Complete Book of Art Ideas (Usborne Art Ideas)
by Fiona Watt Author
(From Amazon): This is a new great-value edition of this inspiring book, which is filled with original ideas for painting, drawing and collage to help novices of all ages to develop their art skills. The projects will be of great value to art teachers as well as aspiring young artists, who will gain confidence as they progress through the book. It helps children to explore the uses of a range of materials including chalk, paint and pencil, elastic bands, salt and watercolour through a number of highly imaginative projects including ink beetles, deep-sea fish, and lemon juice frogs.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 978-1409507628
- Print Status
- In Print
- pages
- 46
- Pages
- 288
- Suggested Grades
- Early Years - 6th
- Publisher
- Usborne
- Edition
- New edition
- Copyright
- 2009
pages
- 4 Art Materials
- 6 Brushwork
- 8 Mixing colours
- 10 Acrylic paints
- 12 Thick and thin paint
- 14 Patterns and dots
- 16 Glue pictures
- 18 Printing patterns
- 20 More printed patterns
- 22 Ready-mix and poster paints
- 24 Elastic band prints
- 26 Hand and cardboard prints
- 28 Hand and cardboard prints
- 30 Masking out and spattering
- 32 Pulled cardboard prints
- 34 Paint and tissue paper
- 36 About colours
- 38 Colour and tone
- 40 Inks
- 42 Brush and ink paintings
- 44 Brush paintings
- 46 Watercolour paints
- 48 Experimenting with watercolours
- 50 Painting in wet paper
- 52 Water Painting
- 54 Blow paintings
- 56 Painting skies
- 58 Salt paintings
- 60 Adding highlights
- 62 Painting perspective
- 64 Chalk pastels
- 66 A pastel fantasy landscape
- 68 More chalk techniques
- 70 Oil pastels
- 72 Colour and patterns
- 74 Oil pastel effects
- 76 Wax crayons
- 78 Wax resist rubbings
- 80 More resist effects
- 82 Cracked wax effect
- 84 Creating textured paper
- 86 Spatter paper collage
- 88 Tissue paper painting
- 90 Making cards and frames
- 92 More ideas
- 96 Shading ideas
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