Best Selling Books by Eric Gibbons

The arts, drawing, human body.

Are angels at work; or devils at play? Take a walk with Christian Voodoo for a tour of an unusual history of faith and its obscure hold on people''s lives. Find Christian practices, past and present, for: - Determining what is lucky or unlucky; - How to improve your fortune; - Recognizing omens and clues to future events; - Using your faith to cure nightmares, illnesses and fever; - Ensuring a happy marriage; - Dispelling demons, and removing weeds; - Identifying the dates for the end of it all Do you voodoo?

Paintings and artworks in other media featuring Christmas trees, created by art teachers in imitation of the styles and techniques of famous artists from the Renaissance to the present, and accompanied by rhyming text, introduce art history.

This book is organized by genre, so painting and drawing ideas are put first, sculpture is next, followed by clay, and photography. The books ends with 88 sketchbook ideas that can be turned into daily drawing projects, or used when a project finishes too quickly. Total, this book includes 225 great ideas under one cover. We know budgets are often tight, so all our lessons are open to interpretation. If you don''t have plaster, the sculpture can be made in paper mache. If you don''t have acrylics, often watercolor or tempera paints will be a good alternative. You can even re-imagine projects that we have listed as drawing or painting and do them as a sculpture, and vise versa. Many sculpture projects can be done in clay, this is why our clay-specific lessons may seem limited. Be open to creative possibilities and you will find several years of lesson ideas here. This book is a consolidation of lessons from our art education publications, plus lessons we have created for our own summer camp program. Some may be completed in a day, some will take longer. We will not include crafting directions that are easily obtained on the internet, but will include a link to pages we feel are helpful. Some lessons may be craft-based but will have a fine art "twist" so that projects are more personal and expressive.

From FirehousePublications.com comes the elementary version of our bestselling book, The Art Student''s Workbook. This elementary version was created by a 20+ year certified veteran teacher and curriculum writer for classes in drawing, painting and sculpture designed for grades three through eight. The lessons are broad and easily adjusted to accommodate different grade levels, special needs students, and material appropriate for many environments from the school classroom, or home based instruction, to a fine arts camp program. It includes nearly three years worth of lesson ideas in painting, drawing, sculpture, and clay, project samples, vocabulary, worksheets, sample tests, research paper samples, grading rubrics, sketch and note taking pages, and short creative five minute writing assignments, critiquing pages, and daily closure statements to meet district observational requirements. This book is also a helpful aid in fulfilling State and Federal accommodation requirements (504/ IEP) by providing special needs students additional documented and written material that may be taken home. Every lesson is designed to be personal and expressive fine art. There are NO "crafty" projects or "cookie-cutter" lessons where everyone has the same outcome. This book stresses a "divergent thinking processes" approach and creative problem solving, with an art therapy undertone. Most lesson suggestions may be done in different media to work within tight budgets. Anecdotal evidence from the author''s guidance department indicates that students who take this course with this workbook are 50% less likely to fail standardized testing. These are real numbers that can grab the attention of your administration and Board of Education if you have the same results. These lessons combine information from core curriculum and merge it with fine art. Art is the meeting place for all subjects. When we grid-we use geometry. When we make sculptures-we use engineering. When we mix colors-we reveal information about physics. When we create illustrations for stories-we learn about literature. When we review the styles of art from da Vinci to Warhol-we teach history. Students not only come to understand the concepts, but use them, and manipulate them for deeper understanding on multiple sensory levels of thinking. This workbook is divided by multicurricula units so that this concrete connection to academic "core courses" is more easily seen. ALL projects are designed to have successful divergent results, incorporate creative problem solving, and bring relevant connections to students'' lives. This book is built for student success on many levels from gifted to challenged. This in turn is helpful in fulfilling mandated accommodations so that no child is left behind. We recommend that you pair this book with the student edition of the same name. For those that teach in middle or high school, find our other title, "The Art Student''s Workbook."

Each page of this educational children''s book contains a beautiful aquatic-themed art piece created by one of 35 art teachers from all over the world who have all chosen a famous artist to emulate. A great tool for intercurricular teaching, this book combines art history, marine biology, and poetry that is informative and entertaining. Also included are icons placed under each picture to indicate whether the creature is thriving, threatened, endangered, critically endangered, or extinct. The art and poetry will educate children about the rich traditions of art history as well as inspire kids to learn more about the famous artists that are honored on every page.

Bi-annual art education lesson resources series building upon the pedagogy presented in the book "Art Ed Guru."

Bi-annual art education lesson resources series building upon the pedagogy presented in the book "Art Ed Guru."

