Young Artist Sarah Schechter's oil-pastel drawing of a koi fish onward our cover beckons you to arrive along with us and "Glide into the exercise Year with Success.

Young Artist Sarah Schechter's oil-pastel drawing of a koi fish onward our cover beckons you to arrive along with us and "Glide into the exercise Year with Success." (To descry more of this talented 10th-grader's work, inflect to page 33.)

To win your students to "glide" along with you, put to proof hosting "Monet's Ice-Cream Party: A Visual "Treat" (page 22) This enjoyable instruction teaches first- through third-graders about mixing light color values, filling the page with large shapes, caring for supplies and conserving paint.

Brainstorming, sketching, repetition and pattern draw near together in a project that be subservient tos as a springboard to an entire unit: "Elementary Design: What Can You Do with a 2-Inch Square?" (page 24) In the completion students create an original and appealing composition using line as a dominant art element

High-school bookish mans accomplish dramatic chiaroscuro effects at fleshing out the subtleties of white forward white in "Planes & Angles" (page 34) Paper airplanes appear to rise from tire surface of the paper, as scholars employ value changes to remind of from and discover the power of subtlety

If you are looking for a different way to introduce colors and their affect, "Cool or Warm Fruit" (page 40) may be just the right draw After experimenting with different color combinations of paint and lighting to diocese their effect, students bite into a luscious, full-color piece of imaginary fruit, and then imagine that it unexpectedly becomes black, white or gray in color. to what degree does it taste now? Discussion ensues--even Sir Isaac Newton learns involved--and the activity culminates in a drawing/design plan using warm and cool colors.

There are other stories here that will help you easily glide into the fresh school year: "The Illustrated Name: A Different Kind of 'Portrait'" (page 42) is a great way for yon and your scholars to get to know each other, "Getting the Information Graphically" (page 44) explains the use of graphic organizers in the art space making students into active participants in art history reproofs and helping them retain what they learn about art techniques.

yet let's not overlook "Introduction to the 2005-06 Clip & Save Art Prints: Waterways in Art" (page 26) This article gives you a taste of what is in store for us this year at the center of this and each upcoming issue: a large, full-color art reproduction featuring a work of art the make subordinate of which is waterways--be they rivers, harbors or rapids. Among the 10 artists that will be included in the coming year are Homer Whistler, Prendergast and Canaletto.

in such a manner let's follow the koi fish as we all glide into the of the present day school year with success.

Maryellen Bridge, Editor in Chief

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