Color Your Own American Folk Art Paintings

Add your own colorful touches to 30 meticulously rendered versions of well-known American folk art paintings. These works include Edward Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch, Eunice Pinney's The Courtship, and other beloved portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Colorists of all ages, including would-be artists and Americana enthusiasts, will revel in an engaging combination of art history and activity.

Meticulous adaptations of 30 well-known American treasures include Edward Hicks'The Peaceable Kingdom, Eunice Pinney's The Courtship, and other beloved portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Illustrations are printed on one side of perforated pages.

Fans of Charles Wysocki, Mary Engelbreit, Grandma Moses, and folk art in general will fall in love with this guide to painting, organized by seasons. Featuring projects that instruct artists of all skill levels how to draw and paint subjects that include quaint homes, pretty patterns, colorful gardens, picturesque farms, beautiful birds, and textured florals, this book features American-themed folk art infused with a modern twist. Beginning with an overview of what folk art is, followed by introductory topics like color, tools and materials, and drawing and painting techniques, Folk Art Fusion: Americana also includes sixteen simple step-by-step projects done in approachable and popular mediums. Rounding out the book is a gallery of folk-art pieces sure to inspire lovers of all things Americana. Simultaneously fresh and nostalgic, Folk Art Fusion: Americana draws on America’s rich artistic tradition and heritage and provides a fun, accessible take on creating beloved scenes from the heartland.

Drawing on the natural folk art tendencies of children, who love to collect buttons, bottle caps, shells, and Popsicle sticks to create beautiful, imperfect art, this activity guide teaches kids about the history of this organic art and offers inspiration for them to create their own masterpieces. The full breadth of American folk art is surveyed, including painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and textiles from the 17th century through today. Making bubblegum wrapper chains, rag dolls, bottle cap sculptures, decoupage boxes, and folk paintings are just a few of the activities designed to bring out the artist in every child. Along the way kids learn about the lives of Americans throughout history and their casual relationships to everyday art as they cut stencils, sew needlepoint samplers, draw calligraphy birds, and design quilts. Important folk artists such as the last surviving Shakers, the legendary Grandma Moses, and the Reverend Howard Finster are also explored in sidebars throughout the book.

This beautiful book shows how easy it is to depict folk art's quaint, picturesque scenery on everything from boxes to picnic baskets.

Provides an introduction to American crafts from colonial times to the present by showing examples of items used in play, the kitchen, and school from the collection of the Museum of Folk Art.

Line drawings of 30 American masterpieces, carefully rendered by Marty Noble, invite colorists to add their own hues to these famous paintings. Covering a variety of styles and themes, they range from the quiet charm of Mary Cassatt's Mother and Child to Edward Hopper's starkly realistic Hotel Room. Other artists include Albert Bierstadt, Emigrants Crossing the Plains; Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917; Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom; Winslow Homer, Snap the Whip; Grandma Moses, Early Springtime on the Farm; Maurice Prendergast, Central Park; Frederic Remington, A Dash for the Timber; Grant Wood, American Gothic; Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, and 19 other classic works of art. A variety of media—including watercolors—can be used to color the accurately rendered illustrations. All paintings are shown in original colors on the inside covers; identifying captions accompany the illustrations.

"This is the most comprehensive book ever published about the charming and enduringly interesting art of the self-taught American painter who worked in the small towns and countryside. Lavishly illustrated, with almost half of the full-page reproductions in color, it includes paintings from every major private and public collection of folk art in America, some of them well known, but with numerous oils and watercolors here illustrated for the first time." --publisher description.

A guide to decorative folk-art painting. Information about brush techniques, materials, preparation of surfaces and pattern transfers is provided. Themes include Pennsylvania Dutch, Berger style, hearts and flowers.

Ready-to-color line drawings of 30 American masterpieces. Artists include Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Albert Bierstadt, Childe Hassam, Edward Hicks, Winslow Homer, and others. The illustrations are printed on only one side of perforated pages.