Greek Peacocks 3rd Grade

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Greek Peacocks 3rd Grade
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The Greek myth of the Peacock Feather.

• The peacock is mentioned in Greek mythology. It
  was the bird of Hera, queen of the Gods. One myth
  told of Argus, Hera's hundred eyed giant whose
  job it was to spy on Zeus and discover his
  trysting places. When he discovered Zeus with the
  maiden Io, Zeus changed Io into a cow to escape
  Hera's wrath. Hera saw through the disguise and
  requested the cow as a gift, and Zeus could not
  refuse her. She entrusted Argus to watch Io day
  and night so she could not be changed back to her
  true form. Zeus then sent Hermes, messenger of
  the gods and god of thieves and trickery, to
  recover Io. Knowing that he could not escape
  detection from Argus' 100 eyes, Hermes began to
  play sleepy tunes on his flute and one by one
  Argus' eyes closed and he fell asleep. Hermes
  then cut off his head. When Hera found Argus, she
  removed his one-hundred eyes and placed them on
  the tail of her favorite bird, the peacock.

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We will make a peacock painting

• Lets look closely at the feather.
• What colors do you see?
• What interesting shapes can you see?

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Only the male birds have the colorful tails. The
female birds are called Peahens!
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The feather is repeated again and again on a
birds tail. In ART this is called REPETITION
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Lets draw out the feather centers first on your
paper.

• They will be painted blue.

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Next we will circle them with a turquoise OVAL

• And then with an outline of yellow.

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Your final feather then will have fringed sides.
(but I cant make them on the computer have to
paint!!!!)
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The head and neck of your peacock will be cut out
of paper. We will make that in Day 2 of this
project.