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 To start drawing you only need a pencil
and a little imagination...

Characters at night guided by the phosphorescent rivers of the carnelians, by

Joan Miró

This artist created weird faces and fantastic

creatures with doodles... Try it yourself.
 Drawings that himles
One way to draw animals is from
simple figures, such as circles, squares and triangles.
A very famous artist named Rembrandt
made this drawing of an elephant. If you look closely,

Study of uh elefhCe, by Rembrandt van Rijn

you will see that
the elephant's body is oval-shaped and its
legs are rectangular.
 Uh elephant

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Draw the oval of the Draw a long, curled Color the drawing
body. Make a circle with trunk. Add an ear and add the face
four rectangular legs. and a tail. and paw nails.

Draw a large oval to make 'w'

the body and a
smaller one for 7 ' the head. Add some triangles
for ears, four rectangles for legs and a curled tail.
I draw some rounded feet.

Uh mold Vh pohi
Start by drawing a large oval for the Start by making the body with a large
body and a smaller one for the head. oval, and the head with a smaller one.
Add arms, legs and a curled tail. Join them with an elongated neck and
add some sticks for legs.

Add two round ears

Draw the helmet
and mane.
 Draw a wavy line that intersects at
several points. Color each section a
different shade.

co rayd5 Dots

To draw a turtle, make a shell

in the shape of a semicircle,
like this one.

Add the head, four legs

and tail.

Draw the silhouette of a fish and draw several Draw a dog by

crossed lines over the drawing. Color each making scratches
section a different shade. with the pencil.

Draw a rectangular body and

then add the head, legs and
tail.
 Diffusions

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Four Dancers, by Edgar Degas
This artist used soft, diffuse colors. You can achieve the
same effect with colored chalks.

Draw a small circle

with chalk. Rub the
drawing with your
finger to blend the
color, as in this You can mix two colors
example. by blending them with
your finger, like here.
 Vh sheep
Draw the sheep's body with spirals using
chalk and blend them with your finger.
Add the head, ears and legs.

Uh tree
Draw the tree with brown and green
chalk. Blur the green and it will give the
impression that they are the leaves seen
from a distance.

Vh cohejo Two chicks

Draw a rabbit with chalk Draw two chicks with chalk and
and blend it to make it look blend the feathers to give them a
like a stuffed animal. soft, voluminous look.
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 There are many ways to paint. This dot painting
was done with brushes, but you can achieve a
very similar effect with your fingers.

With the tip of the dcdí With the whole finger

Puhtios

To make a drawing like

this, paint a dot with the tip
of your finger and then add
circles of dots around it.

Then paint dotted lines coming out

from the last circle to the outside.
 Paint an underwater landscape
with lots of little animals of all
colors on black paper.

Paint the body of the

fish with your finger.
Add an eye, a fin and
the tail. Paint scales
all over the body with
your fingertip.

Oh heart
Use wavy brush strokes
to create a coral reef.
Mh little fish
Paint the body of the
fish with your finger
and add a triangle for
a tail. Paint stripes
with a brush.
A sea turtle
Paint with your finger an
oval shell-shaped figure.
Add the head, tail and some
rounded fins. Paint the eyes
and the shell drawing with
your fingertip.

A mequs
Paint the head with
your finger. Add the
eyes with your little
finger. Paint the
mouth and some
coiled tentacles with
a brush.

Uh
OCTOPUS
Paint a round head with your
finger. Stamp the entire finger
eight times to make eight
legs. Paint the face with a
brush and add two rosy
cheeks with your finger.
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 An elephant
Paint an oval body and add
the trunk and two legs.
Paint an ear in another
color, add the eyes with two
dots and, finally, draw the
tail.

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Paint the body and neck. Add the
head, ears, four legs and the tip of
the tail.

Draw the stripes on the

body and mane with a
crayon of a different color.

