Great American Artists for Kids: Hands-On Art Experiences in the Styles of Great American Masters

75 great American artists are introduced through open-ended art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography with full color artwork and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more! Special art options for very young children are included.

?Great American Artists for Kids activities include:

75 great American artists are introduced through open-ended art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography with full color artwork and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more! Special art options for very young children are included.

?Great American Artists for Kids activities include:

AndyWarhol ? Package Design
Bev Doolittle ? Camouflage Draw
Dale Chihuly ? Pool Spheres
Edward Hicks ? Peaceable Collage
Maya Lin ? Memorial Plaque
Jasper Johns – Encaustic Flag
Janet Fish ? Glass Still Life
Joseph Raffael ? Shiny Diptych
Jim Dine ? Heart Works
Roy Lichtenstein ? Comic Sounds
Thomas Jefferson ?Clay Keystone
Ansel Adams ? Friendly Portrait
Currier & Ives ? Assembly Color
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 Window
Hans Hofmann ? Energetic Color Blocks
Rube Goldberg ? Contraption
Georgia O’Keeffe ? Paint with Distance

?Just seeing this book is a thrill! It shows art at its fullest and liveliest and brings oat and inspires the would-be artist in all of us! The spirit of creativity streams off its pages. What a gift the authors have given student and teacher, child and adult alike, and indeed art itself. Looking at the book makes me want to rush into the studio and paint!
~ Joseph Raffael
Great American Artist

HANDS-ON ART EXPLORATION FOR
SCHOOL ? HOMESCHOOL ? MUSEUMS
LlBRARIES ? CHILDCARE ? HOME

ART ACTIVITIES ? EDUCATION ? PARENTING

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About the creators of “Great American Artists for Kids” –

MaryAnn Faubion Kohl is the award-winning author of ?Storybook Art , ?Discovering Great Artists and many other titles. She presents internationally, writes for numerous magazines, consults, and owns Bright Ring Publishing. MaryAnn lives in Bellingham, Washington.

Kim Solga is the author of “Draw!”, “Paint!”, “Make Prints!”, and other books. Her articles on arts and crafts appear regularly in national education and parenting magazines. Kim owns KidsArt, an art supply catalog, and lives in Mt. Shasta, California.

Rebecca Van Slyke, kids’ art editor, writes and illustrates children’s books and has taught second grade for over twenty years.

75 great American artists are introduced through open-ended art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography with full color artwork and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more! Special art options for very young children are included.

Great American Artists for Kids activities include:

75 great American artists are introduced through open-ended art activities allowing kids to explore great art styles from colonial times to the present. Each child-tested art activity presents a biography with full color artwork and techniques covering painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture, and more! Special art options for very young children are included.

Great American Artists for Kids activities include:

AndyWarhol Package Design
Bev Doolittle Camouflage Draw
Dale Chihuly Pool Spheres
Edward Hicks Peaceable Collage
Maya Lin Memorial Plaque
Jasper Johns – Encaustic Flag
Janet Fish Glass Still Life
Joseph Raffael Shiny Diptych
Jim Dine Heart Works
Roy Lichtenstein Comic Sounds
Thomas Jefferson Clay Keystone
Ansel Adams Friendly Portrait
Currier & Ives Assembly Color
Edward Hopper Wash Over
Grant Wood Gothic PasteUp
Wolf Kahn Layered Pastel
Jackson Pollock Great Action Art
Mary Cassatt Back Draw Monoprint
Louis Comfort Tiffany Bright Window
Hans Hofmann Energetic Color Blocks
Rube Goldberg Contraption
Georgia O’Keeffe Paint with Distance

Just seeing this book is a thrill! It shows art at its fullest and liveliest and brings oat and inspires the would-be artist in all of us! The spirit of creativity streams off its pages. What a gift the authors have given student and teacher, child and adult alike, and indeed art itself. Looking at the book makes me want to rush into the studio and paint!
~ Joseph Raffael
Great American Artist

HANDS-ON ART EXPLORATION FOR
SCHOOL HOMESCHOOL MUSEUMS
LlBRARIES CHILDCARE HOME

ART ACTIVITIES EDUCATION PARENTING

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About the creators of “Great American Artists for Kids” –

MaryAnn Faubion Kohl is the award-winning author of Storybook Art , Discovering Great Artists and many other titles. She presents internationally, writes for numerous magazines, consults, and owns Bright Ring Publishing. MaryAnn lives in Bellingham, Washington.

Kim Solga is the author of “Draw!”, “Paint!”, “Make Prints!”, and other books. Her articles on arts and crafts appear regularly in national education and parenting magazines. Kim owns KidsArt, an art supply catalog, and lives in Mt. Shasta, California.

Rebecca Van Slyke, kids’ art editor, writes and illustrates children’s books and has taught second grade for over twenty years.