Illustrations for the story theme and bug
Tyoma and Zhuchka
The story of how a boy named Tyoma saves a dog, Zhuchka, who has fallen into a deep well, is included as a separate chapter in the story “The Childhood of Tyoma” by the Russian writer Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky. But this story is such a complete, complete literary work that the story “Tyoma and the Bug” in Russian literature is traditionally published as a separate book. And they are addressed to children of primary school age, although the entire story “Tema’s Childhood” is recommended for reading at middle school age.
“The Darkness and the Bug” is a poignant story about the soul of a little man, in which the first shoots of kindness and pity are just beginning to appear. This is a story about the emergence of compassion for one's neighbor, and its influence on raising a child is difficult to overestimate.
In the “New Old Books” series, we published this story with illustrations by the talented Soviet and Russian artist David Shterenberg. The illustrations are black and white, but this is precisely the case when the absence of color is a definite plus. The artist’s clear graphics create a sense of documentation of the events described on the pages of the book, and the expressiveness of the graphic images makes the reader empathize even more with what is happening.
Let us repeat the main thing: the story “Tyoma and the Bug” is for children 7-9 years old. The story “Tema's Childhood” is for children 10-14 years old. Give children the books they need on time.
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Drawing insects with children is an interesting activity from both an artistic and educational point of view. After all, the small world of cockroach insects is very complex and diverse. To begin with, insects are very ancient inhabitants of planet Earth. They appeared long before not only humans, but also before dinosaurs - 450 million years ago. And how many different and dissimilar creatures are hidden under the simple word “insect”! There are butterflies and dragonflies, ants and grasshoppers, bees and beetles. What can I say! Today, more than a million species are known. And every year scientists find and describe another seven and a half thousand. And these amazing creatures live in all corners of the globe, occupying all ecological niches. They even live in Antarctica!
But let's get back to drawing. We offer you a step-by-step lesson on drawing beetles with children. They are ideally suited for depiction by young artists - simple, well-divided forms of the body. The main thing, as with any step-by-step drawing, try to refrain from mindlessly copying the sample. Discuss the shape of the beetle with the children, “guess” together that the beetle looks like a circle or an oval. And the rest (legs, head) is, as it were, “attached” additionally to it.
A simple beetle - step-by-step drawing of insects with children
This simple beetle is a generalized, collective image. You can even draw it with preschoolers. The base of the beetle is an oval. It does not belong to any specific species. So to speak, a beetle in general. You can give it “individual” features using a variety of coloring. So in the picture below, a bronze beetle is made with a blue pencil, and a striped and bright Colorado potato beetle is made with watercolors. Although, from a scientific point of view, the anatomy of both the first and second, to put it mildly, is not flawless.
A simple beetle - step-by-step drawing of insects with children
Scarab beetle - step-by-step drawing of insects with children
The scarab beetle is an insect to which I attribute mystical, sacred properties. In ancient Egypt, the sacred scarab was a symbol of the sun, its movement across the sky from east to west and personified the god of creation Khepri. You can draw such a beetle with children aged 8 years and older.
Scarab beetle - step-by-step drawing of insects with children
The beetle in our drawing is stylized, but you can color it more naturalistically. Or, on the contrary, you can give it an even more symbolic and decorative look. Here are some ideas for inspiration.
Stag beetle - step-by-step drawing of insects with children
The basis for drawing this beetle is not ovals, but rectangles. You can draw such a handsome man with younger schoolchildren. But, of course, they are unlikely to be able to paint the stag beetle so naturalistically.
Stag beetle - step-by-step drawing of insects with children
May bug - step-by-step drawing of insects with children
But this beetle is more complicated and kids won’t be able to cope with it. We can recommend trying to reproduce it with children 10-12 years old.
May bug - step-by-step drawing of insects with children
The sick man lies in his crib and asks the nanny where his beloved dog Zhuchka is. The nanny says that someone threw her alive into an abandoned well. Tyoma immediately began to come up with a plan to save the pet, and imperceptibly fell asleep.
How Tyoma saved Zhuchka
To save his pet, he prepared a number of actions:
- I took poles from the gazebo, and newspapers and matches from the dining room.
- He entered Karetnik and took the reins with a rope. He decided to use a flashlight - in this situation this is the best way of lighting, because a burning newspaper can burn a dog.
- He made a loop on the reins and, shining a lantern on the well, tried to pull the dog out. She jumps for joy and falls into the slush.
- Tyoma proceeds to carry out the next plan - he ties a rope to a post and descends into the well. He ties the reins to the Bug and climbs out along the rope.
- He barely climbs out of the well and pulls out the dog.
Character of Tema
Tyoma is a very brave and courageous boy, he loves and takes care of his pet - Bug. When he learns that she is in trouble, he even sees a plan to save her in his dreams. And feeling unwell, he does not feel sorry for himself and goes to save her from death. He is a smart boy and the rescue plan he thought out and came up with turns out to be feasible. He does not pay attention to disgust and the terrible stench from the well, to the fear of suffocation - he climbs into the bottom. He is afraid that his dog, Zhuchka, will die in a well in the mud and darkness. Tyoma does not feel sorry for himself and despises his weakness and fatigue when he climbs to the top. He thinks that he has no right to give up, that he will get out and laugh at how hard the climb was. This shows that he is a disciplined, persistent and purposeful, and also a self-critical boy. But he also hopes for praise, imagining how everyone will be surprised by his rescue of the dog. Tyoma is a real hero, he was not afraid to risk himself for the sake of Zhuchka, but he could have fallen into a well and not gotten out of there. When they were free and a man appeared from the direction of the cemetery, the boy’s nerves could not stand it and he lost consciousness - this characterizes him as an impressionable child.