Books with author Barbara Soloff Levy

Just like magic, a few easy-to-follow steps will have artists of every age creating thirty amazing inhabitants from a mythical world! Simple illustrations incorporating circles, ovals, squares, and other basic shapes show how to depict graceful mermaids, appealing dragons, gentle giants, and other fanciful creatures. A special format features easy instructions on the left side and practice-until-perfect blank pages on the right. And a pencil, eraser, and sharpener are included as your ideal aids to drawing success!

Chanukah is a Jewish holiday celebrating the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians in 165 B.C. Known as the Festival of Lights, it is a time to remember the early Jews' struggle for religious freedom. It is also a time of gift giving and game playing.Each of the 12 easy-to-read pages in this book describes a Chanukah-related object or term: Eternal Light, menorah, Maccabee shield with the Star of David, dreidel, and more. Also included are 12 full-color sticker illustrations, each of which can be applied to a blank space on the appropriate page.

Aspiring artists will find it a snap to create humorous portraits with this easy-to-follow guide. Step-by-step diagrams show how to draw little girls with unusual ponytails, a bearded leprechaun, a balding man, a lady with a funny hat, and other odd faces by combining ovals and circles and adding curvy lines and squiggles. 116 black-and-white illustrations.

Simple directions make it easy to draw your favorite Mother Goose characters. Just combine a few circles, ovals, rectangles, and other basic shapes. Before you know it, you'll have drawn amazing likenesses of the Three Blind Mice, the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Little Bo Peep, the Queen of Hearts, and 21 other nursery rhyme favorites. For even more fun, you can color those likable characters you've created!

This easy-to-follow guide makes it a snap for aspiring artists of all ages to draw everyone's favorite barnyard buddies. If you've never been able to create a likeness of an animal, you'll welcome the book's effective step-by-step diagrams.Using circles, ovals, and other geometric shapes, the diagrams build appealing images of a turkey, duck, horse, cow, and 26 other farm animals. Not only will you learn to make realistic drawings, you'll be on the way to mastering the basics of shape development and the fundamentals of form and dimension as well!

Easy and fun to use, this guide shows aspiring artists of all ages how to draw creatures of the forest. Even if you’ve never been able to create a likeness of an animal, you’ll find it simple to follow these step-by-step diagrams.Using circles, ovals, and other shapes, the diagrams demonstrate how to create images of common animals such as a skunk, fox, raccoon, and moose. They also depict some of the woodlands’ more exotic denizens — a forest wolf spider, a star-nosed mole, a sharp-shinned hawk, and a silver-haired bat. Not only will you learn to form realistic drawings, you’ll be on the way to mastering the basics of shape development and understanding the fundamentals of form and dimension.

Easy-to-follow guide shows would-be artists of all ages how to create accurate images of a grasshopper, monarch butterfly, tarantula, caterpillar, cicada, praying mantis, walking sticker, scorpion, carpenter ant, Japanese beetle, inchworm, centipede, termite, and 17 other insects. Step-by-step diagrams not only help create figures that are fun to draw but also teach fundamentals.