I was a busy bee last week, and by that I mean I was a bee for Halloween and I was busy. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much time to get into a detailed drawing or painting for my inquiry. I did, however, get crafty with some halloween-related projects.
I carved a pumpkin of a spooky bat. In my undergrad, I did a project on vesper bats which are part of a family of insect-eating microbats. There are over 400 species of just this one family of bats! BC is home to around 15 species of bats. Considering the crazy diversity of bat species, we are lacking in bats. I found a really great resource on local bat species on the Royal BC Museum website. There is a learning pathway available with multimodal educational sections. I would totally introduce this resource to a science class. Below I added one video from the ‘watch’ section of the learning pathway.
The other artsy thing I did was paint a headband for my bee costume. I painted some anatomically incorrect bees with only 2 body segments. Insect bodies are divided into 3 parts in real life, but for the sake of artistic representation, we will let it slide.
In short, my progress this week was lacking, but I did apply animal art to some multimedia pieces (i.e. pumpkins and fashion pieces), so you could say I expanded my artistic horizons.
Wow! I love how you included Halloween – bees are soooo important and so are you!