Illustration~Beatrix Potter

Lower Grades Year C

� Illustrate: to provide a publication with explanatory or decorative features.

Beatrix Potter 1866-1943

Beatrix Potter was an English writer, natural scientist, and illustrator

Potter grew up in the countryside where she and her

brother were able to have many small animals as pets

She developed a love of the natural world and spent her time drawing and painting her animal friends. Potter also learned to illustrate insects, fossils, and fungi. She became an expert on the reproduction of fungi spores and painted many microscopic details that are still used today to identify fungi.

Beatrix Potter is most recognized for her creation of

Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter wrote the stories. She was the author.

Beatrix Potter also painted the pictures. She was the illustrator.

Jemima Puddleduck is another favorite character

Do you think that Beatrix Potter had ducks on her farm?

Do you think her ducks wore clothes?

Why do you think Beatrix Potter put clothes on the animals in her

paintings?

Here is another of Beatrix Potter stories, “Ginger and Pickles”. These

characters are based on the local shopkeepers in her village. Why do

you think she changed her friends into animals in her stories?

Beatrix Potter enjoyed observing the people around her and reimagining

them as animals behaving like humans.

Lesson:For our lesson today we will draw ourselves as a small countryside animal.

#1 Think about what animal you would like to be. Kitten, puppy, mouse, bird, squirrel, rabbit, hamster, whatever you would like to be!

#2 Think about what your character is doing. Are you dancing, sleeping, drawing, playing a game, gardening, reading?

#3 Lightly draw with pencil.

#4 Color your character in with the colored pencils.

#5 Give yourself a funny name.

Here are some ways you can draw yourself as a cute little animal! Make sure to make your little pet unique with eye color, jewelry or wearing your favorite team jersey!