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Picture Books
Resources
Extraordinary or unique resources (human or material) needed to successfully complete this experience:
Number Five graphic

Waterways Picture Book Artist

Computer with word processing (scanner and photo imaging and page layout software are helpful)

Printer

Photocopier

Paper cutter

8.5x11 Paper

8.5x11 Card or cover stock

Long arm stapler

Student drawing materials: pencil, sketch paper, erasers, ink, pens, brushes, scratchboards, scrapers, watercolors and brushes, some larger paper for making folded accordion books

Scissors

Glue sticks

Construction paper

Audio or video recorder and refreshments for book party

Heuristic Elements of Poetry

Examples to show:

Streams, Waterways' student chapbooks (pocket-sized books of student writing) and picture books

Other examples of student writing - e.g. "New Youth Connections"

Books by artist/authors: Art Spiegelman, William Blake, Eric Drooker, Molly Barker, Franz Masereel, John Muafangejo, Kenneth Patchen, Edward Gorey, and collaborators such as Ntozake Shange and Romare Bearden, Philip Guston and various poets, Robert Creeley and various artists.

Non-art teachers may need some guides to basic art concept and practices. The following references might be useful:

The Natural Way to Draw, by Kimon Nicolaides

Drawing for Older Children and Teens, by Mona Brookes

Draw Squad, by Mark Kistler

Drawing on the Artist Within, by Betty Edwards

Any introductory drawing book

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