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START EXPLORING(tm) Masterpieces - A Fact-Filled Coloring Book

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This book is a great resource for any art teacher. I am an elementary (k-6) art teacher and I use these coloring book pages for my students to help re-enforce the art history lessons that I use in the classroom. It is great for them to see and color a copy of a painting that they have learned about at the end of the lesson, and they have a masterpiece to take home with them. I have used them with all my students, and all age ranges. Some of them are a little difficult for the kindergarteners because the pictures are very detailed...but it is a great way to help develop those fine motor skills for the little ones. My students love to color their own masterpieces after we have discussed the actual painting in the classroom. I use this at least once a week, and the interesting facts that accompany every painting are well written and concise.

I have just received my coloring book of masterpieces and I was very happy at the kinds of paintings that were put into the book. They are some of the ones i have studied in humanities and art history. They are really neat to copy onto a canvas and paint them. I like the information they include on the artists and what time period they lived in. I hope they come out with a second book of just more masterpieces to color.

This neat book is a great way to help your child or student learn about art and the great masterpieces (or yourself, if you prefer to use a fun method to teach yourself). Users get to color masterpieces in their own way, and the opposite page gives a brief, easy-to-read-and-understand description of the work of art and artist.
Coloring books tend to be useful tools in teaching children, as they are interactive and fun, and they make what could be a complex subject accessible to children -- which is pretty cool!
There are more books in this series, and they look great, too.

If you are an art teacher, this book is worth the buy. I have used it over and over again! I found it by way of another art teacher. It can be used in primary and secondary art classes. I reccomend this book all the way.

It's a starter book for the young. I would have liked to have the orginal picture with the color pages, plus the detail is lacking. If you are looking at introducing a kid to the arts this is the book that you need.

I love this coloring book because it features many famous drawings in black and white that we can color ourselves. Each piece has a brief history of the artist and artwork. A nice relaxing and educational way to color and learn! Another fun way to color the artwork is to look up the original painting and stride to color the drawings the same way! Kids of all ages can easily color each masterpiece and not even know they are learning something at the same time about our these Artists Giants!

START EXPLORING(tm) Masterpieces - A Fact-Filled Coloring Book

i am an avid fan of coloring to relax and relieve stress. i found this coloring book on amazon and had to have it! there are 60 pages to complete. I like that each picture comes with a short synopsis of the artist's creation. i am searching each picture on the internet as i go along and trying to replicate the colors, shading etc. i think all ages would love this book if you are into coloring.

some of the pictures are simple in their drawings - yet each one is detailed enough so it can be colored to look very much like the original or however desired

I bought this book because I teach high school art and sometimes it is more fun to interact with the art by adding color yourself. :) I also use this to show that art is about decision making because all the students can start with the same drawing and still create vary different images. The facts are short and relevant and the artwork covers a variety of movements/genres.

I teach art. When I have to be absent, I never know if the substitute will know anything about art or not. This book at least offers some art history and an oportunity for the student to practice their coloring skills.

I just got this book.. very nice and informative, the paintings history and other information is inside but not included the original paintings , so I have no Idea what's the colors of the painting, atleast a thumbnail will do. Other than that it's a wonderful addition to my collections of art books. :-)