♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music) - Hello, early learners, and welcome back to the art room.

We are studying Charlie Harper, and Charlie Harper wrote a lot of different children's books, And I wrote to this pomegranate kids publisher and asked if I could share this book, and I wanted to show you kind of what the art looks like.

And it's a board book that you can use with smaller children, or I enjoy a board book because you can put things over the top of it and trace over but it has a rhyming poem in it for each one, so this is kind of a neat book I'd like you to see.

Alrighty, let's sing our hello song to one another, ready?

♪ Hello nice to see you, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello nice to see you, everyone ♪ ♪ Hello to you, hello to you ♪ ♪ Hello to you, hello to me ♪ ♪ Hello nice to see you, everyone ♪ All right, Charlie Harper, Charlie Harper, I wanted you also to know about him that he just thought color combinations and textures, and even in its simplest form has art, you could still identify which bird he wanted you to know it was.

I know a lot of teachers are teaching children to draw the raccoon because the raccoons a fun one, and it hangs on the tree.

If you ever go camping, don't put your tent under a tree because I did that at Millerton Lake, I set up my tent there and the whole night the raccoons kept climbing up the tree and climbing down the tree and landing on my tent and making so much noise.

They didn't like having me below their trees, so if you have a tent, move it away from the tree, guys trying to get some shade in the summer.

All right, so today we are doing the California bird.

Does anyone know what the bird of California is?

It's the quail.

Wait till you hear the sound it makes.

When I go to my mom's house, she lives on the bike trail, her house backs up to it, and the quail are running everywhere if you get out early in the morning, just right after sunup and they run across the bike path and run across the bike path and they get their little birds and they hurry them across a path, I hardly ever see them fly.

Other birds when I ride my bike up they will fly and get up, back up into the tree, but they like being down on the ground because they can find seeds to eat.

Let's listen to what the quail sounds like.

Well, maybe it's not going to make it sound.

(quail squawk) - I think it sounds a lot like a peacock.

Have you ever heard the peacocks at the zoo?

My friend lived in a place and one night the peacocks kept making a sound like that but she thought it was a baby crying, so she popped her head out of bed and she got out of bed and the peacocks were letting her know that her house was on fire.

It was like an alarm.

So when birds make a lot of sounds like that, it's either that they're worried about being trapped by another animal or they're calling out an alarm.

So let's find out about the quail, the quail the most distinctive or the how you can really know what's a quail, it has a little plume of feathers coming out of its head.

And we're going to take a look at it now, let's look at this quail on the board.

Of course, it's a stylized, we've talked about stylized where it doesn't look exactly like a science book quail, but you know it's a quail because it has the plume.

Now, when you go to cut your plume, it's just really a circle with a tail that attaches to the front of its head, right over the beak.

And I wanted to bring some white sticky dots, and you might want to do that if you have any white sticky dots at home but I didn't know if everyone would have them, so I'm just cutting out round circles to do these feathers on its chest.

Look how he did the wings, now, the real quail doesn't have stripes going horizontally, strikes going diagonally, stripes going vertically, but I brought some paper that I'm going to draw them on there and maybe water color in between or you can color with your crayons or pastels, and you can see the neck, he stylized that too or made it more like a little art piece and he had a stripe neck.

This is that same thumb shape kind of head, and it has white feathers around it space.

And it's beak goes down, it's not a pointy out seed beak, I'm not sure why that most birds have different kinds of beaks depending on what they eat.

So let's sing the song about the quail.

♪ Which bird is this?

♪ ♪ The quail, can you see ♪ ♪ The plume that is upon its head reveal that it is he ♪ So I'm gonna bring that quail down so we can see how we're going to make it.

And how I decided would be the best way to make it is by making two leaf shapes.

So you'll see on here, the leaf shape body also has a leaf shape wing.

So I'm going to draw a leaf shape body, and a leaf shape wing I'm to add to it.

So, let's get started and I thought it would be best to make it's gray leaf shaped body.

So if you want to draw it and make it symmetrical, you may.

And I just thought if I made this curve down and make it's big leaf shaped body when I go to do the leaf shape wing, it will be easier.

