Using his "alphabet" of a few letters and squiggles, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw a selection of tremendous trains and terrific trucks. The thirty-two pages are packed with the trucks and trains that kids-and not a few adults- really want to draw. Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full fun.

This title includes step-by-step instructions to explain and illustrate how to create elaborate, hypnotic mandalas. Simple exercises show how to make your own templates and achieve symmetry in your drawings.

Splat! traces art history through its key turning points and helps to map important art movements from the Renaissance and Impressionism to Surrealism and contemporary art. At the beginning, a spread explores how early peoples represented animals and everyday life. Then brief sections explore the stories of particular artists who helped to make important artistic innovations, including Michelangelo and the High Renaissance; Bruegel and his paintings of everyday peasant life; Manet and the shock of Impressionism; and Duchamp and the Dada revolution. Read the real-life stories of artists, such as Caravaggio, Jan Vermeer, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky and Frida Kahlo, who dared to imagine new ways of depicting the world. The achievements of these artists and the challenges, difficulties and dangers they faced are excitingly brought to life.

Get doodling, get drawing and get creative!

The how-to book for kids who love drawing. It’s easy to understand and tells them exactly what they need to know step-by-step.

• Easy-peasy tips on how to draw all sorts of things from animals to people, buildings to trees
• Space to draw and make the book their own
• Packed with fun drawing activities guaranteed to get their creative juices flowing!

Kids can try lots of brilliant stuff with the fun You Can series from Collins – write awesome stories, draw brilliant pictures, grow your own food, take amazing photos, have an outdoor adventure, save the planet – there’s something for everyone!

Merging the teaching of art innovation through design with traditional art media taught in K-12 art programs, this book introduces art theories and histories in design, offers classroom-tested pedagogical approaches that emphasize innovation, and includes a wealth of graphics and stories about bringing in curiosity, play, and creativity into the classroom. Interspersed with engaging personal narratives and anecdotes, George Szekely paints a picture of transformed art classrooms, and shows how art teachers can effectively foster student risk-taking and learning with new teaching pedagogies and methodologies. By breaking down how teacher encouragement and stimulating classroom environments can empower students and motivate them to challenge themselves, Szekely demonstrates how art rooms become sites where children act as critical makers and builders and are positioned to make major social contributions to the school and beyond.

In Performative Approaches in Arts Education, researchers, artists and practitioners from philosophy and the arts elaborate on what performative approaches can contribute to 21st century arts education. Introducing new perspectives on learning, the contributors provide a central international perspective, developing a paradigm in which the artist, teacher and researcher's form of teaching is enmeshed with content, and human agency is entangled with non-human matter. The book explores issues connected to both teaching and learning in the arts, engaging in debates about the value of meaning making in the artistic process, the way social ethos can guide performative approaches and the changes in education that performative approaches can bring. Performative Approaches in Arts Education will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of arts education, philosophy of education and education research methods. It will also appeal to teachers and teacher educators, artists and teaching artists.

Learning how to paint with watercolour paints has never been easier or more enjoyable with Artmaker: Watercolour Masterclass. This comprehensive kit offers a practical guide and all the artistic tools that you need to begin practising this exciting and evocative art style straight away!

This instructional 48-page book, Watercolour Masterclass, introduces you to the materials, equipment and skills associated with this popular technique. As a budding artist, you will be guided through a range of skills and styles of painting, before being taken step-by-step through stunning watercolour compositions with subjects ranging from a still-life composition to a picturesque canal and a fun scene of people unwinding at the beach.

This kit features everything you need to get painting right away: five sheets of 300 gsm paper, a paint palette, four different paintbrushes and ten tubes of paints. In no time at all, you’ll be painting boldly and with confidence, producing interesting and beautiful effects and creating your own unique watercolour artworks that you can proudly put on display.

Kawaii is a Japanese word meaning 'super-cute', and it's a trend that's sweeping the globe. Anything can be drawn in the kawaii style, from animals, people, vegetables and flowers to food, vehicles and household items. Expert comic book and manga artist Yishan Li shows you how to achieve amazingly cute characters in a few simple steps. Do you want to draw a singing cactus, a cheeky camera, a crying onion, or a playful panda? The choice is yours! How to Draw: Cute Kawaii uses material from the best-selling How to Draw series, plus 32 brand new projects! There are over 100 projects to choose from, each full of character and charm. Each one is developed in eight easy stages from a rough sketch of the basic shapes through to the finished, coloured drawing, making this book appealing to adults and children of all ages and abilities.

(Instrumental Folio). Now solo instrumentalists can play along with a dozen favorite songs from Disney blockbusters such as Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 2 and other beloved movies. These book/CD packs include: Beauty and the Beast * Belle * Circle of Life * Cruella De Vil * Go the Distance * God Help the Outcasts * Hakuna Matata * If I Didn't Have You * Kiss the Girl * Prince Ali * When She Loved Me * A Whole New World.

Create adorable sushi characters with Mini Sushi Bar by Klutz! Make sixteen sushi treats with this wholesome kit using clay, foam and other included materials. Learn about different types of sushi as you roll and sculpt the cutest foods at the buffet. After, pack your adorable sushi pieces in a paper-craft bento box or spread them out on a fancy dinner display, complete with miniature chopsticks! The kit includes: an instruction book for guidance different coloured clay bead eyes cheek sequins glaze mini soup bowl mini chopsticks sushi tray paper-crafts sculpting tool. What is Klutz? Klutz is a premium brand of book-based activity kits, designed to inspire creativity in every child. Our unique combination of crystal-clear instructions, custom tools and materials and hearty helpings of humour is 100% guaranteed to kick-start creativity. Super-clear instructions Open-ended Creativity Rewarding Reading Skills to Build On Everything You Need

Bob Ross continues to inspire young and old alike with his public television painting program, "The Joy of Painting," almost 30 years after the show went off the air. Bob Ross fell in love with painting and wanted to inspire others to find joy in their happy accidents. Follow his footsteps toward becoming a TV painter icon in this delightful and reverent picture book biography of a gentle soul who loved painting and teaching others how to paint too.