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• Amazon-Verkaufsrang: #257795 in Bücher
• Veröffentlicht am: 2005-06-22
• Originalsprache: Englisch
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• 48 Seiten

Amazon.com
With little more than some ink, paper, and your own fingers, you can become an artist! Caldecott recipient Ed Emberley, author of Go Away, Big Green Monster!, as well as many creative art books (Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book, Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World, etc.), shows readers how to turn fingerprints into lions, basketball players, reindeer, "bean buddies," submarines, rainbow dragons, trees, even watermelon. Emberley provides straightforward information about materials and techniques on the very first page, then sets readers free to discover and explore. Step by step, Emberley takes artists through the process, showing, for each picture, a fingerprint first, then adding simple lines and other fingerprints to make the print evolve into an entirely new entity. A mouse, for example, starts out as a brown oval fingerprint. Next, two pink fingertip-print ears are added. A black dot makes a nose. Two smaller dots become the eyes, and finally a few lines turn this blob into a bewhiskered mouse head. Young artists can spend hours creating designs, patterns, and decorative scenes with this fun technique, especially if they move on to advanced finger-printing on the last page. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

From Publishers Weekly
Ed Emberley adds to his popular drawing books series with his paper-over-board Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book. An opening spread describes the necessary "ingredients" for using fingertips as paintbrushes (inkpads, poster paints, food coloring, etc.); in the following spreads, Emberley leads by example, adding one element at a time to show how to make a frog, for instance, or a bumblebee in "The Garden" or animals and birds in subsequent spreads. He also offers ideas for seasons, holidays and feelings. ( Apr.)
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From Booklist
Ages 6-8. In his latest instructional art title, Emberley branches out from his Great Thumbprint Drawing Book (1977) by bringing all fingers into play. Using his signature step-by-step approach and moving from easy to advanced images, he shows how to develop fingerprint images into figures, animals, faces displaying every emotion, and more. An opening spread gives tips on materials and usage, and concluding spreads encourage young artists to find their own patterns and figures by expanding on the rigid copying suggested in most of the book. Emberley fans who have already worked their way through his other titles will keep this in circulation. Gillian Engberg
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