Art for Kids: Drawing

By Kathryn Temple

Subjects: Art, Juvenile literature, Nonfiction, Drawing, Dessin, Juvenile Nonfiction, Ouvrages pour la jeunesse, Drawing, technique, Crafts, Technique, Drawing, juvenile literature

Description: What do children hope to create when they put pencil to paper? An accurate likeness of the things they see, of course. With this imaginative, informative, and amply-illustrated guide to drawing, it's amazingly easy for kids to make those art dreams come true. After a brief overview of tools and materials, the entertaining hands-on activities begin with contour drawing techniques. With the help of lots of exercises, budding artists will learn the basic elements of shapes (lines, dots, circles) and see how to combine them to make familiar forms. They'll find out how to produce the illusion of volume with shading techniques; create perspective; accurately recreate landscapes, people, animals, and nature; develop interesting compositions; and more.