Thursday, September 8, 2022

Using Stories to Make Art

I'm excited to teach Art History this year, and have especially enjoyed Wendy Libby's Using Art to Make Art (orginally published as Using Art to Create Art). I was so pleased when I found out she wrote another book, Using Stories to Make Art!


Using Stories to Make Art: Creative Activities Using Children's Literature


My original two collections of art lessons inspired by picture books were Teaching Art with Books Kids Love: Art Elements, Appreciation, and Design with Award-winning Books by Darcie Clark Frohardt and Storybook Art: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of 100 Great Picture Book Illustrators by MaryAnn Kohl and Jean Potter.


If you're also teaching about art using storybook artists, and you like to have a picture book to kick off your lesson plan, here are the titles (and artists) included in all three books:






    Mirette on the High Wire
    by Emily Arnold McCully
    "Horizontal Tissue Paper Lines"
    "Diagonal Tissue Paper Lines"
    "Crisscross Tissue Paper Lines"
    "Stained Glass"


    The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
    by Paul Goble
    "Curved and Angled Lines Abstract"
    "Quilt with Lines"
    "Line Abstract #1"
    "Line Abstract #2"


    A Color of His Own
    by Leo Lionni
    "Contours of Favorite Objects"
    "Contour Ripples"
    "Contour Tracing"
    "Watercolor Animal"


    Tar Beach
    by Faith Ringgold
    "City at Night"
    "City at Night Mural"
    "Quilt Border"
    "Shapes Quilt"


    Where the Wild Things Are
    by Maurice Sendak
    "Monster!"
    "Texture Rubbings"
    "Texture Rubbings on Shapes"
    "Oil Pastel Textures"


    Jumanji
    by Chris Van Allsburg
    "Value Scale and Drawing Three-Dimensional Shapes"
    "Three-Dimensional Shapes in Color"
    "Black, White, and Gray Abstract"
    "Black, White, and Gray Collage"


    The Village of Round and Square Houses
    by Ann Grifalconi
    "African Village"
    "Shadow Tracing"
    "Bird Shadows"


    Shadow
    by Blaise Cendrars
    "Animal Shadows"


    Grandfather's Journey
    by Allen Say
    "Monochromatic Abstract"
    "Monochromatic Shapes"
    "Monochromatic Collages"
    "Monochromatic Portrait"


    Seven Blind Mice
    by Ed Young
    "Play Dough Bug"
    "Primary and Secondary Colors Abstract"
    "Color Wheel"
    "Original Painting"


    The Paperboy
    by Dav Pilkey
    "Neighborhood at Night"
    "Night and Day"
    "Warm and Cool Paintings"
    "Warm or Cool Abstract"


    Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears
    by Verna Aardema
    "Jungle Scene"
    "Overlapping Shapes"
    "Overlapping Objects Collage"
    "Twisted Snakes"


    Owl Moon
    by Jane Yolen
    "Winter Tree"
    "Tree with Textured Space"
    "Negative and Positive Cutouts"
    "Keys"


    Cherries and Cherry Pits
    by Vera B. Williams
    "Clothing Collage"
    "Shape Repetition"
    "Geometric Pattern"
    "Wallpaper"


    There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
    by Simms Taback
    "Flies Everywhere!"
    "Butterfly with Flies"
    "Contrasting Words"
    "Contrasts Abstract"


    Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
    by Peter Sis
    "Radial Design"
    "Symmetrical Cut Paper Design"
    "Symmetrical Drawing"
    "Mirror Image"


    In the Small, Small Pond
    by Denise Fleming
    "Swimming Whirligigs"
    "Action Shot"
    "Spinning Objects"
    "Movement Illustration"


    Saint George and the Dragon
    by Margaret Hodges
    "Dominance Triptych"
    "Newsprint Collage"
    "Radiating Lines Design"
    "Apple Prints"


    Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
    by John Steptoe
    "Colored Symmetrical Drawing"
    "Animal Portrait"
    "Still Life"
    "Self-Portrait"


    Linnea in Monet's Garden
    by Christina Bjork
    "Impressionist Garden"
    "Complementary Flowers"
    "Seascape"
    "Pointillism Painting"


    Smoky Night
    by Eve Bunting
    "Expressionist Self-Portrait"
    "Portrait of a Friend"
    "Tree in a Storm"
    "Expressionist Abstract"


    Tuesday
    by David Wiesner
    "Next Tuesday"
    "Invasion"
    "Surrealist Landscape"
    "Surrealist Collage"


    A Chair for My Mother
    by Vera B. Williams
    "Naive Self-Expression"
    "My Home"
    "Naive Self-Portrait"
    "Street Scene Mural"


    Officer Buckle and Gloria
    by Peggy Rathmann
    "Cartoon"
    "Out-of-Proportion Cartoon"
    "Cartoon Symmetry"
    "Cartoon Nursery Rhyme"


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