How to draw

28 Jun, 2010 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, Art, Frugal Family, Recommended Resources

How to draw for the Catholic Home School Child. Looking for good books is sometimes like looking for a needle in a hay stack. This year I chose CHC (Catholic Heritage Curriculum) Art Appreciation curriculum for my our main Art study. My ultimate goal was to find a religious art appreciation curriculum for younger (elementary) age group that takes them through all the many icons explaining the meanings behind the pictures as well as what type of medium they are painted on, era and a bit about the artist. CHC’s was the closest I could come to it.

I did run across Miraculous Images of our Lady 100 famous Catholic statues and portraits and use as a partial art study.

You may already have your Catholic religious arts book. But sometimes if your like me your looking for something more on the side. Here is a list of books that may be a useful resource for a child learning to draw (something other than Catholic art, which I have to admit I would love it if that were all my child drew.) Yet, it’s easy to stretch your budget by adding a few of these books to your collection.

Dover How To Draw ...as low as $2.47 This book makes it a snap to learn the basics of sketching familiar objects and animals. Simply by combining circles, ovals, rectangles, crescents, and other simple shapes, you’ll learn not only how to master the fundamentals of shape development, but how to produce remarkable likenesses of such common objects as a pear, grapes, a flowerpot, a tricycle, a sailboat, and a house, as well as portraits of a cat, a rabbit, fish, a turtle, and other animals. By combining several subjects on one piece of paper, you can even create a tableau of assorted fruit or a menagerie of animals. And once a picture is completed, of course, it is ready to be colored. Paperback, 32 pages.ISBN:486415392. DOVER

...as low as $2.47 This easy-to-follow book shows youngsters–and other would-be artists–how to use simple shapes to draw realistic likenesses of nature’s loveliest blossoms. Simple step-by-step diagrams make it easy to draw 30 flowers, including the sunflower, daisy, bluebell, Easter lily, rose, tulip, carnation, iris, and others. Once the flowers are completed, students can color them to create a lovely special effect. A brief caption for each flower provides such information as color, blooming time, and where it can be found. Paperback, 32 pages.ISBN:486413373. DOVER

Dover How to Draw Faces...as low as $2.47This easy-to-follow guide, with its step-by-step diagrams, makes it a snap to learn the basics of sketching the human face. By combining circles, ovals, squiggly lines and other shapes, would-be cartoonists can create realistic portraits of young girls modeling a variety of hairstyles; boys in baseball hats, curly-headed babies, older men and women, and more. Dover Original. Instructions. 30 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Paperback book measures 8 1/4 in. x 11 in., 32 pages. ISBN:0486429016. Dover Publications.

Dover How To Draw Insects ...as low as $2.47This easy-to-follow guide makes it simple for youngsters–and aspiring artists of all ages–to create recognizable likenesses of 30 different insects. By following clear, step-by-step illustrations, nature artists will learn how to use circles, ovals, and other shapes to draw simple, lifelike portraits of a grasshopper, monarch butterfly, tarantula, caterpillar, cicada, praying mantis, walkingstick, scorpion, yellow jacket, wasp, carpenter ant, moth, and other insects. Paperback, 32 pages.ISBN:486405893. DOVER

Dover How to Draw Aquarium Animals...as low as $2.47Easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations help developing artists of all ages draw animals commonly found at the aquarium. Use simple basic shapes to create accurate likenesses of the angelfish, octopus, penguin, clownfish, lobster, sea lion, starfish, whale, and 24 other creatures of the deep. Appropriate for ages 5 – 10. By Barbara Soloff Levy. Dover Publications, 2003. 30 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Paperback. Measures 8 1/4 in. x 11 in. ISBN 0486430588

Watson-Guptill How to Draw What You See How to Draw What You See ISBN: 0823023753...as low as $13.35When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill’s best-seller list—and it has remained there ever since. “I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them—realistically,” wrote Rudy de Reyna in his introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned to draw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, using de Reyna’s methods. How to Draw What You See shows artists how to recognize the basic shape of an object—cube, cylinder, cone, or sphere—and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how much detail it contains. Book specifications: paperback, 176 pgs., 7 in. x 10 in. Publisher: Watson-Guptill, 1996.

Blitz Video Kits "How To Draw Cartoon Animals"...as low as $11.70All kits contain an easy-to-follow video tape, instructional wall chart, marker pen, sketch pencil, sharpener, drawing pad and art portfolio/lap top drawing board. Recommended for ages 6 to adult.

Dover How To Draw Wild Animals ...as low as $2.47It’s easy to draw charming renditions of 30 favorite wild animals with this delightful guide. Would-be artists of all ages will find it a snap to follow simple, step-by-step instructions that show you how to use basic shapes to draw a gorilla, koala, penguin, mustang, buffalo, alligator, cobra, ostrich, and 22 other wild animals. As you create a gallery of drawings you’ll be proud to display for friends and family, you’ll also receive a solid introduction to the fundamentals of line, shape, and dimension. Paperback, 32 pages.ISBN:486408213. DOVER

All the books listed below can be found new for as little as $2.47Dover How To Draw Dogs Dover How To Draw Cats Dover How to Draw Farm Animals ISBN: 0486451682 Dover How To Draw Birds How To Draw Birds