Art Fun! (Art & Activities for Kids)
by North Light Books Author
(From Amazon): 69 original projects for ages 6-11Uses everyday materials found in your own homeColorful step-by-step how-to photos for all projectsArt Fun!Help young artists develop their creativity, imagination and talents, and have hours of fun along the way! Kids will love these fun-filled art adventures, including:Print Making!Experiment with patterns and shapes using bars of soap blocks, buttons, leaves, vegetables and, the simplest of tools of all, fingers.Sculpting!Making clay "critter pots," cardboard tube towers, life-size self-portraits and time capsules.Drawing!Encourage kids to try watercolor paints, felt-tip pens, crayons, pastel chalks and charcoal and colored pencils on everything from paper bags to adding machine tape.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0891348336
- Print Status
- In Print
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- North Light Books
- Edition
- 1st
- Copyright
- 1997
Pages
- 8 PART ONE: PAINT - Crystal Colors (Color Blending)
- 12 Pudding Paint (Mastering Texture)
- 16 Dots of Color (Exploring Pointillism)
- 20 Stained Glass (Understanding Translucency)
- 24 Build a Better Brush (Art Has No Rules!)
- 26 Marble Rolling (Appreciating Abstract Design)
- 28 Face Paintings (Painting Expressions)
- 34 Shine On (Experimenting with Media)
- 38 Half and Half Paintings (Measuring Proportions)
- 40 Watercolor Batik (Painting with Resists)
- 46 Paint Making (Making Paints and Pigments)
- 50 PART TWO: DRAW - Take a Line for a Walk (Contour Drawing)
- 54 Animal Scribbles (Gesture Drawings)
- 58 Close-Ups (Size/Scale)
- 62 Upside Down (Drawing What You See)
- 64 Inside Outside (Architecture and Design)
- 68 Magic Tape (Foreground/Background)
- 70 Flip Books (Animation)
- 74 Daring Drawing (Experimenting with Tools and Techniques)
- 76 3-D Doodles (Drawing in 3-D)
- 84 My Self-Portrait (Drawing a Likeness)
- 92 PART THREE: MAKE PRINTS - Collections (Studying Patterns and Shapes)
- 96 Prints Charming (Making a Monoprint)
- 100 Nature Prints (Seeing Invisible Textures)
- 104 Symmetrical Prints (Creating Spontaneous Designs)
- 108 Hammered Wood (Making a Wood Block)
- 112 Fingerprinting (Printing a Story)
- 114 Animal Tracks (Carving a Likeness)
- 118 Rubbings (Working with Textures and Impressions)
- 120 Veggie Geometry (Repetition in Design)
- 124 Soap Block Printmaking (Understanding Positive and Negative Images)
- 128 Tempera Silk Screens (Making a Silk Screen)
- 134 PART FOUR: MAKING SCULPTURES - Theme Sculptures (Assemblage)
- 136 Stuffings (Soft Sculpture)
- 142 Time Capsules (Collage Sculpture)
- 144 Soft Stone Carving (Subtractive Sculpture)
- 148 Tube Towers (Architectural Sculpture)
- 152 Fast Food Giants (Pop Art Sculpture)
- 156 Critter Pots (Sculpting with Clay)
- 160 Funky Junk (Additive Sculpture)
- 164 Papier Maché Animals (Sculpting with Papier Maché)
- 168 Twig Weavings (Textile Art)
- 170 Fantastic Faces (Paper Sculpture)
- 176 PART FIVE: PAINT ADVENTURES - Bubble Painting (Seeing Patterns)
- 178 Melted Crayons (Encaustic Painting)
- 184 Tempera Batik (Learning About Batik)
- 188 Puffy Paint (Making and Using Textured Paint)
- 192 The Color Wheel (Color Theory and Experiments)
- 196 Op Art (Optical Art)
- 200 Marbled Paper (Marbling)
- 204 Scrap Magic (Fun Things to Make)
- 206 Sand Painting (Navajo Sand Painting)
- 210 Paint Plus (Creating Textures in Paint)
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