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The 'Let's Start! Art' series includes a wide range of imaginative projects to help children master new and exciting artistic skills. It demonstrates techniques such as cartooning, print-making, collage, painting, stencilling and model-making.

The ultimate art guide for kids who love painting and drawing with colors! Many kids love to draw! This delightful book introduces kids ages 9-12 to the wonderful world of watercolors, colored pencils, markers and pastels. It teaches them all the basic techniques needed to create beautiful works of art on their own! The detailed lessons in this book have over 300 color photos and are crafted by a team of art teachers to teach kids how to:Assemble the materials and practice the basic techniques...

Children will love identifying what sort of thing is being repeated (is it a boat? a swimmer? a buoy?) while also becoming more familiar with counting. For young children, this is a beautiful introduction to the world of numbers. For toddlers and older children, the content of the paintings leave a lot of room for discussion and thought beyond the pages of the book. The numbers inside this board book are out of order, encouraging children to interact with the artwork and explore the paintings at...

Age range 12+ With full-colour reproductions and engaging text, this sophisticated volume invites readers along on a journey to experience art like never before. Focusing on the art movement known as Cubism, this title examines its beginnings in the 1900s to its decline during World War I, including an introduction to great artists such as Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and Georges Braque and their works. Side panels and coloured glossary terms assist in making the text accessible to a wide range...

In this wholly original coloring book, children’s artwork can be turned into entertaining videos to play on a tablet or smartphone. Each page of this book features an aspect of Picasso’s art and life: from his studio—complete with rocking chair, paintbrushes, and dog—to the works themselves, including paintings, sculptures, and sketches. As the pages are colored, they can be photographed with a smartphone or tablet and, with the use of a free app, turned into an animated video, complete with mov...

This title lets you become a pirate, a ghoul, a spotty dog, and more. Features: 25 fantastic disguises to turn you into the zaniest characters - become an alien, paint on your sports kit and even become a birthday present; all the techniques are fully explained - from applying the base paint and making up lips and eyes, to taking care of equipment and removing the paint afterwards; Thomasina Smith's projects are great to do with a friend but just as easy to follow on your own; step-by-step photo...

Keesia and Henri Matisse have the same birthday—New Year’s Eve! That’s why she picks him for her artist report. She finds out that over his long career Matisse made paintings, sculpture, books, costumes, and her favorite—his cut-outs, or what Matisse called “drawing with scissors.” The report is filled with about 20 of Matisse’s masterpieces as well as artwork that Keesia has created in his “style” (cut-out leaves, drawings through windows, fauvist animals). As she follows Matisse through his li...

As she composed these thirteen poems, Justine Rowden wondered how a child would respond to the glorious paintings she viewed in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Now she shows readers that paintings don't need to be understood by children in an art-historyish way; when adults stand back and let children react with abandon, their responses will amaze everyone. And their appreciation of art will soar. These poems are sprightly, elliptical, sometimes silly, sometimes serious. They teach us...

Presents a brief overview of the life and work of this Russian artist, describing and giving examples of his work.