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What is your favorite resource for learning to draw/paint for kids?? Esp. my son, who is 9 now. He tends to be "resistant" to much instruction and likes to be pretty open-ended/freeform but then he says he wants art lessons. Maybe something encouraging/inspiring vs. very rigid??
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My 9 year old daughter really likes Artistic Pursuits the middle level (grades 4-6 I think). It's pretty impressive. She does it on her own, no help from me unless she has a question or wants to share something. The first book is black and white drawing lessons, the second book is color.
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I think this blog offers excellent projects that are simple enough to follow yet offer excellent presentation of art concepts plus beautiful products. And it's free!
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For learning to draw, my favorite is hands-down The Drawing Textbook by Bruce Mcintyre. Don't let the name fool you. It's a simple program that can be done independently. It's extremely inexpensive - I see it's $8.99 right now at Amazon. Each day there is a little sketch to complete (there are 222 sketches total) that illustrates/puts into practice a drawing skill (like shadowing or perspective). They start very, very simply and build on each other. This little book is completed independently around here, no input or instruction from you is needed. 9 is a perfect age to start it. My 8 yo has just started working his way through it.
I haven't found anything I can recommend on painting though...not yet anyway. Right now, we look at works of art, discuss their composition, the materials the artist worked in, the lines of the painting, the light in the painting, the perspective, play of shadow, etc. And then, I give the children as close to the same tools the artist had at their disposal and let them create. I'd like something (a reference/guide) that could give me/us a little more guidance, but this does work and I can find so much information on the internet about the painting and artist that I hesitate to spend $$ on another art book...of which I have several.
I encourage creative expression time during my Fine Arts Fridays so that there is time for them to create that is open-ended. There is a balance of art appreciation and free expression that seems to work on our Fine Arts Fridays and we frequent several different mediums from week to week - usually inspired by a piece of artwork, or a picture book, or a period of history, or something we read about, etc. It just seems to flow naturally, I guess.
Don't know if this helped any.
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Topic: excellent art instruction?
