How have I missed the wonderful works of this artist?
Piven says in the author's note that he spent three days with the oncology department at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel where he supervised a workshop for kids with cancer. The endpapers of the book have pictures of the whimsical and very inspiring artworks from these children.
In a word, "wow".
Not only a great way to get your child interested in art, everyone can shine with Piven's method of "drawing with objects". I gotta try this myself!
Here is a website for Piven. Click on the "See Portraits" button. This man is genius!
Here is his rendition of...guess who?
3 comments:
Sounds interesting! I'll look for it!
To my surprise, I guessed correctly. I think it was the nose.
I'm not sure what that says about me, but I'm guessing it's nothing good. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
"Wow" indeed. And I absolutely adore Steve's caricature of Barbara Streisand. Nothing more fitting than a microphone for her!
Now I gotta' order yet another children's book. Wonderful. Thank you.
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