A lion
Paint a round body and four legs.
Add a round mane of a darker
shade. Then paint the head and
ears on top and let it dry. Draw the
face and tail with a crayon.
Flowers on red fog, by Marc Chagall
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 Cold and melancholic blues
This artist has used many shades of light blue to paint
rain falling on a pond.

Rain, by David Hockney

Blue paintings usually emit freshness and calm. Create

your own water scenes with blue paint.
 Drips and splashes
Pure painting of raindrops falling
splashing, covering the paper with
water. Then he dips a brush into
watered-down paint and splashes it
onto the paper. Lift the paper on
one side to allow the paint to drip
and let it dry in this position.

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Paint some blue fish on the paper
and, before the paint dries, sprinkle
some grains of salt on top. They will
look like scales.

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Surf
To paint waves, draw wavy lines
with white and blue crayons and
then, using a paintbrush, spread
watery blue paint over the top.
 The pencils
Artists use brushes of different sizes and apply paint
with very diverse brush strokes.

Attract, by Raoul Dufy

In this painting, the artist painted the

sky with a wide brush and using broad
strokes. To paint the waves, however,
he used wavy brush strokes with a
finer brush.
 Paint the sky with broad brush strokes
and then add some clouds with circular
movements of the brush.

When the paint is dry, paint some

diamonds with a finer brush. Add the
kite strings and ribbons with an even
finer paintbrush or marker.

Uh flmehco
Paint the body and neck of
the flamingo with a medium
brush. Add two long legs and
a beak with a finer brush.

Add the smoke

with large,
spiraling brush
otura, draw the windows, with a black marker
gcadolaP
strokes.
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A treh that vapor

To paint a landscape with a steam train,
first paint the sky and a hill with broad
brush strokes. Then draw a train with
many cars.
 To make a f'or,
stamp the sheet several times
, overlapping
■the impressions

Make a few lumps in the

center with your finger.

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 This artist has painted a colorful tropical
landscape featuring monkeys. Create your own
jungle with these stamping techniques.
To stamp with a leaf, cover it with thick paint and press it onto a piece of
paper.

Carefully peel off the sheet to see the print it has left.
 Create a jungle landscape with
leaves of different shapes and
sizes.

Stamp lots of flowers

with leaves, add long
green stems and
paint several vines.

A butterfly
Stamp the imprint of a narrow,
elongated leaf to paint the body. Ha?
the four wings with another color and
paint the eyes with the tip of your
finger.

Vh bud
To paint a bud, stamp
three or four
overlapping petals and
add a stem and one or
two leaves.
 Uh
parrot
Paint an oval body and a round
head. Add an eye and a beak.
Stamp the imprint of an
elongated leaf several times to
make the tail. Use a wider
sheet for the wings.

Beetles
Paint an oval and
add a line dividing it
in two. Paint the
eyes and moles
with the tip of your
finger.
Uh
caterpillar
Draw a wavy line.
Add an eye and many
legs.
Circles and figures
Stamp lines and shapes in
different colors to create
interesting compositions.

Uh owl
Stamp the eyes with the tip of a carrot
and a bottle cap. Add the beak with a
piece of cardboard.

Print zigzag lines on a small piece of

cardboard to make a drawing of the body.

Arch some cardboard pieces to

stamp the body, wings and ears.

Uh, sail axis arc

Stamp a sailing boat with several strips of cardboard. Add
some stripes or a skull to your candles.
 Uh rocket
To print a Rabbit in negative,
place two coins on the paper:
one for the body and one for the
head. Glue a ball of adhesive
clay to make a tail and place two
leaves for ears.

Uha mhzh
Mold a pipe cleaner into the
shape of an apple. Glue two
blobs of sticky clay in the center
to make the seeds and a real leaf
on the stem.

Use very diverse

objects to see what
negative they leave.
 Splashing with
the paintbrush
Splash paint on paper and
cut out shapes to make
your collages.

Uh
bumblebee

'. ' ' 1 a brush in paint at 9. Let it dry. Then cut Cut out the eyes,
ada and shake it onto a out a body and two stripes and legs. Glue
piece of paper. wings. everything in place.

