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Title: Drawing With Children: A Creative Method for Adult Beginners, Too by Mona Brookes ISBN: 0-87477-827-1 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful for teachers & homeschoolers
Comment: I decided to teach my children art (ages 5 & 7) during their X-mas break. This book served as the curriculum. It was excellent. I xeroxed the exercises (as instructed in the book), my kids were focused during the lessons. After a total of 6 hours of instruction... they are very good drawers. They have developed their spatial awareness, which was my aim. "Drawing with Children" and its 8 basic shapes methodology is excellent for anyone who wants to teach or learn art in a school or home environment. Especially if the teacher is not a practicing artist.
Rating: 3
Summary: The title and canned reviews can fool you.
Comment: This book is more about teaching art than teaching kids how to draw. More theory than fun. I rate the book 3 stars rather than higher because there are very few simple to use drawing techniques, the kind of techniques found in the "50 Nifty" and the "How to Draw" series of drawing books featuring simple characters, trucks, airplanes, animals, and monsters that grab kid's imaginations. "Drawing with Children" is more a text for art teachers than for use by classroom teachers, Scout leaders, and parents trying to help kids ages 6 to 11 learn how to draw for fun. I'll be ready for this book in about three years, but I can't start kids at this level.
Rating: 5
Summary: Love it! Love it! Love it!
Comment: I am 33 years old and have absolutely no artistic ability - or so I thought. I've always been interested in learning how to draw, but no matter what books I consulted, I still couldn't get it. The techniques presented there assumed you already knew some basics, but I didn't. My mother even told me that drawing is inherited, and since there is nobody in my family who draws, I felt I had no chance.
Then I found this book. The first thing you are supposed to do before any instruction is to draw a scene a house, person, tree, bushes, etc. My picture looked like a 4 year old drew it. Now less than one week into the book, I am on lesson 3 with 2 more to go, and I am astounded at my progress. It's simply night and day. I get so engrossed in my drawings now that 3 hours will go by in a flash. My husband is now starting the lessons because he's amazed at my drawings. Today I even started sketching my husband's face as he was eating. It took all of 5 minutes and it turned out beautifully, if I do say so myself. Plus, I hadn't yet started the lesson on drawing humans. I sketch everything in sight and just can't seem to get enough.
You may not need this book if if you already know how to draw and need more detailed instruction on technique, but definitely get this book if you need the basics of beginning drawing. You will not be disappointed. Drawing is not inherited, but developed. I am proof of that.
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Title: Drawing for Older Children and Teens: A Creative Method That Works for Adult Beginners, Too by Mona Brookes ISBN: 0874776619 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: More Mudpies to Magnets: Science for Young Children by Elizabeth A. Sherwood, Robert A. Williams, Robert E. Rockwell, Roger A. Williams ISBN: 0876591500 Publisher: Gryphon House Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Natural World (The Usborne Illustrated Encyclopedia) by Lisa Watts ISBN: 0746016891 Publisher: E D C Publications Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Art of Teaching Art to Children : In School and at Home by Nancy Beal, Gloria Bley Miller ISBN: 0374527709 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 30 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Usborne Book of World History (Guided Discovery Program) by Jenny Tyler, Gee Robyn, Anne Millard ISBN: 0860209598 Publisher: E D C Publications Pub. Date: July, 1986 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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