Explore drawing, painting, printmaking, paper, and mixed media with 52 creative, step-by-step art projects set into weekly lessons for budding artists of all ages. Each lesson relates to the work and style of a contemporary artist, and the labs can be used as standalone projects or built up into a full year of hands-on fine art experiences.
- Drawing: create a whimsical scene on a handmade crayon scratchboard
- Painting: use watercolors and salt to build a textured landscape
- Printmaking: make colorful prints from lemons, celery, and mushrooms
- Paper art: craft an expressive self portrait from colored tissue paper
- Mixed media: build insects from patterned contact paper and watercolor pencils
- By Susan Schwake. Paperback, nonfiction, 144 pages