Smart Apple Media STEPHANIE TURNBULL SUPER SKILLS ART skills
Hints and warnings In this book boxes with a lightbulb contain handy hints for making your artwork even better Boxes with exclamation marks give safety warnings and other important advice ARTSY IDEAS All you need to create fantastic paintings drawings collages and other artsy projects are a few basic art skills and lots of imagination This book shows you all kinds of easy techniques and tips to bring out your artistic side What Is Art Art is a way of expressing yourself by creating something It could be a painting sketch model or something completely different it’s up to you Some art looks beautiful and some aims to shock or surprise Images can be amazingly realistic or dramatically distorted Mastering the skills in this book will help you discover what kind of art you want to make Two common types of art are portraits of people and still life paintings of flowers and other objects Some artists experiment with shapes and colors to create abstract art 4
Getting Started Create your own personal space for art projects whether it’s on the kitchen table or in a spare room Protect surfaces with newspaper or plastic tableclothes wear an apron or old clothes and collect all the equipment you need before you begin Don’t rush your work and remember to clean up afterwards Art supplies may include tubes bottles and brushes Store them somewhere safe SUPER FACTS Many modern artists create works called installations that involve viewers by including elements such as sculpture film music and lighting The earliest art was prehistoric drawings on cave walls showing animals and patterns These prehistoric hand paintings were found in Patagonia 5
