Make the connection between art and life. This integrated approach meets all the latest objectives for art education with projects for art production, history, criticism, and aesthetics. Students learn to analyze and discuss art as well as determine the historical and cultural influences in art.

Let students' imagination run wild as they learn to draw 17 different letter styles to create unique creations of slimy letters, fuzzy letters, and even super heroes! Ideal for young authors and illustrators, this book demonstrates many special effects and shows how to use these creative alphabets to make personalized books, comic books or comic strips, as well as signs, posters, and banners.

You won't believe what you can draw with these easy-to-follow, step-by-step lessons for drawing animals, people, holiday objects, and characters. Use the special magic of cartooning to illustrate concepts across the curriculum and enhance your classroom environment.

Here are 50 brief biographies about people who have made important contributions in the fine arts. These people of the fine arts come from diverse backgrounds, from different parts of the world, and from our past and present. They highlight a wide variety of the fine arts. Reading and social studies activities, and suggestions for further reading are included with each biography.