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Drawing Ideas for Stuff in Georgia, From Peaches to Tallulah Gorge

One real thing from Georgia with a checked detail: a state symbol, an animal, a place or a food.

Drawing Ideas for Stuff in Georgia, From Peaches to Tallulah Gorge

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  1. A bald cypress with knees around its trunkThe trunk is often ringed by knobby knees that rise out of the water. The needles turn russet in fall.

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State symbols 16

  • A bobwhite quail calling from tall grass The state game bird. Its name copies its whistled call: bob-white.
  • A brown thrasher singing, tail held long The state bird: a long rufous tail, yellow eyes, a curved bill and teardrop marks down a pale chest.
  • A gopher tortoise at the mouth of its burrow The state reptile. Its burrows shelter at least 360 other kinds of animal. Scaly front legs, made for digging.
  • A honeybee on a clover head The state insect since 1975. Three body parts, and the stripes go on the last one.
  • A knobbed whelk shell on wet sand The state seashell, common along the Georgia coast and up to 12 inches long. Knobs ring the wide end.
  • A largemouth bass under a lily pad The state fish. The upper jaw reaches back past the eye, and a dark jagged stripe runs along each side.
  • A live oak with limbs wider than it is tall The state tree since 1937. It does not grow very high, but its limbs reach far out to the sides.
  • A peach on its twig with two leaves Georgia's state fruit since 1995. A round fruit with one crease down the side and a fuzzy skin.
  • A peanut plant pulled up, pods on the roots The state crop. Peanuts are pods that ripen under the ground, not nuts from a tree.
  • A right whale mother and calf at the surface The state marine mammal has its calves in winter off Georgia and Florida. Rough white patches mark the head.
  • A shark tooth, the state fossil A triangle with a notched root. Georgia named the shark tooth its state fossil in 1976.
  • A staurolite twin crystal The state mineral. Its crystals often grow as twins that pass through each other in a cross.
  • A Vidalia sweet onion with its papery skin peeling The state vegetable. It tastes sweet because the soil where it grows is low in sulfur.
  • An American green treefrog gripping a cattail The state amphibian: bright green with a white stripe along each side.
  • Georgia's state butterfly on a thistle head The eastern tiger swallowtail has held the title since 1988. Draw one side, then mirror it.
  • Half a peach with its stone A nectarine is the same species with a smooth skin, so the fuzz on the outside is what says peach.

Animals and plants 16

  • A bald cypress with knees around its trunk The trunk is often ringed by knobby knees that rise out of the water. The needles turn russet in fall.
  • A black bear crossing a mountain stream The smallest and most widespread bear in North America. Round ears and a pale muzzle.
  • A Cherokee rose climbing a fence A white, fragrant rose native to southern China, Taiwan and Vietnam that now grows wild in the United States.
  • A dogwood branch in bloom What look like four white petals are bracts. The true flowers are the small cluster in the middle.
  • A hooded pitcher plant A plant that eats insects, native to North America. Its tube ends in a hood that arches over the opening.
  • A loggerhead turtle crawling up a beach at night A sea turtle with a large head; a grown one has a shell about 3 feet long. Flipper tracks trail behind it.
  • A red-cockaded woodpecker at its tree hole A woodpecker found only in the southeastern United States. The eggs are laid in the male's roost hole.
  • A southern magnolia flower against dark leaves White flowers up to 12 inches across with six to 12 waxy petals, on dark green leaves.
  • A spray of longleaf pine needles The needles are 8 to 18 inches long, among the longest of any pine in the Southeast. Draw them as a spray.
  • A wood stork with its bare head down The only stork that breeds in North America. White body, bare dark head and neck.
  • An alligator among cypress knees The Okefenokee is a shallow, peat-filled swamp of 438,000 acres. Only eyes, nostrils and back ridges show.
  • An eastern indigo snake crossing sand The longest snake native to the United States, and not venomous. One long, glossy, dark curve.
  • Fiddler crabs on a mudflat The male has one claw far larger than the other and waves it. The female has two small ones.
  • Kudzu vines covering a shed A climbing vine from Asia that grows over other plants and smothers them. Draw the shape underneath first.
  • Spanish moss hanging from a branch Not a moss but a bromeliad, and it often grows on live oaks and bald cypress. Loose hanging curls.
  • Wild horses grazing on Cumberland Island A band of feral horses lives on the island, most likely descended from horses brought in the 1700s.

