‘Hand with Real Nail Polish’, by my daughter age 9.
My daughter’s art blog is here.
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For home schooling my daughter and teaching art-class to children and young students, I work with the following books…..(see list below)……
I’ve listed my books age/grade-wise but your child or student may function better in another age/grade group. Some children understand art with an amazing and wonderful spontaneity but are shocked by -for instance- Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ or Baroque paintings of biblical scene’s. Please understand that art-loving and eager children can be smart about art but are very sensitive to cruelty. For young students art is mainly about enchantment and enriching their lives with dreams and colours.
Paula Kuitenbrouwer
HANDS-ON BOOKS:
Joan Miro (6 sheets of re-usable stickers). ISBN 978-1-84507-808-9
Colouring Book Kandinsky ISBN 978-3-7913-3712-8
Paul Klee (6 sheets of re-usable stickers) ISBN 1-84507-677-X
Monet, My Sticker Art Gallery, by Carola Armstrong, 20 Re-usable stickers. A biography with stickers.
Colour and Art Famous Masterpieces ISBN 0-7105-1400-X
Colour and Art The Impressionists ISBN 0-7105-1400-X
Colour Your Own Cezanne Paintings, rendered by Marty Noble.
Harvesting Dreams: Hundertwasser for Kids by Barbara Stieff . In Dutch available at Pantharei Publishers, like Van Gogh voor Kinderen & Paul Klee voor Kinderen.
Van Gogh for Kids by Margaret E. Hyde.
Not real books, but small booklet with stickers:
-Kandinsky, 16 art stickers. Dover Fine Art Stickers.
-Six Kandinsky Cards, Dover Publications.
-Japanese Prints, 16 Art Stickers, Dover Fine Art Stickers.
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For the young children/students: (Grade 1 and up/age 4 and up):
The series ‘Smart About Art’, for instance
‘Frida Kalho, The Artist Who Painted Herself’, by Margaret Frith.
‘Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paintings that Smile’, by True Kelley.
‘Henry Matisse, Drawing with Scissors’ by Keesia Johnson and Jane O’Connor.
The Katie Series:
Katie and the Mona Lisa, by James Mayhew.
Katie’s Picture Show, by James Mayhew.
Katie Meets the Impressionists, by James Mayhew.
Katie and the Sunflowers’, by James Mayhew.
Bijou, Bonbon & Beau, The Kittens Who Danced for Degas, by Joan Sweeney.
Camille and the Sunflowers, a Story about Vincent van Gogh by Laurence Anholt.
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For the students age 6-7+:
The Little Klimt, by Catherine de Duve.
The Little Matisse, by Catherine de Duve.
The Big Museum, by Catherine de Duve.
The Great Rubens Workshop, Discover the Antwerp painter’s great workshop. (www.happymuseum.com)
Linnea in Monet’s Garden by Chistina Bjork.
Degas and the Little Dancer by Laurence Anholt.
The Life and Work of Wassily Kandinsky.
The Little Story of Picasso by Fina Duran i Riu. ISBN 84-85984-71-4.
Monet, My Sticker Art Gallery, by Carola Armstrong, 20 Re-usable stickers. A biography with stickers.
Breughel’s The Fair. Story by Ruth Craft. ISBN 0-397-31698-4.
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea, by Thomas Locker.
Come Look With Me, Exploring Landscape Art with Children, by Gladys S. Blizzard.
Come Look With Me, World of Play, by Gladys S. Blizzard.
The Art Book for Children, Phaidon.
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For students age 8-10+:
All the artists books by Mike Venezia:
Salvadore Dali, by Mike Venezia.
Georgia O’Keeffe.
Da Vinci.
Johannes Vermeer.
Botticelli.
Titian.
Diego Rivera.
Georges Seurat.
Andy Warhol.
Rembrandt.
Michaelangelo.
Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Marc Chagall.
Raphael.
Edgar Degas.
Paul Dezanne.
There are more Venezia’s, please, check your online bookshop.
Antonio’s Apprenticeship, Painting a Fresco in Renaissance Italy, by Taylor Morrison.
The Renaissance and New World, Giovanni Caselli.
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For young middle-high students, parents, grown-up, grandparents:
How To Draw Anything, by Mark Linley.
Lives of the Great Artists, by Charlie Ayres (Thames & Hudson).
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Teachers Books well known and used among home schoolers:
Art in Story, Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children.
Discovering Great Artists, Hands On activities for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters, by MaryAnn F. Kohl.
The Annotated Mona Lisa, by Carol Strickland.
All My Own Work, Adventures in Art, http://www.franceslincolm.com ISBN 1-84507-353-3.
Feel free to copy, link or forward this book list.
If you have any recommendations, please use the comment option to add your recommended book titles.
Paula
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