Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants
Following the success of Anatomy for the Artist and Sketch Book for the Artist, Botany for the Artist teaches readers in step-by-step illustrations and expert narrative instruction how to master the art of drawing plants. Page after page of beautiful, detailed photographs complement Sarah Simblet s illustrations showing how an understanding of botany really helps you to draw plants drawing classes provide a wealth of practical how-to advice and pages from Sarah's own sketchbooks as well as inspirational master classes reveal how other artists-from 17th century masters to contemporary botanical illustrators-have portrayed plants throughout the years.
Teaching Young Children to Draw: Imaginative Approaches to Representational Drawing
This illustrated handbook on teaching young children to draw has been developed using what the authors call the "negotiated drawing approach". It presents this approach to teachers, demonstrating how it works, ideas for future work, and concrete evidence that it actually produces good results.
Comprehensive Read & Comprehend, Gr. 2-3 is a compilation of the various duplicating master comprehension books in reproducible form. It is designed for teachers who prefer or require all the comprehension skills at their fingertips. It contains 20 pages of each of these five categories: Drawing Conclusions, Vocabulary Development, Sequencing, Main Idea and Following Directions.
A Clumsy Encounter offers an interrogation of inclusive education by exploring the point at which dyspraxia and drawing from observation meet within formal learning environments. Drawing on stories of individual experience, this book seeks to promote the interrogation of implicit educational practices. Here the complexity of observational drawing is examined not within a closed community of art education but within the social and cultural domain of other critical debates within education, specifically those related to inclusion. Pupils do not experience inclusion and exclusion in the abstract but through discipline-based and situated practices.
Tweens and teens will love drawing the outrageous monsters lurking in Manga Monster Madness. There's no need to fear putting pencil on paper with: 50 easy-to-follow lessons for drawing everything from aliens and mutants to the supernatural; Tips and advice on drawing basics like colour theory, shading and anatomy; Fun sidebars listing each monster's name, origin and legend; This is the only book on the market designed to teach 11 to 16-year-olds how to draw monsters. Combining basic drawing instruction with the wildly popular Manga style, it's sure to be a hit.
