Showing posts with label children's art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children's art. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Art Education 11

from Teaching Art & Crafts in Elementary School by Annette Wood, Prentice Hall, 1981

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Art Education 10

ART PLUS by Ronald N. MacGregor, University of Alberta, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1977

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Art Education 9

from Doing Art Together: Discovering the Joys of Appreciating and Creating Art as Taught at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Famous Parent-child Workshop by Muriel Silberstein-Storfer, Simon & Schuster, 1982

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Paloma

Paloma Picasso on summer vacation at Villa La Californie, Cannes, France, 1957. Photographed by David Douglas Duncan.
from Goodbye Picasso by David Douglas Duncan, Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1974

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Art Education 8

A Handbook of ARTS & CRAFTS (For elementary and junior high school teachers) by Willard F. Wankelman, Philip Wigg, and Marieta Wigg, Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 1961 (1974, Third Edition) (This came in the mail yesterday as part of a Christmas package from my dear friends, Paul and Wendy. Incredible. Thanks! More to come. )

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Art Education 7

What Shall We Do in Art?: Practical Ideas for Elementary Schools by Florence M. Hart, The Book Society of Canada Ltd., Ontario, 1957

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Friday, December 17, 2010

In Books: As coyote once must have seen fit to grumble.

Our Daddy is a Lumberman, Wally Don Kennedy, 1960
My Dinner with Andre, Wallace Shawn & Andre Gregory, Screenplay for the film by Louis Malle, 1981
Fun with Lines and Curves, Elsie Ellison, 1972
Thirteen, Remy Charlip and Jerry Joyner, 1975
Dr. De Soto Goes To Africa, William Steig, 1992
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals, 1970
Doctor De Soto, William Steig, 1982
Le Petit Prince (Canadian Educational Edition) , Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1969

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Art Education 6

from ART 1-6, Department of Education, Province of Manitoba, Approved by the Minister of Education, 1974

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Art Education 5

Art in the Early Childhood Years by Lendall L. Haskell, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., Columbus, 1979

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Kathy

(embellished back cover of) The Green Book of Birds of America, Whitman Publishing Co., Wisconsin, 1941

Saturday, October 2, 2010

this is after

from Dear World: The Canadian Children's Project, Methuen/Sogides, 1986
(Karen Sum, Age 12, Don Mills, Ontario)

Sunday, September 5, 2010

m. and u.m.

A couple of years ago, my 7 year old nephew spent the afternoon at my studio. While he was there, I cut shapes out of hardboard with a jigsaw and he painted them. At his request, we made a car, a man, a gun, and two skulls. He let me keep this one.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Credit/No Credit/Marginal Credit

















Children's Drawings as Measures of Intellectual Maturity by Dale Harris, Pennsylvania State University, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963 (A Revision and Extension of the Goodenough Draw-a-Man Test) (above images are cropped details from The Requirements for Scoring the Draw-a-Woman Scale)

(This is a withdrawn copy from the Educational Child Study Center at Kent State University, Ohio)

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Simon Hughes

Circular Thought-Form, watercolour on paper, 20X28 inches, 2010
Father/Daughter Composition, acrylic and child's colour pencil drawing on paper, 20X28 inches, 2009
More here.


If you're in LA, please go see Simon's work at LAXART, opening Saturday, July 3rd.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Art Education 4

Art In The Elementary School: Drawing, Painting, and Creating for the Classroom, Marlene M. Linderman (Arizona State), WCB, Iowa, 1974 (images from Second Edition (1979) and Fourth Edition (1990))