Basic Sculptural Modeling
Developing the Will by Working with Pure Forms in the First Three Grades

Hella Loewe

Softbound

$18.00

Hella Loewe has developed an approach to modeling that could be called "form drawing in three dimensions" - and, we think it is just exactly what our modern children need. It is also, from our own research and from hers, very much what Steiner was hoping children in grades 1-3 would be taught.

In this wonderfully illustrated book, Loewe takes us step-by-step through modelling exercises beginning with the sphere and moving into other symmetrical and non-symmetrical. The tasks are simple, yet absorbing, and training the hands and eyes to work together as they engage a child's attention, training it to sustain interest over longer and longer periods of time.

And, if that isn't what today's children need, I don't know what it might be. Loewe's approach is like a breath of fresh, reviving air - may it find its way into homes and schools everywhere!

Educating the Will

Michael Howard

Softbound

$18.00

Michael Howard penetrates the depth of Waldorf education’s unique process of educating the “will” in children. One of the most useful and fascinating aspects of his book is his thought-filled journey into the qualities and training of the “thinking-will” the “feeling will,” and the “comprehensive or common will.” His identification of different sculpture exercises as having to do with a particular type of will training opened doors of understanding for me, and I suspect will do the same for most readers. His final chapter offering practical exercises for application along with photo examples of projects is an added - and exciting - bonus. The projects include: indoor sandbox, form modeling, seed drawing, sand modeling, modeling human and animal forms, stone carving, wooden spoons and bowls, and platonic solids.

This is a masterful and highly practical exploration of what it means to educate the will, and of the qualities of will teachers and parents can help their children develop with sculptural activities. My hat is off to both author and publisher for producing such a useful book!

Painting in Waldorf Education

Dick Bruin and Attie Lichthart

Includes CD-Rom with 62 full color and black-and-white images of examples discussed in the text!!!

Softbound

$18.00

Painting in Waldorf Education is an exciting and much-longed-for resource for teachers and parents. This extraordinary book was written by two experienced Waldorf teachers from Holland who present the rationale as well as detailed practical exercises for teaching painting from Kindergarten through the grades and high school years. At last! a step-by-step presentation of the "how" of a painting lesson (beginning with observation and other preparatory exercises for students that are also wonderful for adults!). That the fundamental "why" and "when" questions are also answered makes Painting in Waldorf Education a resource that will be used often and remain in use for many, many years to come.

Included with the book is a CD Rom containing sixty-two color and black and white images selected from the work of their students.

Learning about the World through Modeling
sculptural ideas for school and home

Arthur Auer

Illsutrations by Elizabeth Auer

Softbound

$24.00

What a wonderful book! The author and illustrator have managed to combine a delicious array of modeling projects with a thorough discussion of the cognitive, social and personal benefits of the act of transforming a plastic material into an object of beauty.

You'll find suggestions for modeling from first grade through high school and beyond (including - and I'm so very happy to see this spelled out and illustrated - the exercise of transforming a sphere of clay successively into all the Platonic solids!), beautifully illustrated and clearly explained.

In the second half of the book, you'll find background information as to how modeling teaches about the world, enhances cognitive skills and develops human beings.

Outstanding!!

The Temperaments and the Arts
Their Relation and Function in Waldorf Pedagogy

Magda Lissau

Softbound

$15.00

Here's a insight-filled yet accessible discussion of the way the arts are used Waldorf Education to teach, guide and foster the whole student. Modern psychologists are currently focussing, once again, on temperament as an indication of soul constitution. This valuable contribution by a veteran Waldorf teacher and teacher-trainer will provide much insight for teachers, parents, and others seeking to better understand the developmental process in education.

Choirs of Colours
A Teacher/Parent Manual on Painting with Children 7 to 14

Alan Whitehead

$22.95

Grateful parents and teachers write almost daily to tell us how much this book has helped them guide the children in their care toward a love of artistic creating. Whitehead presents a spiritual and physical year-by-year exposition on watercolour painting, drawing and sculpture for grades 1-7. Also includes: spirits of colour, physiology of colour, world and Australian painting.

Grail of Beauty
The Seven Soul Arts and the Mission of the Nine Muses

Alan Whitehead

$22.95

Alan Whitehead has given us a lovely overview of the arts from the perspective of Rudolf Steiner's artistic impulse. Here is a tour of the evolution of art, the nature and purpose of the different arts, and - because Alan is, after all, a teacher first and foremost - lots of ideas about how to bring the arts alive in your home, community and school. This is a very joyous and wonderful book which I hope many, many people will be able to read.

Birth of Venus
Grades 8 - 12 Visual Arts
Painting, Sculpture, Drawing

Alan Whitehead

$22.95

A deeply considered, lively overview of the high school visual arts curriculum. Includes: Poster, landscape, watercolour, oils and abstract painting, relief, wood, portrait and stone sculpture, black and white, brush and ink, commercial, portrait and life drawing. Also, art history, grades 8-12.

The Secret Language of Form
Visual Meaning in Art and Nature

Van James

Softbound

$29.95

The pleasures of discovery that lie within this book are so exhilarating that you may want a cup of soothing herb tea alongside so that you won't interrupt yourself too often by jumping up and singing for happiness.

Van James has explored form as it emerges from nature and finds its way into art and from there into the human soul. His journey into the heart of meaning as we humans find it among the many forms Creation has given us constitutes a tour through an Earthly-Cosmic landscape that is at once always grounded yet never removed from spiritual reality. Hundreds of photos, drawings, and paintings greet you to illustrate each illuminate each of the author's observations; and, to evoke wonder and awe in your own heart. This is a feast of beautiful awakening.

Visit this book again and again, to study closely, to keep at hand for those times when inspiration seems far away, for surely you will find it anew within its pages.

Contents:

Part One: The Formative Nature of Art

• Primal Images
• Archetypal Images
  • Curve and Straight Line: The Alphabet of Form
  • Point and Dot: Origin
  • Circle and Spiral: Wholeness and Eternity
  • Chevron, Zigzag and Lattice: Patterns of Humanity
  • Ladder, Spine and Tree: The Ascent
  • Symmetry: The Lawfulness of Balance
  • Cross and Swastika: Death and Transformation
• Archetypal Themes in Art
  • Mandala: Picture of the Universal Self
  • Labyrinth and Maze: Journey to the Center of the Universe
  • Thread and Knot: The World Weaves

Part Two: The Formative Art of Nature

• The Essential Gesture
• The Open Secret