Meet the Artist: J. M. W. Turner is packed with inspiring activities for budding young artists. Create colorful Turneresque landscapes and seascapes, experiment with watercolors, and paint portraits of your friends and family. Starting with a brief introduction to the life of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), an English painter known for his evocative land- and seascapes, the book offers a series of drawing-based activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of actual artworks and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.

JMW Turner is one of the greatest artists Britain has ever produced. His watercolours, with their extraordinary effects of shifting light and dramatic skyscapes, are especially highly regarded. For the first time, the secrets of Turner's technique are revealed, allowing present-day watercolourists to learn from his achievements.This book combines unrivalled knowledge of Turner's working methods from Tate curators and conservators with practical advice from some of the world's most respected watercolour experts. Twenty-two thematic exercises are illustrated with Turner's works. Expert contemporary watercolourists explain, step-by-step, how to paint a similar composition, learning from Turner's techniques. Packed with invaluable information, from the materials Turner used to achieve the masterpieces we know and love today, to the modern materials the twenty-first-century watercolour artist will need.Backed by the authority of Tate, the world centre for Turner scholarship, with a glossary of technical terms, this is an invaluable resource both for lovers of Turner's art and of watercolour painting.

Beautifully designed activity book introducing young artists to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe Come and meet Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the twentieth century's most significant American artists. She transformed the way we look at things through her largescale paintings of flowers, cityscapes, desert scenes, bone compositions, and abstract arrangements. Explore O'Keeffe's unique perspective as you draw, paint, and play your way through activities based on her artwork, and discover how to use art to express your own view of the world. Part of Tate's newly revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books, Meet Georgia O'Keeffe is bursting with inspiring activities based on some of the artist's key pieces, which are reproduced in full color.

Meet the Artist: Andy Warhol is packed with make-and-dos and inspiring activities for budding young artists Experiment with printing and blotted line drawings, design your own disco outfit, be famous for 15 minutes, make your very own time capsule, and even become the director of your own movie! Bursting with inspiring activities, the revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books introduces children to internationally renowned artists in a fun and engaging way. Every book includes a brief introduction to the artist's life followed by a series of activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's body of work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, every book in the Meet the Artist series encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences through art-making.

Meet the Artist ... become an artist. Welcome to the wonderful world of David Hockney! This book is jam-packed with inspiring activities and ideas for budding young artists. Create bright and colourful landscapes, phtocollages and draw portraits of your friends and family.

"The exhibition 'J.M.W. Turner' [has been] organised by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with Tate Britain, London"--T.p. verso.

Meet the Artist: Peter Blake is packed with inspiring activities for budding artists. Children can create their own bold pop art imagery using collage and different paintbrush techniques inspired by Peter Blake--an English pop artist best known for co-creating the album-cover design for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The book includes a brief introduction to the artist's life, followed by a series of activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in Blake's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artwork and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator--the artist's daughter, Rose Blake--this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.