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Watercolor for the Artistically Undiscovered/Book and Paint Set
by Thacher Hurd, John Cassidy

Price: $19.95

A playful guide to learning the art of watercolor painting combines storytelling with instruction and includes a complete set of watercolor paints and a brush.

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How to Draw Pokemon : Gotta Catch 'Em All!
by Ron Zalme
3.95

Reviewer: A reader from St. Petersburg, FL      October 15, 1999

My five year old has, in one week, gone from frustration at being unable to draw Pokemon characters to drawing recognizable figures. A great investment, imo, and a fabulous way for her to learn basic artistic principles. The only caveat is that there is a general lack of "easy" figures; however, the age-old "start with circles" technique is relatively easy for children of any age to follow.
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The Kids' Multicultural Art Book : Art & Craft Experiences from Around the World
by Alexandra M. Terzian
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An exciting hands-on feast of multicultural art and craft experiences. With this book, children learn by doing--reaching across continents with paper, paste, and paints, while developing basic sensibilities about the wondrous cultures of others. Over 400 outstanding how-to illustrations.
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Draw the Marvel Comics Super Heroes
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Draw the Marvel Super Heroes is a working toolbook. It's meant to be drawn in, colored over and read. There are tips and pointers on every page--written by the Marvel pros themselves. Packaged with each copy are all the needed tools--a pencil and four double-nibbed color markers, stored in a bound-on zippered vinyl pouch. Purchase This Item

In the Paint
by Patrick Aloysius Ewing, Linda L. Louis
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From Kirkus Reviews
Basketball star and former fine arts major Ewing isn't ``in the paint'' on the basketball court alone; here, with Louis, he offers fledgling painters and their parents practical advice about essential art supplies, organizing a work space, choosing subjects, mixing paint to get different colors, and planning ahead. The suggestions are simple and savvy, from keeping the paint cups on a large cookie sheet, to making details large by using charcoal rather than pencil for preparatory drawings. Big, bright paintings done by children and captioned with their comments illustrate this engagingly personal primer, along with small shots of Ewing in and out of uniform; although his introduction ends with some product placement for the financial services company that displays his paintings on their credit card, the advertising is unobtrusive. (Nonfiction. 7+)
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Ecoart! :
Earth-Friendly Art and Craft Experiences
for 3-To 9-Year-Olds
by Laurie Carlson, Loretta T. Braren (Illustrator)
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The bestselling author of Kids Create! combines her intuitive sense of each child's need for self-expression and interaction with nature with her wealth of imaginative experiences. All the projects use recyclable, reusable, household materials and/or items found in nature.
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Mark Kistler's Draw Squad
by Mark Kistler
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Great art program for teachers, children and adults!

Reviewer: Elan Goldmann      November 6, 1999
As a fourth-grade teacher who was never very good at art, I always found teaching art to be very difficult. Elementary school teachers aren't provided with any real curriculum, and the majority of ideas out there in books and teachers' magazines are simplistic cut-and-paste busy work that don't really teach any art concepts. Then I found this book! This is incredible! My whole art program is set up around this book! It teaches art concretely and step-by-step so that the most art challenged students (including myself) are able to learn from it! The kids love it, and its great for teaching mathematical and geometrical concepts like shapes, angles and terms. I couldn't recommend this book for any teacher (or child, or parent) more! You and your children will draw great pictures, even if you are as bad at drawing as I am!
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Learn to Draw Now
by Doug C. Dubosque
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Introduces techniques and exercises for rendering the basic three-dimensional forms essential for realistic drawing: the cylinder, cone, sphere, and box.
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Draw 3-D : A Step by Step Guide to Perspective Drawing
by D. C. Dubosque
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Provides instructions for making perspective drawings.
Reviewer: A reader from Indiana      September 23, 1999
I bought three beginning drawing books for my 9 year old, and this one was his favorite (one on how to draw cartoons was a close second). The first exercise, which is to spell out your name using 3-D letters, caught his interest right away, and he's been back to the book several times on his own initiative.
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   The Art Box

by Gail Gibbons (Illustrator)

Price: $6.25

Editorial Reviews From Booklist

Ages 4^-8. Simplicity and clarity are the hallmarks of Gibbons' latest offering. Illustrations with clean lines and bright colors set against textured handmade papers show the tools and supplies of drawing and painting, the primary and secondary colors, and junior van Goghs in the act of artistic expression. The organization is logical, proceeding from the familiar to the less so (i.e., "paper" before "palette"), and the straightforward text combines boldface headings, captions, and succinct descriptions. The topic is a natural for most kids, and the treatment is solid. Julie Corsaro --

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 A Color Sampler
by Kathleen Westray (Illustrator)
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From Horn Book
Even adding a little color theory at the end, the book teaches colors and explores mixing them. Each illustration takes its design from a traditional patchwork-quilt pattern, which is named on the final page. The square pages show colors and text in a clean design with plenty of white space. A fine book to grow with. -- Copyright © 1994 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Exploring Colored Pencil

by Sandra McFall Angelo

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