Deluxe Full Color Edition:This book is a guide and a diary of our 5000 mile, four week road-trip from California to New Jersey with a focus on seeing the best of America, and eating at some of the most noted restaurants along the way. We have also included information for those that would like to extend their own road trip to include New England sights through Cape Cod, MA. The total cost of the trip was about $10,000 for two people, including all meals, gas, lodging, park fees, light shopping, snacking, and gambling in Las Vegas. This book contains a GPS list of points and an address guide that follows our route and includes area restaurants and what their specialty items are.* Napa, CA * Russian River, CA * Sonoma, CA * San Francisco, CA * Yosemite National Park, CA * Carmel, CA * Pacific Coast Highway * Hearst Castle, CA * Los Angeles, CA * San Diego, CA * Las Vegas, NV * Hoover Dam, NV * Grand Canyon, AZ * Page, AZ* Monument Valley, UT * Moab, UT * Arches National Park, UT * Denver, CO * Loveland , CO * Kansas City, MO * St Louis, MO * Mammoth Cave, KY * Charlottesville, VA * Luray Caverns, VA * Washington, DC * Philadelphia, PA * Bordentown, NJ* Manhattan, NY * Mystic Seaport, CT * Boston, MA * Provincetown, MAThis same title is available in a lower priced black and white economy edition as well.

This is a workbook for art students. It is a re-titled edition previously known as "The Art Student''s Workbook." This title includes significant revisions and is more comprehensive.

This is the teacher''s companion edition to the book, "Advanced Art Student''s Workbook" and includes 20 benchmark exams for higher level art students. The book also permits the buyer to make copies for their students. While the student edition is an 8 x 10 format, This teacher''s edition is 8.5 x 11 in. format for ease of duplication. This book offers a novel, choice based approach to art education for students who have advanced beyond introductory courses and have expressed an interest in digging deeper into fine art. This fills in the gap between introductory classes, and AP Studio Art. This book is intended for a high school audience but may be appropriate for advanced middle school levels with more intense explorations in fine art. Students are guided to explore thirteen major historical movements from the Renaissance (1400s) through contemporary Pop Art. They gain an understanding of each era''s mindset, methods, and themes, to create their own personal works of art inspired by these explorations. The workbook is meant to be written in and becomes a journal and portfolio of personal exploration and study. Assessments, progress checks, and grading rubrics are contained, as well as supplemental information students will find helpful as they explore perspective, figure proportions, media expectations, and timelines. Created and written by Eric Gibbons, award winning art educator in New Jersey, he is the author of dozens of art education books and articles for Firehouse Publications. With more than 25 years of classroom experience, his resources are all tested in a public school setting, and used by teachers around the world. His blog, Art Ed Guru, is visited by thousands daily.

Economy Black & White Travel Edition (Even if the Amazon preview shows color photos inside, This version is BLACK & WHITE!) Great for writing notes as you go! This book is a guide and a diary of our 5000 mile, four week road-trip from California to New Jersey with a focus on seeing the best of America, and eating at some of the most noted restaurants along the way. We have also included information for those that would like to extend their own road trip to include New England sights through Cape Cod, MA. The total cost of the trip was about $10,000 for two people, including all meals, gas, lodging, park fees, light shopping, snacking, and gambling in Las Vegas. This book contains a GPS list of points and an address guide that follows our route and includes area restaurants and what their specialty items are. * Napa, CA * Russian River, CA * Sonoma, CA * San Francisco, CA * Yosemite National Park, CA * Carmel, CA * Pacific Coast Highway * Hearst Castle, CA * Los Angeles, CA * San Diego, CA * Las Vegas, NV * Hoover Dam, NV * Grand Canyon, AZ * Page, AZ * Monument Valley, UT * Moab, UT * Arches National Park, UT * Denver, CO * Loveland , CO * Kansas City, MO * St Louis, MO * Mammoth Cave, KY * Charlottesville, VA * Luray Caverns, VA * Washington, DC * Philadelphia, PA * Bordentown, NJ * Manhattan, NY * Mystic Seaport, CT * Boston, MA * Provincetown, MA. This same title is available in a full color edition as well.

This edition is intended for middle school and high school students, and includes 20 lesson ideas for teachers, with additional space for sketching and planning projects. It will also be an easy read for college art students and artists wishing to explore the foundation of expressionism. An elementary edition is also available and is labeled as such.It''s easy to say you love someone or dislike something. You can even draw things to help people understand these feelings, like a heart or a frowning face. But artists can say the same thing with colors and shapes. It''s like a secret language, a code that is very easy to understand once you know how. Why do you think nearly every country uses the color red on their stop signs? There is a good reason. Red is a color that grabs attention and alerts us to possible danger. Why are many toys made from circles? Is it because circles are softer? You already use the ideas of color and shape in your everyday life. Everybody does. We just need to learn to use these ideas to show our feelings when we make art. This book will help you learn about these ideas and use them to create art with secrets in them. We call that expressionism. With these ideas you can paint a face and use color to show how you feel about that person. You could also paint a face of a person and not even draw the eyes, nose, and mouth. By using colors and shapes that show what the person is like, we can say something about that person. It''s like painting an idea instead of painting "stuff."