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Inspired by Picture Books: A Daily Practice of Creative Prompts
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Taught by Constance Moore
There's no need to visit a museum or fancy gallery to find beautiful art when there's a whole world of inspiring illustrations to be found inside children's picture books. This daily practice from artist, educator, and children's book illustrator Constance Moore pulls from these different facets of her life to bring you a unique art class for all ages. Each day, Constance shares a children's book, including a few she has illustrated herself, with a creative prompt inspired by the art in each book. Explore the elements of line, shape, and color while focusing on using accessible tools and materials found in most classrooms. Try playing with watercolor, tempera paint, oil pastels, or whatever materials inspire you. This class includes drawing, painting, collage, and even a three-dimensional piece. With years of experience teaching art to children, Constance embraces the joy of getting back to the basics, allowing you to discover and free your own creative spirit.
Learn how to:
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Children's books for inspiration - you can find a complete list of books that Constance refers to in the class PDF
- Various papers and construction papers including black and white papers
- Various marking tools like colored pencils, pens, crayons, eraser, pens, pencils, gouache, tempera, and watercolor paints
- Watercolor paper
- Adhesives such as glue, glue stick, and tape
- A jar of water and paper towels
- Paper ephemera such as file folders and magazine pages
- Scissors
- Paint brushes
- Sumi ink
- White gelly roll pen
- Ballpoint pen
- Oil pastels
Downloads:
- Find creative inspiration in children's book illustrations
- Play with tempera paint, watercolor, crayons, oil pastels, construction paper, white glue, and other accessible classroom materials
- Observe your environment to find all types of lines, shapes, and colors
- Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional art
- Mix paint colors and match them to a natural objects
- Explore radial symmetry, simple portraits, resist techniques, found words, doodling, collage and so much more
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Inspired by Picture Books: A Daily Practice of Creative Prompts Reviews
70 users recommended this class to a friend
Carmen Tibbets
I wish there were more than 5 stars! This was a gentle intro to all the basic art concepts. The world would be full of more artists if we all had teachers like this when we were kids. This would be a wonderful parent/child class, BUT this series is a wonderful way for adults to revisit the basic concepts in a stressfree, joyful way. Everyone should take this class. I will be coming back to this one again and again.
4 days ago
Patti Jahsman
Wow, amazing course. Introduced me to picture books in a whole new way. The instructor was excellent. I will come back to this course many times. Thank you for the inspiration
April 11, 2026
Ginny White
I really enjoyed spending time playing with colours and paper for these projects. Thanks
More than 3 months ago
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