Geometry in Nature

Here are two Everyday Matters challenges. This week's challenge #166, Draw a fish and two older challenges, #31, something you collect, combined with #78, draw a souvenir. These are both done with graphite in my small hand.book journal.

(I know I skipped last week's challenge #165, which was to draw the front of your house. When I had the time during daylight hours, it rained. I am not willing to work from a photograph for these challenges as my purpose in doing these is to gain practice drawing from life. So I will do a drawing of the front of my house when weather and time permits. I promise.)
So that is how I came to draw the shell. Wanting very much to do some drawing in my small journal I grabbed this shell figuring it must fit some challenge. I do collect shells. Although not an organized collection I have a lot of them. And they are souvenirs of sunny beach days.The starfish happened to be the closest fish-like thing I had available to draw. I really enjoyed drawing these objects from nature. So much so that now I'm thinking of doing some kind of series. Last fall we did a unit on 'geometry in nature' in our little homeschool. Kiddo and I spent an entire morning walking around the yard looking through our jeweler's loops finding triangles in spider webs, rectangular shapes in the structure of leaves, star shapes, ovals and circles in flowers. It was fascinating.