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THESE BOOKS WERE PLANNED IN A SERIES OF CONFERENCES AND CONSULTATIONS WITH LEADING ART TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS, AMONG WHOM
BONNIE
E.
MlSS WlLHELMINA SEEGMILLER, DIRECTOR OF ART, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Miss
HARRIETTS
L.
I.
RICE,
PROVIDENCE, R.
MR. WALTER SCOTT PERRY, DIRECTOR OF THE ART DEPARTMENT, PRATT INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, N. Y.
MRS. M. E. RILEY, DIRECTOR OF ART, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ST. Louis, Mo.
DR.
MR. JOHN
S.
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COPYRIGHT,
1904,
BY
Acknowledgment.
We
from Helen Hunt Jackson's "September" (page 16); to Houghton, Mifflin and Company, for the quotation from Celia Thaxter's "Spring" (page 14), and that from Frank Dempster Sherman's "Fairy Jewels" (page 5) and
;
pany, for permission to use (page 12), and for the -lines
are indebted to the publishers, Little, Brown and ComEmily Dickinson's poem, Day"
"A
to Charles
Henry van
Dyke's "The Angler's Wish" (page 25), from "The Builders and Other Poems," and for the quotations from Robert Louis " Stevenson's "Bed in Summer" (page 13), and " Marching Song
Child's Garden of Verse." (page 30), from For the Theory of Color Relations used in these books, special acknowledgment is due to Dr. Denman W. Ross, of
"A
lessons in Design are preparatory to the the fuller exposition in upper books of Dr. Ross's principles
of arrangement
Harvard University.
The
Balance,
decreed that every child in tJie schools of France should be taugJit to draw, he gave suck an impetus to the
artistic life of'the
"
When Napoleon
French
approached them"
"Great,
wide,
beautiful,
wonderful
World,
With
the wonderful
the
curled,
And
wonderful
upon your
breast,
Look
Sky
see
you
And
so
I will
paint you.
Come,
pretty clouds!
I
Come
How
You You
I
and play in the blue, blue sky! soft and white you are
!
my
like.
brush
Where
the bright blue sky? soft gray veil now hides it.
is
now
the bright green field soft gray cloak now hides it.
Light gray
veil
O
I
down
the sky,
in
bed
I lie."
We play you are a silver boat. We play we sail in the silver boat. We always sail home in the path
of light.
How
Are
There are
the trees at
Would
we were
there
Why
AR1
This
is
the
way
Went
Jill
And up To
the
hill
Now
show
When
way that Jack and Went down and down And down the hill Jill came tumbling after.
the
Jill
10
Every night
the sun
must leave
us.
He
smiles
back
a bright
goodbye.
We
call
the sun's
bright smiles.
We cannot
tell in
words
it is.
how
beautiful
paints.
World,
you are
always
beautifully
drest
!
You wear
You wear
gray,
soft as pearl.
blue,
yellow,
and green.
Now
You wear
12
A
I'll tell
Day.
ribbon at a time:
The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been
the sun!"
But how he set, I know not. There seemed a purple stile, Which little yellow boys and girls
Were
Till
climbing
in
all
the while,
the other side,
A dominie
And
To be
13
"
In winter
get
up
at night
And
I
15
In yellow
and brown
I
have come
to
town!
stand,
Like a soldier
I
Take
a picture a clear,
true.
Show
green leaves.
Show strong
straight
the big,
stem,
and
tall.
so
16
hidden
spun."
silk
has
How
By
do we know
milkweed
?
this is
the shape
of the
fruit,
we know
the plant.
17
Look
at
our
beautiful grasses!
They
grow
near
our
home.
How
are!
many kinds
there
Do Do Do
all
all
leaves
grow
of the grass
fruit.
on the stems?
The head
is its
flower and
Do
all
Paint
shapes
with ink.
18
Some
I
I
call this
know.
rose-berries.
Hurrah
This
is
for the
pumpkins!
you a
secret:
To
Round
and yellow!
With
stout,
green
stem!
20
"
never saw such a terrible sight," Said little Nell in great affright " I am afraid to run away,
I
And
yet
am
afraid to stay/
22
know
it!
know
it!
The
bright crocuses in
tell
my
garden
me
so.
Look
at their
cups of purple
and gold,
As
full
24
The shape
of this plant
tells
us
We
can show
Show how
looks
the plant
when two
little
heads peep
out
of the ground.
25
guess
the pussy-willows
out
on every bough
the brook."
The
Can we
coat
the
in
buds
wore
Is the
winter?
bough
dark?
light or
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IITTLE HEDRIDINGHOODS
MOTHER
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Alice shall be
Give her a bright red sled. Run, Alice! Play the floor is snow! We play we see sky and trees.
Close your
Paint
eyes.
it.
See the
picture.
o
.
e
,1 /
f
x
^N.
\
ft
r~
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it
"
!
