Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools: Classes 1 to 8

Wonderful book! Useful for adult painting, art history, and teaching! Full of great ideas and examples.

I pre-ordered this book from Amazon several months ago and my copy just arrived. This beautiful book is nearly 400 pages long and jam packed with gorgeous color photographs. It is conveniently organized by grade with drawing and painting examples and detailed instructions for every project. It goes beyond crayon drawing and wet-on-wet watercolor and includes form drawing, charcoal and pastel drawing in the upper grades, and even paper cuts. This is hands down the best book I've ever seen on the topic. I see that Amazon pairs this book with Color Dynamics by Angela Lord; I own that books as well and I highly recommend it. If you can afford to buy both books, do so. If you can only afford one, make it Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools: Classes 1 to 8 by Thomas Wildgruber.

It was more than what I expected. So beautiful and helpful for beginning. I’m using this to guide and teach our watercolor lessons

Maybe I'm missing something. I like this book to help jump start or homeschool year with lessons on blending colors and adapting thoughts into pictures. But where are these stories they reference to? I know there are stories to be read while the kids paint to give them context and help brighten their imagination but I have no clue where to find them or even what I'm really looking for. We aren't in connection with a Montessori or Waldorf School, I just like to add these elements into our day as I can so bold like this are my bread and butter. I just with I knew of the companion with the stories that I could buy. I feel like for the price they should be in the book.

We are new to homeschooling this year and this book has been so helpful. My children were in public school up until last year (4th and 8th grade) so they missed out on a lot of the arts. I feel like I needed to start from the beginning and work our way up and this book is the perfect solution. It's full of beautiful images, separated by grade, and gives a lot of detailed instructions. Very happy with my purchase.

I’m happy to finally have this book: a Waldorf textbook approach to teaching art. I’m inspired by the outcome of scaffolded lessons from age to age. I’ve taught art for decades and so many people have said to me that all they can draw are stick figures. I want to use Waldorf Art education to help children feel self confident in art skills development.

The book is beautiful, nicely illustrated with many valuable instructions for the art teacher. However, as a practical guide for my specific needs, raising up illustrators and graphic artists who can actually draw, and survive in the highly competitive art world today, it lacked nut and bolt practicality. I would highly recommend this to the teacher who is guiding the fine artist. It's a full source for a fine art syllabus.

This is the book teachers use for art instruction at Waldorf. Our daughter transferred to a public school in 4th grade and does art once per week with her previous Waldorf preschool teacher. They explore different mediums and natural elements, but she was missing some skills for one of the art projects and asked me for a book to help her catch up to 6th grade curriculum. She was thrilled to see the exercises she knew she needed in this book.

Mi è piaciuto molto tutto il contenuto del libro di grande aiuto nell'insegnamento della pittura ai bambini dai 6 ai 14 anni

This book commences with a useful introduction and is then followed by a course of assignments to cover the duration of 8yrs. I bought it both for myself and my 5yr old daughter. We have started doing this together from lesson 1 and so far we are experiencing the wonder of colour, and the nature of water in painting. Its exciting in its freedom and promising in what it aims to teach in later lessons. Speaks to the soul on levels that the conscious mind could not go.

Livro incrível. Muito bem escrito e detalhado. Vale a compra.

An in- depth guide for beginners like me who has just finished my Waldorf teachers training. TWhat I like about the book is that it' very descriptive, step-by-step, has great language, and is categorised beautifully. A must have for anyone who wishes to pursue, study or teach Waldorf art to all ages.

sería bueno que lo editaran en español ya que es nuestra lengua materna y es bastante más fácil entenderlo gracias carolina