4Sarah



This bird is a robin and the reason why I chose this bird is because I have drew and painted the American robin before and I found it to be very fun and enjoyable without having too much difficulty. So I decided hey why don't I try the robin for a class project on a certain amount of time to see how it would go. I find this bird very beautiful when ever I see it flying outside I just really like this bird and thought it would be fun to paint.

The problems I had mostly were the feet on the bird or the legs or however you refer them as I couldn't get it just right the way I wanted to. But Mrs. Ruggles helped me understand how they are supposed to look and also for me the back ground was kind of tough to do as well. I wanted the paint to flow on the paper but it didn't look like that when I tried to make the light blue background in the end it all worked out and went together. The chest of the bird was pretty challenging too because I know that the chest of a robin is a dark orange almost looking like a red so I had to mix some colors to get the color just right.

I think that my bird is ok maybe not the best bird I have ever saw but I tried my best to get at least a decent piece of work done, I thought that this project was very fun to do the making of the paper birds was really fun. I think that the painting was a little more fun to do. This project isn't impossible but it isn't easy you kind of have to have a nag for painting to be able to do the detail work but really anyone can do it.



The type of bird that I chose to make was the American Robin because I believe that the American Robin is a beautiful bird and it wasn't too hard so I figured that it was the perfect bird for me. This bird was one of my first choices to make but i was also interested in doing the barn owl because of how beautiful it is and how it's gracefulness shows when it flies. But I didn't just wanted to do something typical. People living in michigan are normally hunters and most people would have chose to either do a duck or goose or maybe even an owl so I wanted to do something different. Plus the colors of the American robin bird are so interesting so that is why I chose to do the American Robin.

The challenging part about the bird was for one thing making the bird was pretty tough to do because you have to get the body and the shape of the bird just right and I had to look at multiple different pictures to determine what was the perfect way to shape the bird. Also The painting was pretty difficult now most people would think to just paint it and do nothing more then jut paint it but there was also some detail that had to be done to the birds also in order to make it look realistic but I tried my best to do that but it was the hardest part of the bird. The wings of the birds have detail in them but that is almost it just because of how hard it is I didn't even have enough time to do all of the detail so I had to do just solid painting.

Overall I think I did a pretty good job on the project I don't think they are terrible but I don't think they are good either but all I know is, is that I tried my hardest and to me that is all that matters. I probably would have tried to do a better job if I had at least one more week to do it. I feel I could have done a better job maybe if I have tried harder but I only had so much time to do it in and had very limited resources. This was a very fun project to do I enjoyed it very much it took a lot of problem solving to do and trial and error. I would love to do this project again if I could.



The Robin lives just about anywhere but is commonly found in ROBIN Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. For winter it goes from lower Canada to Florida onto Mexico.

Its diet consists of invertebrates such as beetle grubs, and caterpillars. As well as fruits and berries.

The birds musical song sounds like whistles such as cheerily, cheerio.

Its size is about 6 to 8 inches long and pretty wide for a bird it's length. The Robin has an orange chest but the males tend to have a white ring around its eyes but the females are a little darker and have a smaller beak.