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Picture This!
Transform Everyday Objects into Awesome Drawings!
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The book features full-colour photographs alongside playful suggestions for drawing animals, machines, monsters, robots, and instruments. Its simple exercises are designed especially for early drawers, encouraging kids to create their own unique sketches by drawing around familiar objects.
Ideal for children aged 7 and up, Picture This! invites creative exploration and artistic fun using things found at home.
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Perfect for creative children aged 7 and over who enjoy drawing and imaginative activities.
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Description
This witty and inventive drawing book encourages young readers to unleash their imaginations by transforming everyday objects into something unexpected!
Turn a bottle into a rocket, a biscuit into a bedsheet, and donuts into monster truck wheels with this wacky and entertaining guide. Whether it's animals, funny machines, monsters, robots, or instruments, the young artist has been supplied with plenty of madcap ideas and suggestions to spark their creativity. These appear as full-colour photographs which children can draw around to create something entirely different.
Picture This! offers:
- The fun and inventive transformations stimulate imagination
- The simple exercises are perfect for early drawers
- Encourages children to create their own sketches
With these new skills, children can transform their own found objects from around the home. Ideal for creative kids aged 7+.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781398811133
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Arcturus
Illustration: Paperback
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Gareth Conway
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 6.0mm
Width: 230.0mm
Height: 260.0mm
Weight: 319g
Pages: 96
About the Author
Gareth Conway graduated from The Surrey Institute of Art and Design with a degree in animation. He has worked on several successful children's animated television series as well as illustrating books. Gareth lives in Devon with his wife and daughter who are his biggest inspiration and harshest critics in equal measure.
William Potter is a prolific author of children's non-fiction. He has also written and edited a wide range of well-known comics and magazines, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Comic, Marvel Fact Files, Marvel Chess Specials and DC Chess Collection. He lives in Haslemere, UK.
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