Making Pictures Without Paint

the long version

Mosaics, rubbings, string designs. These are only some of the kinds of pictures that you can make without paint. the methods are fun, and the possibilities for individual expression are endless. Here is an inventive introduction to these arts that presents nine projects, each carefully adapted to suit beginning skills. Some of the activities, such as torn-paper pictures and found-object mosaics, are quite simple. Others, for example a wall hanging of appliqué and stitchery, are more complicated. In all, however, the young artist is encouraged to develop his own design. Whe he has finished he wil have acquired the confidence to work on his own and an appreciation of the beauty in his everyday environment.