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Discover secret math and science tricks to creating art! This title introduces young readers to the sciences, with a creative twist. Math and science educational pages are interspersed with cool optical illusion activities that offer practical applications of the information students learn in class. All activities include how-to photos, easy instructions, and clear explanations. Reinforce Common Core Standards in reading, math, and science, while...
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"Art doodling stimulates creativity and develops drawing skills. Discover the thill of using simple Art Doodle patterns to build up a stunning optical illusion. Step-by-step guides lead you through from rough sketch to finished artwork. Learn how to use geometric shapes to create incredible visual trickery! Packed with inspirational ideas and designs that show how easily amazing 3D effects can be achieved."--Back cover.
11) Illusion art
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Introduces the principles of illusion art, explaining how artists use perceptions of depth and distance, foreshortening, super-realism, tromp l'oeil, anamorphs, and changing points-of-view to create their unique form of art.
15) The phantom limb
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Living in a dreary new home with his father dead, his mother hospitalized, and his grandfather increasingly distant, fourteen-year-old Isaac's wish for someone to reach out to him comes true in the form of a phantom arm that appears in a mirror box designed to help amputees, warning of danger.
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Children love to be fooled--and artists are some of the greatest tricksters around. This collection features artworks that incorporate a variety of methods for tricking our eyes: including trompe l'oeil, clever uses of color and perspective, Surrealism, and Photo-Realism. Arranged thematically, each work is presented in a two-page spread. Lively texts explain the methods the artists employed to shape their illusions. Reproduced in vibrant color, these...
19) Eye teasers
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Those studying art spend a long time learning about how to create the right perspective. Depending on what's around a tree or animal, the main part of the image can look different, bigger, smaller, closer, or farther away. It's really just a trick. Readers learn how the brain is affected by these optical illusions through accessible content as well as many examples they'll have fun deciphering.
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"Magic is the art of creating impossible effects that violate our expectations, games that conclude with the apparent transgression of natural law. As spectators, we find magic tricks--and the state of true cognitive dissonance that they create--tremendously provocative. Why is our brain caught by surprise? The human brain is a very advanced organ, its capacities highly adapted to our environment and lifestyle. But its capacities are not unlimited....
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