So I'm making it sleeve shape body, and you know, it's just an oval or an eye shaped.

Some people call it the eye shape and I brought this kind of peach colored paper like they did.

So if I put the leaf shape body, and then I'm going to do a smaller leaf shape wing.

So again, I want to see how big I need it, that's too small, so I will make first the rectangle because you know if you start out with the shape, the size that you need it, it makes it better.

That's still a little too big, I adjust and readjust just like when we're putting things on.

I see that it will fit on there, so now I'm going to do the corners off, and make this leaf shape wing.

And that will fit on there.

I'm going to start with the wing, maybe I'll put the body on here so it doesn't roll around.

Stay, get this on here and put it on my background.

There's my leaf shaped body, and I look at the inspiration to see how it's sitting up kind of like that.

And I might put its head on right now too, so that I can get the wing, 'cause the wing is what we're going to decorate quite a bit of decorating, so I want to make sure I have time to show you that.

Now, right here is where the head is going to go, so I put it there and say, is that too big?

Maybe a little bit, but I'm going to put my thumb there.

Maybe even this many fingers and use my pencil and gently trace it so that I know how far down that little gray scarf goes and up around its head and I'll go down and it's going to go down here for black.

So I can even put that little curve line, so I know where to put the black.

So, let's do this.

It's just traced around my three fingers and I'll show you what I made the head look like, just like that, so I can put that on there.

I think that's a good shape.

Now, in order to make the black part I think I'll just color it on there because that's so much easier than trying to cut and paste all that part.

So I'm going to put the black cap on, and so you can see I'll put it down a little bit.

I'm going to draw a straight across horizontal line just like the one that's across his head go around it and color in that little cap.

If you're doing this on your table, you'll see, I just made a mark on my little table.

Make sure you have newspaper under yours, I didn't put newspaper under mine but this is just the back of this and it's okay but don't get it on your table at home.

There's mine, nice piece of that, and I will go inside there for its face and I will color it in.

And when I glue it on I can color on its beak and the plume, so let's get this part going.

I probably should use one of my bigger pens and not use this little one for it.

Oh, this one's so big, it will make it so easy to color it in with just stripe down, very good.

Okay, I'm going to glue it on here so you can see that the plume is the important part to include.

Glue around the edge, put it on top, and I will add the plume right now, so we don't forget just which bird this is.

So it has a standing area right here, I'm going to make up its little feather, go up, make a circle that I color in and then go back down a little bit, and down there.

Now I know that he has that little beak that comes out where it's white like that, and that is the beginning of mine.

And you know how they make the legs go forward.

He has one leg forward and one leg back I'm going to turn this to you so you can see and get my wing out.

And how they did this was they did cut the wing down the middle and I can divide it into pieces and it can be some are going to be striped this way, some are going to go diagonally, some will go horizontally, and just make the stripes like that.

I can make the ones down here, come out like this.

When I add my wing, I can add color to it later 'cause you know our time gets done so fast here and I want to make sure you see this.

I'll put his wings on his back like this, and when I go to do coloring you will see the places where it's different and I will finish this and show it to you afterwards.

I do need to put his eye on and some of his feathers on his chest are just white circles I'm cutting in half to put on here for its feathers on his chest.

Now it has an orange chest on the inspiration one, but I am just going to keep it gray 'cause when I've seen the ones on the bike trail, I don't see any orange feathers on them but I don't look up close, and I don't have to make mine just like Charlie Harpers, I can make my own however I would like.

Now what I would do if I were you, is use your white pastel to color in this part around his face and make it show up.

And then we also need to make the ring around his eyes so we can see.

Boys and girls, if you got started with your quail, you can finish it up and maybe you'll send me a picture of yourself working on it or with you with it and it's finished because let me bring out these books again and tell you, if you send us your address and a picture we can send something to you.

Well, I think I'll just keep adding some feathers and get ready to say goodbye to you.

♪ Goodbye, see you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye, see you next time, everyone ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you, goodbye to you ♪ ♪ Goodbye to you, goodbye to me ♪ See you tomorrow, boys and girls, thanks for joining me.

(upbeat music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time can learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat music)