Art For All Seasons

by Susan Schwake

Art for All Seasons is a well-thought-out handbook of nature-inspired art adventures that can be explored over and over with different results each time.

Perfect for parents, teachers, grandparents or anyone working with children making art! The nature-based lessons are beautifully illustrated with more than 400 full-color photographs of the process and additional inspirational images of contemporary artists’ work.

Included is information on:

• How to set up a simple home studio
• A comprehensive list of materials
• How to display and save kid’s art work and ideas surrounding making art with others
• A recipe chapter shows how to make some of your own materials and how to use standard art materials

Each lesson is a great springboard of ideas for anyone wanting to be inspired by the natural world to make art. Art for All Seasons will be your perennial go-to book when making art with children.

Following on the heels of her wildly successful series, Art Lab for Kids, Susan Schwake and her husband, Rainer Schwake, bring us the new Kids Art Series with this first title—Art for All Seasons. Susan Schwake is an artist, art educator, author and curator. Her passion for teaching over the past 20 years has found her working in many diverse settings, and her own art school, which operates in conjunction with their gallery and design firm in New Hampshire: artstreamstudios.com.

Ages 5 to 8
Flexibound | 144 pages | Two Little Birds | 2014

Susan Schwake is an artist, art educator, author and curator. Her passion for teaching art for over 20 years has found her working in diverse settings such as private and public schools, community organizations, programs for medically fragile children, special needs agencies, summer camps, intergenerational facilities, libraries, and her own little art school to thousands of people.