An imaginative compendium of drawing and painting ideas to delight all readers and dispel boredom forever. Discover how to doodle a sloth, turn pencil shavings into pictures and draw in ways you never imagined. Then try printing, spattering paints and painting with dots. There are ideas for portraits, patterns, optical illusions and more, so you’ll soon have enough artworks for your own exhibition — and this book will show you how to stage one too. Suitable for all artistic abilities, with carefully-written steps and cleverly-designed illustrations that are easy to follow. With tricks and tips to impress, drawing games to entertain and patterns and doodles to calm busy minds.
James Maclaine has written books about meerkats, general knowledge and manners, come up with countless drawing, doodling and colouring ideas, and devised puzzles and things to do for a range of activity books. His Junior Illustrated Thesaurus is the book that he wishes he'd had as a child.