Product Description: Art doesn't have to be an expensive production of paints, brushes, and other supplies. When it comes to encouraging kids' creativity, the everyday items we have around the house can be just as good as fancy art studio materials. Barron's new Art Painting series shows children just how easy it is to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary with dozens of really unique and totally do-able projects using supplies that can be found in the kitchen, pantry, or linen closet! With a little imagination, simple items like coffee, sponges, bottle caps, aluminum foil, old newspaper, and even cotton swabs can be used to create a masterpiece! Clearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions include material lists, advice for preparing the workspace, and notes for when an adult's help is needed...read more

Product Description: Art doesn't have to be an expensive production of paints, brushes, and other supplies. When it comes to encouraging kids' creativity, the everyday items we have around the house can be just as good as fancy art studio materials. Barron's new Art Painting series shows children just how easy it is to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary with dozens of really unique and totally do-able projects using supplies that can be found in the kitchen, pantry, or linen closet! With a little imagination, simple items like coffee, sponges, bottle caps, aluminum foil, old newspaper, and even cotton swabs can be used to create a masterpiece! Clearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions include material lists, advice for preparing the workspace, and notes for when an adult's help is needed...read more

Product Description: Art doesn't have to be an expensive production of paints, brushes, and other supplies. When it comes to encouraging kids' creativity, the everyday items we have around the house can be just as good as fancy art studio materials. Barron's new Art Painting series shows children just how easy it is to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary with dozens of really unique and totally do-able projects using supplies that can be found in the kitchen, pantry, or linen closet! With a little imagination, simple items like coffee, sponges, bottle caps, aluminum foil, old newspaper, and even cotton swabs can be used to create a masterpiece! Clearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions include material lists, advice for preparing the workspace, and notes for when an adult's help is needed...read more

Product Description: Following on from the hugely successful Stick Book, The Paint Book is bursting with equally inventive and imaginative ideas and things to do for children, this time with all things paint. The book is packed full of projects and creative inspiration and has sections on fun effects, crafty art, prints and doodles, painting pictures, creating brushes and feet and finger painting...read more

Product Description: Presents information about occupations in painting, describes the history and creative aspects of painting, profiles famous painters, and offers guidance on how to generate income and create a successful career.

Product Description: Warm, vibrant, and amusing, a joyous picture book exploration of the messy and marvelous world of art, encouraging all children to pick up a paint brushWhether one drips, dots, daubs—or carefully dabs—there is a wonderful world of art waiting to be explored, and this exuberant book reassures all children that art is for them...read more

Product Description: A colorful, accessible and engaging introduction to art history that children will remember for years to come. It's never too early to introduce children to art. Featuring thirteen painters from a variety of historical periods and styles, this book demonstrates just how interesting and exciting art can be...read more

Introduces young readers to cool craft projects to stimulate individual creativity.

Product Description: What better way to learn to appreciate art than to make a game of it? One letter of the alphabet is concealed in each of these 26 paintings by some of the masters of Western art, including Picasso, Dalí, Van Gogh, Matisse, Giotto, Chagall, Mondrian, Hopper, Kandinsky, Klee, Magritte, and Bosch...read more

Set in an upstate New York convent in 1906, this novel depicts the drama of a seventeen-year-old postulant who discovers unexplainable wounds on her body that many believe are of miraculous origin

This title provides a visually appealing look at art in all its forms that will create an understanding of what 'art' is and promote appreciation of the aesthetic within a historical context.Each title features a timeline of key developments and movements within the discipline. It offers guidance on understanding and appreciating works of art, using examples from a range of time periods and movements.

Product Description: This heavily illustrated book featuring the world's greatest painters is an excellent introduction for young readers to artists and their works.Whether it’s Leonardo da Vinci’s mysterious Mona Lisa, Vermeer’s vibrant depictions of light, Van Gogh’s mesmerizing brush strokes, or Matisse’s playful cutouts, the art featured here is introduced in a format and style that will appeal to children...read more

Product Description: The second entry in this innovative series introduces children to color in art. Little ones see flowers, birds, trees, nautical scenes, and sunsets painted with a very basic palette of colors and accompanied by brief text. The artists represented range from old masters to some of today’s most renowned painters...read more

The concept of color in art is introduced to preschoolers as simple figures, such as birds, flowers, trees, and vegetables, are presented through a collection of masterpieces from celebrated artists, such as Van Gogh and Hiroshige.

Product Description: Suitable for the children of ages birth to 4 years, this title introduces David Scott - an artist who shows the tools of his trade: easel, palette, and brushes and then takes us to the art gallery that sells his paintings that hang in the homes of many people.

Product Description: What is kinesthetic art? What is impasto? What group of artists created dream-like paintings? When youre at an art museum, you see many different kinds of paintings. We know that some pictures of important people were painted so we remember what they looked like...read more

Presents eight project ideas involving paint, including a funky flowerpot, a still life with fruit, and a camouflaged toy box.

Introducing youngsters to fourteen masterpieces of art, this exceptional concept book teaches readers how to look for colors in a whole new way, featuring an interactive I Spy game that is perfect for the whole family!

Provides an introduction to the Austrian artist's work, presenting examples of his paintings with a discussion of their historical background and critical interpretation.

Product Description: Sponging, stamping, splattering, or filling in shapes of color -- painting is such a blast! Holiday designs are always favorites in kids' painting classes, so we filled this book with 16 fun projects for holidays throughout the year...read more

Presents examples of the artist's work accompanied by background and interpretive material.

Explains how to locate a house to buy, negotiate an offer, get a mortgage, use the Internet to finance and sell one's home, increase resale value, and sell without a real estate agent. (view table of contents)