Art for Kids: Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be

by Kathryn Temple

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579905870
• ISBN13: 9781579905873
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Excellent beginning book!

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!

Excellent Drawing Book

I purchased this for my 10 year old granddaughter. She loves it. She says it has all different subjects to draw and gives step by step how to.

Wow

I teach art classes and was thrilled with this book. It is well written and will have a special place in my library. I refer to it weekly.

Great for HS students, too!

I'm a high school art teacher and I recently saw this book at the local library. I'll soon be ordering it as a resource for my classroom because it's got a lot of good, basic information and an easy-to-understand format that's very similar to the way I introduce drawing techniques to my Art 1 students. I'm impressed!

excellent for adults, too

If you are an adult who never learned fundamentals of drawing, this book is great. It demystifies shading and perspective, in a way that no other book or instructor has been able to get through to me. The exercises are basic and easy to practice, with an economy of words. This book is also perfect for children.