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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Bast

     Bast, also known as Bastet, is an Egyptian goddess for cats, fertility, art, music, dance and lots more, and when I say lots, I mean more than a dozen other qualities. Her Greek name is Artemis, goddess of the hunt. At the top of this paragraph, you can see how to write Bast in heiroglypics. Her name means "devouring lady."

     New paragraph down here! I have a secret for you. Shhhh. We don't want Sekmet to hear. I bet you're wondering who Sekhmet is. Sekhmet is Bast's evil twin sister. Together they creat a balance between chaos and order.

    

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Squirrel


This is done with charcoal pencil. I was practicing shading and tone.

Nez Perce Design

This is a traditional design of the Nez Perce tribe. They used geometric shapes for decorations. I made this with chalk pastels and glitter glue.

Lakota-Sioux Winter Counts Calendar

This is a Winter Counts Calendar of my life. I picked the most important event of each year of my life and drew a symbol to represent it. The first year was the house. We moved from one house to another. The second year I learned to talk, so I drew a mouth. The third year I learned to read. The next year we adopted my sister, Addie. After that I joined the swim team. Then I wrote my first book Trapped. The next year I learned to ride horses with my friend, Carol. This year I joined the Angel Chorus at church. 

Amen-Ra


This is a picture of Amen-Ra, the Egyptian god of the sun. I drew it with marker, crayon and watercolor. I learned that watercolor washes better over crayon than marker.

Kokopelli

 This is my picture of Kokopelli, the Hopi god for agriculture and fertility. I drew it with crayon, marker, and watercolor. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed drawing it.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Pterodactyl

     Pterodactyl means "winged finger." Pterodactyls had a wingspan up to 40 feet long! It takes me 13 steps to walk 20 feet. So, that's .... whoah!.... I can't even think about it! Pterodactyls flew around and with their keen eyesight caught their Thanksgiving feast.

     They lived in the late Mesozoic Period. They were carnivores who ate things like fish, lizards, insects and mollusks. They killed their prey by swooping down like hawks and grabbing  the prey and flying back up. The Mesozoic Period served a great lunch. Yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Pterodactyls ruled the sky. They had no enemies.

Sacagawea


This is Scagawea with her baby. I did this on a stretched canvas with acrylic. I used a grid to do the underdrawing, before I painted.

Triceratops

     The first thing you might want to know is what "Triceratops" means. It means  "three horned face".  Full grown Triceratops can get up to about 30 feet long and 10 feet tall thats about twice the size of a rhinoceros! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are about 6 to 12 tons. That's way more than a full size van! Triceratops is a three horned giant.

     They lived in the Late Cretaceous Period. Period. They were herbivores who ate plants from the cretaceous period, like cyad, green thicket, ferns, conifers, palms, and even gastrolith (a certain type of rock.) They lived in an environment perfect for them.

    The Triceratops enemy was the Tyrannosaurs Rex. The T Rex means Tyrant Lizard king, but that is a whole other essay. Triceratops hurt its enemies by charging and inserting its horns (two long ones above the eye and a short one below) in the enemy's flesh. Triceratops was a dinosaur protected by its horns from T-Rex.  

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