circus in art

Stresses anatomy, movement, and balance for the beginning artist using circus animals and performers as models.

Step-by-step illustrations explain how to draw a variety of circus characters.

Presents a children's book for early readers that contains easy steps to drawing a seal, happy clown, circus wagon, and other animals, people, and objects connected to the circus.

An exploration of painting through 2000 years of art history focusing on paintings of the circus.

Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for using circles, ovals, and other shapes to draw thirty different circus pictures, including a circus train, tent, tiger, and clown.

Critical descriptions accompany photographic reproductions of paintings of circuses and fairs from various times and countries.

Presents poems about the circus illustrated with paintings by such artists as Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Calder, and photographs from the Ringling Brothers and Big Apple circuses.

Simple instructions for drawing a circus tent and the different human and animal performers.

Presents step-by-step instructions for making 25 crayon drawings of circus attractions, including clowns, acrobats, and the ringmaster.

An illustrated account of American mobile artist Alexander Calder's creation of a miniature circus from wire, string, rubber, cloth, and other found objects, which grew to fill multiple suitcases.