Art for Fun Projects

This is a FABULOUS, educational art book that is perfect for homeschoolers, art teachers, or anyone interested in learning about and experimenting with some of the styles of various masters. Rather than being chronolgoical, this book is structured by artistic subjects: 1. People 2. Landscapes 3. Sports and Leisure 4. Still Life 5. Animals and each chapter provides about 10 different projects. Each project highlights a famous painting, and then provides instructions for a piece of art that uses the famous painting as a stylistic jumping point. From ancient cave art to surrealist modern art, artists of all ages are represented. Some are highlighted in more than one section, like Monet. We've done several of these projects and I am considering starting an art co-op or summer camp using this book as the spine. One more note, this book is full color and beautiful to look at. Another book, Discovering Great Artists, has very good content but the pages are black and white and it doesn't show samples of the famous artists' work. Discovering Great Artists does, however, provide nice biographical sketches. I own both books, but refer to Art For Fun far more frequently. I highly, highly recommend this book. My toddler got hold of this book and tore at least a dozen pages to shreds. I could not bear to lose even a single page of content of this book and I spent considerable time piecing and taping the pages back together and into the book. That is NOT something I would have done for just any book!!