Book details: 58 pages. Includes digital colour sketches to every page(Tayasui App – iPad and stylus), artwork (Starry Night – Van Gogh), with text.

SUMMARY: Oupa (granddad) visits Leon at the Playcentre (Kindy). They make exciting sketches and stick figures of Leon’s activities at Kindy. They paint with watercolours, and Oupa shows Leon how to illustrate movement. The book includes an introduction to digital sketching – creating pencil & watercolour artwork – using the Tayasui Sketches App (IPad & stylus).

Notes to parents and caregivers:

Spelling used in the text: British

Who is this book for?

It is for children from about 4 years of age to 12 years of age.

The book can be read to:

Children of  4 years of age to about 6 years of age.

Self-reading:

Children of about 6 to 12 years – who have developed their reading skills – can read this book.

Sketching and painting:

Parents, caregivers, and teachers can assist children to make some basic stick figure sketches with a soft pencil and add watercolours. Some basic lines (straight and squiggly), as well as basic shapes and forms, are included (e.g. circles, squares, triangles) in the simple illustrations. Watercolours are a great medium to teach children about colours and the basic skills of finer painting. The most basics sketching with a soft pencil (6B) and watercolour painting are covered. Watercolour pencils (soluble) are a great alternative to watercolours. Once the sketches or drawings are coloured in the child is instructed to use a fine artist’s brush and a little water to transform the colour pencil into watercolours. Watercolours are a great and exciting technique to add to children’s repertoire of sketching and painting. With this book, it is the ideal opportunity to introduce basic watercolour painting. It also touches on digital sketching using a tablet and stylus. The Tayasui Sketch App (IPad) is illustrated in this book. It includes pencil sketches, painting with watercolours, and using the airbrush for backgrounds.

Keywords and repetitive words:

Kindy, Playcenter, watercolours, soft pencil, sharpener, stick men, red, blue, green, yellow, Oupa (grandad), bag, car, fish, bubbles, sun, swing, movement, birds, digger, cap, trousers, shirt, shoes, feet, hands, eyes, hair, glasses, seat, truck, levers, sandpit, sand, hammer, nail, bench, saw, wood, timber, tiger, dress up, girl, spots, tractor, trailer, wheels, poi, swing, lunch box, apple, banana, sandwich, plastic tub, sit, donkey, hand puppet, pointy, move, mouth, slide, tree, bird, ground, ball, throw, ring, peg, square, circle, triangle, book, photo, story, ducks, feed, bread, camera, photo, button, view building, viewfinder, window, Tayasui sketches App, stylus, iPad, digital sketching.