Helps children understand the role shape plays in art, with photographs of famous paintings to help them identify squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.
Helps children understand the role color plays in art and uses photographs of famous paintings to explain what primary and secondary colors are and how they can be mixed to make new colors.
Helps children understand the role line plays in art and uses photographs of famous paintings to demonstrate how lines are used to create shapes and patterns.
Teaches children how to combine colors for harmony and for contrast, how to use color in drawings and paintings to convey mood, and how to create three-dimensional effects through shading, presenting step-by-step instructions for thirty-six projects.
Presents a full-color illustrated art idea book with over four hundred projects using paints and pastels, crayons, inks, and pens, along with instructions for embossing, collages, paper sculptures, and more.
Presents a collection of journal entries written by Keith Haring throughout his artistic career. Haring discusses his personal and professional lives, the factors that influenced his artwork, and how he viewed his own mortality.
Looks at the life of Leonardo da Vinci, a fifteenth-century man who is known for his achievements as an artist, inventor, scientist, military engineer, philosopher, botanist, and mathematician. Presented in graphic novel form.
Examines the life of fifteenth-century sculptor and painter Michelangelo, and looks at some of the works he created, including the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the statue of David. Includes activities.
