A biography of the child prodigy who wrote more than 800 pieces of music before his untimely death at thirty-five.
With her thoroughly researched, lively narrative and superbly detailed illustrations, Diane Stanley has captured the life of the artist Michelangelo, who towered above the late Renaissance—and whose brilliance in architecture, painting, and sculpture amazes and moves us to this day. Michelangelo had a turbulent, quarrelsome life. He was obsessed with perfection and felt that everyone--fro…
Abbeville Kids expands its award-winning series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children about the world by looking at art, and about art by looking at the world. In How Artists See the Elements children can see how Red Grooms created clumps of earth out of dabs and lines of paint; how Arthur Dove captured the beauty and destructiveness of fire at the same time; how N…
Any child who can make a stick figure can learn to create funny cartoons—and this enjoyably illustrated guide tells them exactly how. Written by professional cartoonist Art Roche, it gives kids lots of hands-on opportunities to turn their creative ideas into delightfully drawn reality. Roche encourages budding artists to develop a personal vision, rather than trace or copy someone elses style…
Do you know how to paint a watercolor wash splatter paint print patterns with plastic wrap or create resist effects with oil pastels? Packed full of ideas for painting drawing printing and doing collages this inspiring book will help develop your art skills. It will also give you lots of exciting ways to use different art materials. Either follow the simple step-by-step instructions exactly or …
Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of actual paintings, give children a light yet realistic overview of Leonardo DaVinci's life and style.
An illustrated, step-by-step guide for creating digital art and graphic effects using both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator software. The book offers graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers a collection of updated, time-saving techniques for creating breathtaking electronic designs--plus new material for updated software.
Traces the history of modern art from the 1850s to the present day, and introduces the main ideas and movements of each period with a few important works and Internet links for further study.
An ideal way to start children on an exciting, creative adventure towards global understanding! The fun, easy-to-do art activities in Global Art use collage, painting, drawing, printing, construction and sculpture to help children appreciate people and cultures from all over the world. Each activity is explained in step-by-step detail an accompanied by geographic and cultural background to help…
"ScienceArts" builds upon natural curiosity as children experience and explore basic science concepts as they create over 200 beautiful and amazing art experiments. Projects use common household materials and art supplies. The art activities are open-ended and easy to do with one science-art experiment per page, fully illustrated and kid-tested. The book inclues three indexes and an innovative …