Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.

Guide to decorating T-shirts with seventy-five designs using painting, stamping, batiking, marbling, and other techniques.

Sophie's is hurt when the other children laugh at her painting of her favorite tree--but when she explains her painting everybody understands what she was trying to do.

In rhyming stanzas, the painter's images come to life, seize the paintbrush and mix colors, creating figures of their own.

In art class, neatness, conformity, and imitation are encouraged, but when Willow brings imagination and creativity to her projects, even straight-laced Miss Hawthorn is influenced.

Outlines the fundamentals of drawing dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from fossils, models, and toys.

"Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--

As some warthogs spend a rainy day painting their kitchen, they make a mess and learn about mixing colors.