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Art for Kids: Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathryn Temple
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 67487
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1579905870
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.2
EAN: 9781579905873
ASIN: 1579905870
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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Product Description
What do children hope to create when they put pencil to paper? An accurate likeness of the things they see, of course. With this imaginative, informative, and amply-illustrated guide to drawing, it's amazingly easy for kids to make those art dreams come true. After a brief overview of tools and materials, the entertaining hands-on activities begin with contour drawing techniques. With the help of lots of exercises, budding artists will learn the basic elements of shapes (lines, dots, circles) and see how to combine them to make familiar forms. They'll find out how to produce the illusion of volume with shading techniques; create perspective; accurately recreate landscapes, people, animals, and nature; develop interesting compositions; and more.
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Impressed even the art teacher December 16, 2008
Art for Kids: Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be
Found this book to be perfect for the budding artist
in the 12 year old range. Very detailed and yet
you can pick and chose what you want to work on.
Many helpful hints that I didn't pick up til my
college art classes. Great gift.
Great kids' art book September 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My 11-year old son loves to draw. His skills are self taught, and he has checked out MANY books from the library over the years. He recently checked out this book and declared it one of the best he'd ever seen. (I bought it from Amazon for a Christmas present.) Even though he already understands shading, perspective, etc., he thought this book helped him improve even more. The book also has a lot on drawing people and faces, which can be very challenging.
Great for all ages! February 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I ordered this book based on some of the reviews I had read and I am very impressed with it. Though it is geared for kids, it is great for older artists as well. It breaks down steps and procedures wonderfully and presents them in a very informative many. If you want to learn the basics of drawing I would strongly recommend this book. Enjoy!
Great Beginner Drawing Book December 29, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
We purchased this book for our 7-year old daughter. The book is written and illustrated in a manner that she was able to open the book, read it and go by the illustrations by herself. She has been using this book almost daily since Christmas.
Excellent beginning book! July 30, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is excellent for the beginning art teacher and drawing student. I am basing a lot of my curriculum on ideas inspired by this book in my upcoming school year. It takes your thoroughly through each step/stage of learning to draw so that anyone can master it! Great illustrations and ideas are perfectly fit onto each page, without annoying "materpieces" that you don't think possible. By the end, you will be drawing with the best of them-- and students will too!
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