March!
all
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Man, give me
AJtT
ART EDUCATION
BOOK ONE
33
Come, Mary We will name you Susan. Play Susan goes to the store. How it rains Take an umbrella, Susan.
!
!
Play Prince
He
Paint with
ink.
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35
her
cat.
What
Now,
a beautiful cat
Jane,
!
sit
up!
Turn your
tail
!
back,
We
Please stand on
your
feet.
Mary
shall
have
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to
s
M@llhe<&ll)8tt
,
ART EDUCATION
BOOK ONE
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ad Ckristma^s eve wkerv aJI we re < ia bed, aowa me Kjjjki ekirrxrvey ke ad slretckia^ tke -^ stocking out a.i ii tke"l. top, e cla.ph>ed ia &~ took for you
,
*r
I
I
40
n
Paint things
you
like
would
for
your
own; things
for
work;
for
things
play.
Use
41
Cut
to
pictures
and
if
Claus.
42
We
Here they
five.
are,- -one,
two,
three,
four,
tell
what you
see.
43
'
This
is
Tub
Lake.
in the boat.
It is quite
Our dolls, They will sail across the We made our own boat.
Fold paper
to
lake.
make
a boat.
44
fun just to look at things. The world seems full of toysDolls and cradles and houses for
It is
girls;
Drums and
The
Are
loud noises
the animals,
you hear
46
tent.
Then drop
47
shapes
with water.
Drop
Show the dark rims of the lanterns. You can make the dark color
What
48
50
See how
to get
a circle
from
a cylinder.
See how
to
make
parasols
with our
paper
circles.
52
You You
your book. Here is the paper for the cover. Lay it on the desk with the straight edge toward you. Fold the bottom edge to meet the top edge.
for
Crease the
fold.
Hold
it
up
like a book.
Fold your lesson papers to fit the cover. Sew them in. You have made a book.
53
Make
Lay
it
a book cover.
on your desk with the bottom edge toward you. Turn it half around. Fold and crease
again in just the same way.
Open your
paper.
What
have you?
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YO
Y6
RV
BV
COLOR CHART
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56
We hang a glass
And
the
sun's
prism
bright
rainbow
fairies
come.
In yellow, orange, and red they dance, In violet, in blue, and in green;
And
always clasping hands they dance, Yellow, orange, red, violet, blue, green.
Point them out and
name them
Find ribbons, bits of wool and cloth to match the bright rainbow colors.
a circle
ART EDUCATION
BOOK ONE
57
Have you
seen windows
of beautiful colors?
They are called stained glass windows. The sun makes the colors
glow with
light.
You may
in the
book.
in clear colors.
Then drop
for you.
Watch orange come. Drop in blue and yellow. Watch for green. Drop in red and blue. Then comes violet
.
Drop
in
in red,
Find the
58
You
Lay
Fold a book cover. Paint across the row of shapes you like best.
it
59
Let us make a box for father's desk. Fold sixteen small squares,
like the picture.
Cut on
Fold
this,
in.
Paste.
Make
Use one
Father
it.
be pleased with
this
box!
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62
63
It is
fun to
to
make
the soap-suds
!
Fun
Fun Fun
Fun
to see
them
and burst!
to see the
rainbow
fairies
come
and go
to play the
bubbles are
fairy
balloons!
64
The
Indians
dishes
make
out of
common
this
is
We
clay.
play
the bowl
soft,
up the round bowl. When you need more clay, add a small lump at a time.
pull
Work
it
in
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Look
at
our windows
of plants! one of us
full
Each
has a growing
plant.
We
own
plants
own
We
hope
surprise you.
!
Each child made his own flower-pot We made the flower-pots of clay.
G6
To make
first
Lay Use
the tablet to place dots an inch apart, one inch from the upper and lower edge.
six light lines as in the first picture.
Draw
Cut on
the lines.
Weave
in six strips
one inch wide and eight inches long. You can find many uses for your mat
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to
Make
a loop
it
and sew
in.
Hang by
the loop
We
We
made them
for our
filled
Christmas
looked
in
her room.
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"Hepatica, anemone, And bloodroot snowy white, With their pretty wild-wood sisters,
Are opening
to the light."
The May-baskets have been made many days, waiting for the opening
of the buds.
Now we
go
flowers.
We
put them in our May-baskets. They take to our friends the sweetest
of
May-day
greetings.
69
We
can
weave a mat
for the cover
drawings.
Let us weave
it
Weave
With
over one, under two; over under two then over one again.
;
one,
under one. Fit two pieces of white cardboard to the mat. Paste the mat on one. Twist a cord of wool. Tie the pieces
to
make
will
This
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Now we
of
all
come
to the last
and best
this year.
the things
we make
We
looms, and
weave
The loom
Use inch
is
of pasteboard,
Thread
a big needle
Sew
in the picture.
Weave
When
tear
it is
woven
full
and smooth,
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are those that wear |t matters little if dark or fair Whole-souled honesty printed there. Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is earnest, and brave, and true Moment bu, moment, the long day through.
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