"Vashti doesn't think she can draw, but her teacher encourages her to "just make a mark and see where it takes you." Vashti at first ventures one small and unremarkable dot, but is soon making big dots and small dots, red dots, blue dots, and purple dots. At the school art show, her entire collection of dots turns heads and wins praise"--Container insert.
Little Gopher follows his destiny, as revealed in a Dream-Vision, of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to the earth.
Presents a discussion of the way artists show action in painting, photographs, and sculpture, in simple text with illustrations, providing examples from a wide range of styles and works, including Seurat, Rodin, Monet, and more.
Profiles six expressionist artists including Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Vasily Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, and contains examples of their work along with instructions for twenty-five fun art projects.
hands-on art experiences in the styles of great American masters
Kohl, MaryAnn F
2008
Provides biographical information about American artists, including sculptors, painters, quilters, and architects; offers samples of each artists' work; and suggests an activity involving each artist's technique.