Books with title Shape Song

This wonderful book gives children a fresh and informal introduction to both 2-D and 3-D shapes, as well as to concepts such as tessellation, symmetry, and pattern. Superb photographs celebrate the wealth of creativity that is possible by combining squares, triangles, and circles, or cubes, cylinders, and cones. Hands-on projects help give children a firm understanding of shape and encourage them to use their own creativity and imagination.

What is Cubism? How is shape used in sculpture? How did prehistoric artists use shapes in their drawings? You'll find the answers to these questions and more as you read 'How Artists Use: Shape.' Learn how artists from the beginning of time to the present day have used shape in their work. The books in the 'How Artists Use; series explore the characteristics of color, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, and perspective. Take a close-up look at these characteristics in works of art by well-known artists. Activities in each book help you use these characteristics in your own work.