Make art with nature
Book - 2024
Find out how the very earth beneath your feet can be used to make paints and pastels, and how flowers can be repurposed to create inks. Children can learn how to pour paint onto a canvas, how to put pencil to paper and draw, how bits of old paper can make a beautiful collage, and how different mediums can come together to create incredible prints through nature
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New York :
DK
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First American edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 127 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Audience
- Ages 6-12.
- ISBN
- 9780744091946
- Introduction and Safety Note
- Getting Started
- Useful Stuff
- Artists' Tools
- All About Color
- Drawing Tips
- Making Paint Colors
- More Paint Colors
- Brown Paint Shades
- Chalky Paint
- Journaling
- Chapter 1. From the Kitchen
- Kitchen Colors
- Coffee Ink
- Coffee Collage
- Tea Tones
- Fruit-Tea Flamingo
- Sepia Birds
- Organic Inks
- Beeswax Crayons
- Color Magic
- Onion-Skin Ink
- Colorful Creatures
- Pulp to Paper
- Creature Collage
- Patterns and Prints
- Cardboard Stamps
- Chapter 2. Beach Art
- Charcoal
- Charcoal Landscapes
- Charcoal Ink
- Charcoal Prints
- Inky Animals
- Chapter 3. Rocks and Soil
- Hunting for Rocks
- Rocks and Minerals
- Rock Paints
- Pastel Chalk
- Animal Prints
- Cave Art
- Furry Friends
- Dorodango
- Chapter 4. Plant Colors
- Solar Dyeing
- Flower Power
- Flower Pounding
- Pressed Flowers
- Flower Painting
- Petal Patterns
- Fall Crats
- Bundle Dyeing
- Botanical Monoprints
- Chapter 5. Go Explore
- Explorers' Tools
- In the Backyard
- Bug Hotel
- At the Beach
- Beach Canvases
- In the Woods
- Den Building
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgments