As I may have mentioned before, I am not the craftiest of people, though I wish I was, and I am always trying to get the boy to draw more (even if his efforts do end up a bit rude looking!)
We were therefore delighted to be offered the chance to review and giveaway two awesome art books – Modern Art Adventures and 3D Art Adventures by Maja Pitamic and Jill Laidlaw. These are lovely hardback books, which contain lots of interesting information about artists and guides on how to recreate their masterpieces.
We spent a rainy afternoon trying out one of the Modern Art activities (because we had all the stuff handy – you will for a lot of it if you are arty type) where we made a Saul Bass style illustration.
It seemed like a nice simple starter, and it really was. The instructions are nice and clear, definitely easy enough for toddler-helper age and upwards (to grown ups if you are like me!)
The boy was quite happy to blue wash several pieces of paper so we could pick the best one (apparently, I think he just wanted to slosh paint around)
I drew on the face guidelines, and he liberally applied glue to them while I ripped up strips of newspaper.
We then stuck the pieces of newspaper along the guidelines, he actually managed to do this quite well by himself:
I cut out the little heart shaped eyes and did some of the smaller bits of paper. Also some scraping off of excessive glue splodges…not that I’m a perfectionist or anything.
I’m pretty pleased with the final result. Almost as good as the original – perhaps I’ve got an artistic child after all!
There’s so much to do in these lovely books – we’ll have no excuses for being bored in the summer. I can’t wait to do some of the 3D ones!
If you would like a chance to win a copy of either Modern Art Adventures or 3D Art Adventures then you can enter the rafflecopter thingy below! Hurrah!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Oooh looks good. I am so ‘uncreative’ that I probably need one of these. Excellent face little R.
You picture looks great! Thanks for a fantastic giveaway too 🙂
#triedtested
This book looks fantastic. Oldest would love this as she loves drawing and creating masterpieces and I am really rubbish with helping her so this would be fab!!
Picture looks really good 🙂
I love the art work you son has created! An antist in the making!
This looks great. Perhaps even I could get crafty.
This looks a fab book. My nephew would love it x
This looks great something me and my kids could enjoy doing together x
What a fantastic book! I think my girls would really enjoy working through them.
my son would love this!
looks great, can’t wait to see what’s inside 🙂 xx
Looks fantastic =)
This book looks fab. Both my kids would love it but I think I would love it more. #triballove
I love art, and this would be a great source of ideas to try with my daughter. Maybe I could adapt some for the nursery class I work with.
This looks great – I am hopeless at crafty stuff too, so I think I’d probably need a bit of help in this area before E gets older! #triballove
it looks a great step by step guide -so easy to follow
What an awesome book! I have a little art lover at home who would love this!!
Ooo i’m totally in! I just mucked up a pom-pom spider for Violet so I clearly need something like this
Great prize, would love to win. Great to keep the children occupied, and gaining knowledge and skills. Love admiring Art.
Fab book.
Fantastic, I’m creative by nature but am always stuck for inspiration for projects to do with the kids – this looks perfect!
Looks fab!
Looks like a great book, my kids are always making things so would love it for them .x
Great giveaway guys, fingers crossed
My son would love this
what a great concept – my arty son would love this x
My nephew Jack would love this.
Would be great for my kids!
Looks lots of fun
This is such a fabulous book, my daughter would love this to keep her busy over the summer holidays!
OOOH this looks a great idea. My great-niece and great-nephew are getting into their crafts and we are always looking for things to entertain them. They even take their paints and paper outside when the weather is better than it is today (raining again in Yorkshire). Thank you for the chance.
love crafts
This looks fab, both for my little boy and me! 🙂
This looks great for arty fun in the Summer holidays
Looks like an interesting book. Thanks for running this comp.
I think my son would lover this. Would be a great activity for us to do together. It’s harder to find things as he gets older. X