Fleming Community Library

Examines different techniques and styles that can be used when drawing people, including portraits, caricature, collage, and 3-D modeling, using examples from great artists and suggestions for creating your own works.

Artists work with many different tools and materials to make art. They also spend a great deal of time looking carefully at patterns, shapes, and colors. This book is about how artists see sports and leisure. In the past, before television, computers, and movies, people had very different ways of spending their leisure time. They would go on picnics, sit in cafes, or perhaps go on boat trips. You can see this in their paintings.

Examines different techniques and styles that can be used when drawing objects, including painting, sculpting, photomontage, printing, mosaic, and sculpture, showing examples from great artists and giving suggestions for creating your own works.

Offers clear, step-by-step illustrated techniques for creating fun and appealing art projects that lead to discovery and a real sense of accomplishment while also introducing art concepts such as color, form, and texture.

"Explores the variety of patterns, shapes, colors, and textures found in nature and encourages kids to use nature as inspiration for their own projects. Includes project ideas."--Provided by the publisher.

"Describes forms of sculpture, the textures of materials used, and provides project ideas, including wire sculpture and junk art"--Provided by publisher.