymous

(Above)

Aden, Kamy, Sana & Logan

(Above)

Ahmad, alejandro & ayden 

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Black, white & Red all over

Cardinal Doodle 

Waren Barefield's RedBird album cover

Teacher Example, Tabitha Seaton

After tracing pencil with Sharpie and adding details...

After adding shadow with pencil and blending with a q-tip!

5th grade

Cardinal in all Seasons

(Inspired by Strawberry Luna's Cardinal prints)

Other compositions based on other step by step drawing instructions...

How to draw Cardinals; go here

http://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2015/01/how-to-draw-cardinal.html

Sub lesson here...

http://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2015/01/red-bird-on-wire.html