APRIL BLACKBOARD CALENDAR

APRIL BLACKBOARD CALENDAR 

By JOHN T. LEMOS  

BOTH, Louisiana and Mississippi have chosen the magnolia as a floral emblem. The flower is artistic in contour, and possesses a delightful fragrance. There are a number of varieties of magnolias, but the most beautiful is that known as the magnolia "grandiflora," which often grows seventy-five feet high. 

To sketch this panel, first block in all the larger areas, as the calendar and the flower forms. If light outlines of large ellipses are drawn and the flowers sketched within, the drawing will be found quite easy.

The petals should be colored a creamy white, and touches of gray green added in the shadows. The pistil of the flower is colored an orange brown, with the circular forms outlined in light brown. The stamens are a deep yellow. Color the leaves a deep green, with light brown on the undersides. Color the twig brown.

The outside border may be done in red-orange, emerald green, or orange-yellow.   

The Coloring page is used as the classrom decoration for the Blackboard, as the coloring page for Nature Studies, Seat work lesson, Art, Drawing. Geography, Civic Education. 

References:

1.NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS , April 1929