Places 16

  • A gold dome above Atlanta The dome of the state capitol was gilded in 1958 with gold leaf from near Dahlonega, in the mountains.
  • A Savannah square under live oaks Savannah was laid out in 1733 around open squares. Paths, benches and oaks hung with moss.
  • A trail sign on Springer Mountain The southern end of the Appalachian Trail, about 3,770 feet up in the north Georgia mountains.
  • A waterfall in Cloudland Canyon On the edge of Lookout Mountain. At the bottom of the gorge two waterfalls drop over sandstone and shale.
  • Amicalola Falls from the bottom At 729 feet the highest waterfall in Georgia. The name comes from a Cherokee term for tumbling waters.
  • Anna Ruby Falls, two falls side by side Twin waterfalls where two creeks meet, near Helen in the north Georgia mountains.
  • The covered bridge at Watson Mill The longest covered bridge in Georgia still on its first site: 229 feet across a fork of the Broad River.
  • Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island A beach strewn with bare, fallen trees on one of Georgia's Golden Isles. Pale trunks on pale sand.
  • The Dungeness ruins on Cumberland Island A ruined mansion on the largest of Georgia's sea islands. Roofless walls and empty window openings.
  • The fountain in Forsyth Park A large fountain in a 30-acre park in Savannah's historic district. Tiers of basins, water falling between.
  • The oak avenue at Wormsloe A dirt road 1.5 miles long lined with live oaks, near Savannah. The branches meet overhead.
  • Providence Canyon's steep gullies Called Georgia's Little Grand Canyon. The deepest gully is over 150 feet, and erosion of farmland made them.
  • Sapelo Island's lighthouse The nation's second-oldest brick lighthouse, near the tip of a barrier island that is reached only by boat.
  • Tallulah Gorge from the rim A canyon about 2 miles long and almost 1,000 feet deep, cut by the Tallulah River in northeast Georgia.
  • Tybee Island Light with its keeper's house A lighthouse where the Savannah River meets the sea. Its tower is painted in bands of black and white.
  • The view from Brasstown Bald The highest point in Georgia at 4,784 feet, in the Blue Ridge. Ridge behind ridge, each one paler.

Food and things 16

  • A block of Georgia marble with dark veins Quarried in Pickens County: coarse-grained, white or gray, with black or dark blue veins and clouds.
  • A blueberry cluster on its stem Georgia is one of the larger blueberry growers in the United States. Each berry ends in a small crown.
  • A bowl of Brunswick stew A tomato-based stew of beans, vegetables and meat. Georgia and Virginia both claim it started with them.
  • A bowl of grits with a pat of butter Coarsely ground corn boiled to a porridge. Georgia made grits its official prepared food in 2002.
  • A cluster of muscadine grapes The state grape since 2021. Round berries, bronze or dark purple when ripe.
  • A cotton boll, burst open The fiber grows in a boll, a case around the seeds. Soft tufts between hard, pointed sections.
  • A gold pan with flakes in the bottom The Georgia Gold Rush began in 1829 near Dahlonega. A wide, shallow pan with water swirling in it.
  • A paper bag of boiled peanuts Raw or green peanuts boiled in salt water, still in the shell. Draw the shells dark and wet.
  • A peach cobbler in a baking dish Fruit under a crust of batter or biscuit, baked. The top is lumpy, never neat.
  • A pecan in its split husk Georgia's state nut since 2021. A smooth oval shell inside a green husk that splits open.
  • A pimento cheese sandwich on a paper plate A spread of cheese, mayonnaise and pimentos: orange with red flecks, between slices of white bread.
  • A pitcher of sweet tea and two glasses Black tea sweetened while it is still hot, then served ice cold. Ice to the top of each glass.
  • A plate of shrimp and grits A dish of the Lowcountry, eaten in coastal Georgia and South Carolina. Curled shrimp on a pale mound.
  • A red clay road between pines Red clay soil gets its color from iron oxide, which is rust. Let the road narrow to a point between the trunks.
  • A shrimp boat with its nets raised Georgia named the white shrimp its state crustacean in 2024. Two long booms hold the nets out to the sides.
  • A wall of tabby, shells showing Tabby is a concrete of lime from burned oyster shells, sand, ash and broken shells, used on the Georgia coast.

How it works

A bird with a rufous tail, a canyon made by farming, a concrete made of oyster shells. Each of these drawing ideas names a real thing in the state of Georgia and gives one checked detail.

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Georgia stuff to draw, by topic

The Topic list sorts the page four ways. State symbols runs from the peach to the shark tooth. Animals and plants covers swamp, mountain and coast. Places holds gorges, waterfalls, lighthouses and Savannah. Food and things runs from a peach cobbler to a shrimp boat.

For a school project on the state

Pick one symbol, one animal and one place, and write each name under its drawing with the fact beside it. Use a photograph for anything you have not seen: the thrasher's chest marks and the whelk's knobs are easy to get wrong.

  • Spanish moss is gray-green, not bright green. Draw it as loose hanging curls, longest in the middle of each clump.
  • A waterfall is mostly white paper. Draw the dark rock on both sides and leave the water blank.

Questions and answers

Is this list about the state of Georgia or the country?

The state, in the southeastern United States. Every symbol, animal, plant, place and food on the list is found there.

Which Georgia state symbols are on the list?

The peach is the state fruit, the brown thrasher the state bird, the live oak the state tree and the largemouth bass the state fish. The gopher tortoise, the right whale, the honeybee, the Vidalia onion and the peanut are here too.

What is the easiest thing from Georgia to draw?

A peach: a circle with one crease and two leaves. A shark tooth is a triangle with a notched root, and a staurolite crystal is two bars crossed.

Why is Providence Canyon called the Little Grand Canyon?

Its steep gullies look like a small canyon. They are not ancient: the deepest, more than 150 feet, came from erosion after settlers farmed the land in the 1800s.

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