The Artful Parent

The Artful Parent

Author: Jean Van't Hul

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1611807204

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Bring out your child’s creativity and imagination with more than 60 artful activities in this completely revised and updated edition Art making is a wonderful way for young children to tap into their imagination, deepen their creativity, and explore new materials, all while strengthening their fine motor skills and developing self-confidence. The Artful Parent has all the tools and information you need to encourage creative activities for ages one to eight. From setting up a studio space in your home to finding the best art materials for children, this book gives you all the information you need to get started. You’ll learn how to: * Pick the best materials for your child’s age and learn to make your very own * Prepare art activities to ease children through transitions, engage the most energetic of kids, entertain small groups, and more * Encourage artful living through everyday activities * Foster a love of creativity in your family


Great American Artists for Kids

Great American Artists for Kids

Author: MaryAnn F. Kohl

Publisher: Bright Ring Publishing

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0935607269

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75 great American masters are introduced through open-ended quality art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography, full color artwork, and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more. Special art options for very young children are included. Many great artists will be familiar names, like Cassatt, Warhol, and O'Keeffe. Other names will be new to some, like Asawa, Smithson, and Magee. Each featured artist has a style that is interesting to children, with a life history that will entertain and inspire them. Sample of some of the artists and companion activities: Andy Warhol - Package Design Bev Doolittle - Camouflage Draw Dale Chihuly - Pool Spheres Maya Lin - Memorial Plaque Jasper Johns - Encaustic Flag Joseph Raffael - Shiny Diptych Roy Lichtenstein - Comic Sounds Thomas Jefferson - Clay Keystone Edward Hopper - Wash Over Grant Wood - Gothic Paste-Up Wolf Kahn - Layered Pastel Jackson Pollock - Great Action Art Mary Cassatt - Back-Draw Monoprint Louis Comfort Tiffany - Bright Windows Hans Hofmann - Energetic Color Blocks Rube Goldberg - Contraption Georgia O'Keeffe - Paint with Distance 2009 Moonbeam Children's Bronze Award 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award


Stained Glass Window Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright

Stained Glass Window Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright

Author: Dennis Casey

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1997-02-28

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 0486295168

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Sixteen full-page designs adapted from windows in Wright buildings: Robie House, Dana House, Coonley Playhouse, many more. Geometrics, florals, etc. Color and hang near light source for glowing stained glass effects.


Arts and Crafts Stained Glass Pattern Book

Arts and Crafts Stained Glass Pattern Book

Author: Carolyn Relei

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2002-07-15

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780486423180

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Inspired by the elegant simplicity of the Arts and Crafts movement, this compilation of original patterns is the handiwork of an expert in stained glass design. Artists and artisans will find a wealth of design options among its 73 handsome motifs. Here is a garden of florals, with sprays of blossoms and single buds, running patterns of flowering vines, and other images drawn from the natural world, many reduced in the sinuous curved lines that foreshadow the development of Art Nouveau. Framed by oval, rectangular, square, round, and half-round borders, these royalty-free designs are easily adapted for use in a wide variety of craft projects.


Christmas Stained Glass Coloring Book

Christmas Stained Glass Coloring Book

Author: Theodore Menten

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1973-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780486211190

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Christmas scenes on translucent paper to decorate windows, lampshades, and much more. 16 designs.Dover Original.


Tiffany Windows Stained Glass Pattern Book

Tiffany Windows Stained Glass Pattern Book

Author: Connie Clough Eaton

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-14

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0486139662

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60 lovely, royalty-free designs from authentic landscape and memorial windows, panels, transoms, skylights, glass screens, more. Also practical for other craft and coloring activities.


Stained Glass in an Afternoon

Stained Glass in an Afternoon

Author: Vicki Payne

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781402716874

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Not only are the techniques for both copper foil and mosaic stained glass completely demystified here, but all 25 projects take only an afternoon to complete. Start with a Tulip Panel, the perfect first project, so simple and pleasing. Learn and use the proper tools, cut, assemble, solder, frame, and finish. You'll be proud as a peacock of your lovely Peacock Lampshade. "Plus: corner accents, beautiful boxes, welcome signs, bird baths and more.


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Publisher: Brilliant Publications

Published:

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0857476726

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