Creative books from Typotex Publishing
Even the youngest audience can learn, in a playful manner, about the decorative painting patterns and motifs of various cultures from this brand new book series invoking creativity and imagination. By colouring and drawing the various shapes, our young readers can become part of the creative process. Printed on special paper and especially for felt-tip pen colouring, this book series is particularly suitable for the early development of aesthetic sensibilities and drawing talent.
Júlia Katona: Kreatív díszítőművészeti mintakönyv (The Book of Decorative Painting Patterns)
Typotex Publ. House, Budapest2005
32 p. with 300 illustrations
Ornamentation has been an important form of human expression throughout the ages and cultures. But a particular style can be better understood through drawing, copying, and colouring than just watching.
The rich decoration of a Chinese porcelain vase fills us with wonder, yet we are capable of replicate these patterns, if we ?just ? grasp the structure of the individual shapes and their fabric. This is what this template collection helps to achieve by providing the reader with an opportunity to become an artist. Relying on help lines and grids, the reader is invited to reproduce the motifs of antiquity, the palmetto ornaments of the renaissance, the shell-shapes of the baroque, or the geometric patterns of the Arab world. Meanwhile, the book guides through the most eye-catching styles and the greatest moments in the history of art. The author Júlia Katona is an art historian, specialising in the design of art-related games.
Éva Szalay: Mesés utazás a motívumok világába (A Mythical Journey into the World of Shapes)
Typotex Publ. House, Budapest, 2004
30 p. with 300 illustrations
The aim of this mythical journey is to acquaint young readers with the decorative patterns of various peoples and cultures and through this to help them make their environment more colourful. While colouring the motifs they can discover their aboriginal-self, dancing with a boomerang, the Sioux defending himself with a buffalo skin shield, the Japanese geisha, the Chinese serpent and the Masai warrior. As we open this book, a wonderful world comes to life. Following Éva Szalay?s lead, the children can relive the pleasure of creation and understand that there is no sorcery here. Indeed, even the most magical pattern is separated into simple lines in close-up, be it a Japanese cherry blossom, an African rain-mask, a Chinese lotus flower, a serpent-decorated palisade, a slice of orange, an Apache tepee, a piece of Pueblo pottery, an Australian armadillo, a didgeridoo, or a pointillist picture. The author-illustrator, the graphic artist Éva Szalay, relied on her personal experience as a practicing mother when crafting this book.
