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Watercolor With Me in the Forest

sarah — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:52:58 +0000

In Watercolor With Me in the Forest, Dana provides light outlines of each project, and every page is printed on premium art paper, so you can focus on the watercolor techniques―wet-on-dry, wet-on-wet, painting fur and ink and wash. Even if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush before, Dana’s creative tricks will ensure that every piece of art is frame-worthy.

Whether you’re looking to try a new style, learn the basics or find a new way to de-stress, this step-by- step guide makes it easier than ever to create stunning art.

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Anholt Art Package

Admin — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:01:44 +0000

Bundled together to help you save! The activity book is a non-optional component of this bundle and then you'll need to choose a minimum of three picture books to complete the package. Keep in mind that the bundled price changes depending on how many books you purchase. This art instruction book for children was devised [...]

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Draw 50 Animals

CEBAdmin — Tue, 25 May 2021 23:49:48 +0000

In Draw 50 Animals, students learn how to draw fifty furry, scaly, and feathered friends using a simple step-by-step mimicry process. With this perfect book for beginners, watch your student bring bunnies, lions, kitties, crabs, sharks, and more to life.

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Brushwork

CEBAdmin — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:07:45 +0000

Sample

The instruction starts with a series of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal brush stroke exercises, followed by a couple of designs created using those elements. The rest of the lessons alternate between showing how strokes may be combined to represent natural objects such as flowers, animals, insects, and birds, and then using them in designs. Only six colors are used in the lessons, with two required for each exercise, giving students lots of opportunities to work with pigments to obtain the hues desired.

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What to Draw and How to Draw It

CEBAdmin — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 21:27:21 +0000

Sample This classic book is a delightful "how-to-draw" showing the reader ways to illustrate a variety of buildings, animals and people.

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How to Draw Forest Animals

CEBAdmin — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 23:32:53 +0000

Girls and boys ages 5 to 10 can learn to draw many different forest animals by using circles, ovals, rectangles, squares, and other shapes! There are 30 pictures to create: skunk, fox, raccoon, moose, forest wolf spider, a star-nosed mole, a sharp-shinned hawk, a silver-haired bat, and more. Simple directions and step-by-step illustrations make it [...]

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Leonardo’s Horse

Hester VanBraeden — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:29:39 +0000

"A scintillating sliver of history. . . . An inventive introduction to the Renaissance and one of its masters." (Publishers Weekly, starred review) "An unusual and surprisingly touching story . . . . An offbeat and intriguing read." (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review) "At times sad, silly, and telling, this [...]

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Art Masterpieces to Color: 60 Great Paintings from Botticelli to Picasso

Tym VanBraeden — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:04:53 +0000

From masterpieces by Michelangelo and Raphael to striking creations by Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this ready-to-color collection includes excellent renderings of Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Winslow Homer’s Snap the Whip, and Edward Hopper’s Hotel Room, as well as compositions by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Edward Burne-Jones, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh, and 45 other great artists.

Printed on one side only, the illustrations can be colored with a variety of media, including watercolors. All paintings are shown in original colors on the inside covers and notes provide information on each artist.

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Michelangelo

Dayna Barendregt — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 02:17:25 +0000

Michelangelo had a turbulent, quarrelsome life. He was obsessed with perfection and felt that everyone–from family members to his demanding patrons–took advantage and let him down. His long and difficult association with Pope Julius II yielded his greatest masterpiece, the radiant paintings in the Sistine Chapel, and his most disastrous undertaking, the monumental tomb that caused the artist frustration and heartache for forty years.

With her thoroughly researched, lively narrative and superbly detailed illustrations, Diane Stanley has captured the life of an artist who towered above the late Renaissance–and whose brilliance in architecture, painting, and sculpture amazes and moves us to this day.

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How to Draw Insects

Dayna Barendregt — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 02:01:25 +0000

This easy-to-follow guide makes it simple for youngsters — and aspiring artists of all ages — to create recognizable likenesses of 30 different insects.

By following clear, step-by-step illustrations, nature artists will learn how to use circles, ovals, and other shapes to draw simple, lifelike portraits of a grasshopper, monarch butterfly, tarantula, caterpillar, cicada, praying mantis, walkingstick, scorpion, yellow jacket wasp, carpenter ant, Japanese beetle, moth, firefly, centipede, termite, and other insects.

These fascinating subjects not only are fun to draw, they’ll also help beginners master the fundamentals of developing line, shape, and dimension.

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Draw 50 Horses

Dayna Barendregt — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 02:33:31 +0000

Related Resources:

The History of the Horse Package

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Leonardo da Vinci

Dayna Barendregt — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 02:56:00 +0000

As a boy, Leonardo was apprenticed to a famous artist. But he quickly became more skillful than his teacher, and his passionate interests went far beyond art. Fascinated with the human body, he carried out his own experiments in secret. He filled thousands of pages with plans for incredible inventions including a submarine, an air-cooling system, glasses to see the moon larger, and even a flying machine!

Diane Stanley blends wonderful storytelling with gorgeous illustrations to convey the stunning scope of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius in a book that has won many awards and earned two starred reviews.

Related Resources:The History of Science Package

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