Daisies
Cut out some yellow circles to
make the centers and glue some
white petals around them.
The High Cycle 2, by Bridget Riley
Mosaics

Cut out brick-shaped

figures
of different
colors and
line them up vertically.

Figurescombih
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Cut out circles and
rectangles
and distribute them
 Painter Bridget Riley created this bold, brightly
colored painting by repeatedly using the same geometric shapes.
Get a similar effect with paper cutouts.
Cut out
lots of triangles from
colored paper or old magazines.
Try distributing
them in different ways.
 Paper trees
Tear some squares of paper to make the
treetops. Then cut some strips in the
shape of trunks and branches and glue
them to the cups.

Uh old cantillo
Tear off a large rectangle to
make the tower and smaller ones
for the turrets. Add a window.

Uhs hortehsis
Tear off four small squares and
arrange them as shown in this
example to form a small flower.

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Glue lots of little flowers together to
make hydrangeas like these.
 Here you will find more ideas to create scenes
with torn or cut-out paper figures.

Uh snowflake
Fold a square of paper in
half diagonally three
times.* Cut out shapes
around the edges and
unfold.

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Combine different geometric shapes, such as Drops of cava
squares, rectangles and triangles, to form a
row of houses. Fold a small piece of paper in
half and cut it in a curve to
make a raindrop shape.
Then make some cuts • /

for the nose and mout

the h.
Unfold it and
draw the eyes.

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Vh Butterfly -
Fold a piece of paper in half
and cut out a figure 8.

Unfold it and glue a strip of paper on

top to make the body.

Vh
Tear upcaterpillar
many scent circles and
line them up to form a caterpillar.

Glue the circles to the

paper and draw the
legs and antennae.

Tear off three

circles to make
the ice cream
balls.
VHS muffins
Cut out a
triangle for the Cut out several molds and tear out some
cone. triangular shapes to make the muffins.
Make some balls of tissue paper and glue
them on top.
 I grew up with figures

The Moh and her Child, by Pablo Picasso

The artist used found objects, such as a toy car and a

ball, to create this bronze sculpture of a monkey and her
baby.
 Assembly of
objects
You can create figures with all
kinds of objects. Wash and
preserve lids, jars, boxes,
buttons and anything else you
can think of.

Uh roboC
Make a figure by gluing several objects
together

Glue colored lids and jars on top to make

the robot's face.
You can give it a sad or happy
expression.

Cut some feathers

out of wrapping
paper and glue them
on top.

Vh bird blahcíh
Flay artists who create mobile
sculptures. You can make one
too. Fold a paper plate in half,
paint it the color you like best
and add an eye and a beak.
Push it with your finger and
watch it swing.
Some artists work with fabrics.
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje
van Bruggen created this viola
from cloth.

Viol blanoa, by Claes Oldenburg and

Coosje van Bruggen

Create your own fabric

sculpture by following these
steps.
Uh fake pompom

Fill a cotton sock, tie the Tie another rubber band Cut a strip of cardboard,
end with a rubber band to the tip of the sock to wrap it around the sock
and cut off the excess. form a little ball that will and tape it in place.
be the icing on the cake.
 Artist Niki de Saint-
Phalle created this
large, multi-coloured
sculpture.

Make your own

voluminous sculptures
with salt dough.

by Nik¡ de Saint-Phalle

Ms figures
To make a salt dough figure, follow the
recipe on page 48.

Take a piece of dough and shape it on

the table or between your hands.

Make several holes with your fingers

and let it harden.

Finally, paint the figure.

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other

This work, which

represents an
artist's palette, is
composed of many
objects, among
which we find a

comb, a watch
strap and several
buttons.

