Art Ninja
Seeing as an Artist
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A workbook full of practice exercises to help you find or improve your artistic talent. Start off with half pictures to discover which side of an image to begin on in order to draw pictures that are more proportional. Then add grids to aid in perspective. Implement simple lines for contour drawings starting with wire outlines. Teach the eye to follow main lines through other assignments using blind, modified, scaffolding, and cross contour exercises. Understand the power of upside down drawing to train the brain to follow lines and their angles. The introduction of positive and negative space to help you see how a figure fits on a page, not the shape that your brain wants to draw. See how blocking in shapes of an image helps you break the image into simple geometrical shapes and refine to a finished product.
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About the Book
Creating artwork is a process that takes time, patience, refinement, and the ability to transfer what we create in our minds into a beautiful piece of art. In Art Ninja, an elementary educator shares simple, practical exercises intended to help budding artists of all ages develop skills and improve artistic talent.
Phyllis Miller, who has spent nearly twenty years teaching art in elementary school, introduces new techniques, accompanying examples, and gradually progressive assignments that teach students a variety of skills and help them see as an artist. Through her guidance, students will learn how to draw proportional pictures, use grids to aid perspective, implement simple lines, train the eye to follow main lines, understand upside down drawing, and learn the power of positive and negative space as well as blocking in shapes of an image.
Art Ninja is a workbook designed to help artists discover and refine their artistic abilities and view artwork in an entirely new way.
About the Author
Phyllis Miller’s passion is guiding people to their inner artistic talents, a skill she refined teaching school for 19 years. She has her Masters degree in Elementary Education. Phyllis has five grown children who each have their own creative talents. She lives with her husband in Utah.