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Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages
"Susan Schwake's Art Lab for Kids is a well-thought-out guide, making it easy to introduce art into children's lives. Simple, clear explanations of technique, combined with inspiration from established artists, will enable children to feel successful and encouraged to explore art as a form of expression." - Rebecca Emberley, best-selling children's book author and illustra...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
February 1st 2012
by Quarry Books
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"Susan Schwake's Art Lab for Kids is a well-thought-out guide, making it easy to introduce art into children's lives. Simple, clear explanations of technique, combined with inspiration from established artists, will enable children to feel successful and encouraged to explore art as a form of expression." - Rebecca Emberley, best-selling children's book author and illustrator
" Art Lab for Kids will make a valuable contribution to the literature of children's creative art experiences for teachers...more
" Art Lab for Kids will make a valuable contribution to the literature of children's creative art experiences for teachers...more
I have mixed feelings about this book. I can't say it's bad, because I've taught 95% of the projects before. they're great projects! But as an artist and art instructor, I've seen kids do more than what is in this book (for some of the projects). Some of the projects are very simple things you could find over the internet. Some are things you do in elementary school. It's got a broad mix of really cool projects with a lot of potential, and really dull projects that I know kids don't really respo...more
Very attractive book. Good simple art projects. Many will remind parents of old elementary and middle school art projects. But they are still good projects and seeing them represented in an attractive way with fresh ideas will make you want to do them again with your kids. Great gift for the arty person in your life.
Great projects and I love that each project has a "Meet the Artist" section with links to contemporary or historical artists. I always love the working artist or art history connection!
Great ideas for teaching art at my kids school and also inspiration for myself to develop my personal creativity.
there are a couple ideas in here I think would be great for a teen art program at the library.
Want to try the painting and plastic wrap, string printing, salt painting, ...
Oct 02, 2012
Meira Berger
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Looks like a nice resource for teaching art classes.
Probably useful for art instruction, but wasn't really what I was looking for (creative inspiration for teens & tweens).
Perfect book for summertime and rainy PNW days.
Favorite projects ::
- dream animals
- painting like a Fauvist
- reverse color landscape painting
- watercolor with salt
- collage tissue self-portraits
- larger than life portraits
Favorite projects ::
- dream animals
- painting like a Fauvist
- reverse color landscape painting
- watercolor with salt
- collage tissue self-portraits
- larger than life portraits
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Slightly impractical materials and the ideas were a little weak BUT would still make a great series of projects for a summer reading program.
Great resource for simple art projects in a methodical survey.
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