Plet, by Tony Cragg

Plugs

Currency Nut

Why don't you create a Sponge

frog like this one with

things you find around
the house? First
distribute the objects
on the paper and - then
glue them.
Recipe by prepaw ms de sl
You need: You can add:
2 cups of flour A tablespoon of vegetable oil to make it
I glass of table salt easier to knead
I glass of water

Put the flour and salt in a bowl and add the water little by little, stirring until a soft dough forms. If it sticks too much, add
more flour. If it is too dry, add water.
Place the dough on a smooth surface and knead it for ten minutes until
acquire a homogeneous consistency
Let it sit for twenty minutes before using it.
1 The dough keeps well for a week if you store it
in the refrigerator or wrapped in cling film

Drying:
Let the figures air dry and they will be ready in 30 days. You can also bake them in
the oven at about 70 °C for 3 or 4 hours.

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Project illustrations: Josephine Thompson, Antonia Miller and Katie Lovell 1 ¡ , fA\
Project Steps: Samantha Meredith % - E \ e2
Photography: Howard Allman - ( tee .3,.-
Photo manipulation: Nicle Wal — —•'• ’
Search for works: Ruth King and Sam Noonan
Written by: Jane Chisholm and Jenny Tyler
Art direction: Mary Cartwright

pH Personcje at night guided by the phosphorescent traces of carneols, by Joan Miró © Heirs of Miró/
ADACP, Paris, > DACS, London, 2010/Museum of Art of Philadelphia/CORBIS p6 Study of an Elephant, by Rembrandt
van Rijp © Adminisirodoree def British Museum ps Vr-dj^ devot sky 9 DACS 2010, photography © White
Ir ages/Sc ala, Florence, pious Four Indians Dancing on Stage, by Edgar Degas © The Callery Collection/Corbis. pl2 Desert Sweet Potato Fox (Véter Jupurrula Roes 6 2000 Victor Jupurrula Ross/DACS

2010/Courtesy of the Warlekurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation/British Museum, With thanks to Beatriz Waters pío Blackish blue fox, d,- 1 rar z More, Museum Vet der Heydt, Wuppertal

(Germany)/7he Bridgeman Art i ibrury. pl8 Flowers on a red background, by Mat-: Chagall © ADAOP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2010, image © Scala, Florence. p20 Rain, by Dovid Hockney, 1973, from

the Weather series, lithograph and silkscreen, edition 98, 99 x ~n,ro cm 6 David Hockney/Gemini GE L, image p ■ Gallery of the British Council Collection p22 Sunset by Rao I Dufy, artwork © ADAGP

Paris, and DACS, London, 2010 Museums and Pinacote cass, Leeds, UK, image 0 The Bridgeman Art Library p2H Tropical Forest with Monkeys by Henri Roussecu © Barnes Foundation/superst ck

p28 Composition VIII, by Wasaily Kandinsky and ADAOP, Paris, and DACS, London. 2010, image © Summit Labs/SuperStock p30 Printed fabric with Rabbit drawing by William Morris, digital image ©

The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Ocala, Florence, p32 The Parrot and the Mermaid by Henri Matisse © Heirs of H Matisee/DACS 2010, imager. © Stedelik Museum, Amsterdam p34 Nariz de
zonchoria, by Jean Dubufet © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, Londrea 201 C /Scala, Florence, p36 El aito cielo 2, by Bridget Rley, 1992 E 2010 R-idoet Riley, all rights reserved. p38 Fragments of ddr'c ©

Werner Forman Archive/Scala, Florence p42 The Monkey and Her Baby, by Pablo Picasso © Heirs of Picasso/DACS. London. 2010/Musée Picasso de Paris (rancia)/Oiroudon/The Bridgeman Art

Library p44 Viola blonda, d' Claes Oldenbu rg and Coosje van Bruagen, photogro'd by Todd Eberle, courtesy of the Viola soft foundation by O'denburg van Bruggen © 2 002 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje
van Bruggen. Charlotte, by Niki de Soint-Phalle, artwork © ADAOP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2010, image © okg images/Dieter T. Hoppe p46 Palette, by Tony Cragg, 1986, plastic materials, approx 210
x 240 w. work © DACS, 20 0, phologography by Tony Cragg
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