This comprehensive art curriculum can easily be integrated into any
teacher's existing instruction and provides thrilling and rewarding
projects for elementary art students, including printmaking techniques,
tessellations, watercolors, calligraphic lines, organic form sculptures,
and value collages. Detailed lessons-developed and tested in classrooms
over many years-build on one another in a logical progression and
explore the elements of texture, color, shape, line, form, and value,
and principles such as balance (formal, informal and radial, ) unity,
contrast, movement, distortion, emphasis, pattern and rhythm. Each
lesson also represents an interdisciplinary approach that improves
general vocabulary and supports science, math, social studies, and
language arts. Though written for elementary school teachers, it can be
easily condensed and adapted for middle or even high school students. A
beautiful eight-page color insert demonstrates just how sophisticated
young children's art can be when kids are given the opportunity to
develop their skills.