Joy Sikorski's Books

How to Draw a Radish: And Other Fun Things to Do at Work
Drawing is easy and fun! Joy Sikorski's best-selling spiral-bound book How to Draw a Radish is lauded as a "great little treasure that teaches the unbelievably talent-less how to draw" by deliberate doodling with form and purpose. Its features fun activities like origami and other playful ways to be creative in the office.

How to Draw a Cup of Coffee and Other Fun Ideas for Home and Garden
"The outrageous sequel to the best-selling How to Draw a Radish, Joy Sikorski's How to Draw a Cup of Coffee is the perfect stay-at-home passport to fun. Turning her curious creativity to the fertile territory of home and garden, Joy offers a host of essential crafts and useful suggestions: how to turn an overgrown lawn into a mystical maze, transform a dull cement sidewalk into a fancy brick path, make edible Louis XIV furniture, and much, much more."

Squeaky Chalk: And Other Fun Things to Draw (And Do) When There's Nothing to Do!
"Squeaky Chalk can teach anyone to be an artist! Featuring dozens and dozens of step-by-step pages and an activity and/or project at the end of each section, it lets readers test out their artistic skills at home or school. It's a great introduction to cartooning, a welcome rainy-day project book, and a cool way to bust boredom. With a compact trim size and sturdy hidden wire binding, Squeaky Chalk is a meaty 152 pages of activity fun!"

How to Draw a Clam: A Wonderful Vacation Planner
The book begins, "If you believe that one should always be on vacation as a matter of principle... This Book Is For You." How to Draw a Clam combines more fun drawing lessons, cut-out projects, yummy recipes, creativity tips, travel souvenirs, and Joy's own Bumpy Road board game that will keep young and old travelers entertained for hours.

Joy Sikorski : Squeaky Chalk Drawing Lessons : How to Draw a Pterodactyl

Draw a Pterodactyl Dinosaur Flying Bird!

How to Draw a Pterodactyl

Drawing Lesson #25 from Squeaky Chalk and other FUN things to DRAW (and do) when there is nothing to do! by Joy Sikorski

Squeaky Chalk by Joy Sikorski

Buy Squeaky Chalk from Amazon.com

Not quite Jurassic Park, but plenty dinosaurish this flying bird (or dinosaur thingy) is. Learn how to draw your own Pterodactyl with Joy's fun drawing lesson, and then take a look and see what we did with our own drawings at the end.

Creativity Portal's Squeaky Chalk Pterodactyl

Our Squeaky Chalk Pterodactyl

Pterodactyl Dinosaur Flying Bird

Our Pterodactyl Made Into a 3D Sculpture

3D Sculpture of Pterodactyl Flying Dinosaur Bird

Din-o-mite! Pterodactyl Paper Sculpture

By Chris Dunmire

Create your own mini Jurassic Park with this creatively fun Pterodactyl paper sculpture based on Joy Sikorski's free dinosaur drawing lesson.

As you can see, you don't always have to limit your playful drawings to flat paper! To make this fun Pterodactyl sculpture, follow the step-by-step directions below.

Project Materials & Tools:

Thick colored paper for your flying dinosaur
Newspaper and shredded colored (or painted) paper for the nest
Three or four of thin craft wires to hold the Ptero in place
Pencil
Thick black marker
Scissors
Tape or glue

Project Instructions:

Using Joy Sikorski's above drawing lesson, draw a Pterodactyl on thick colored card stock or reinforced construction paper (construction paper glued to card stock). Draw with pencil first, and then outline the picture with a thick, black marker.
Cut out the Pterodactyl, leaving 1/8" empty border around the black outline.
Build the nest by sculpting a base with plain newspaper and then gluing shredded colored paper inside and out.
Attach the Pterodactyl to the nest by gluing or taping the thin wires to its back and sticking them deep into the nest.
Optional: Add some "empty" decorated eggs into the nest and you have yourself one fine Pterodactyl Momma!

About the Author | More by Joy Sikorski
Joy Sikorski is the best-selling author of How to Draw a Radish and other drawing books that have been featured in Starbucks, bookshops of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Tampa Art Museum, the Salvador Dali Museum and other museums nationwide. Drawing lessons and images used from Squeaky Chalk and How to Draw a Clam are copyright Joy Sikorski and are used with permission. Learn more about Joy's books, art, and creativity by visiting Joy Sikorski online at www.joysikorski.com.

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