AHA Moment for Chapter 3 Picture books

 Chapter three  discusses  how picture books are used to help children understand  stories. When children  first begin to read  their reliance on the pictures in the books that they read  is very important. Children  look to the pictures  for clues to help them figure out what the book is saying and to understand the story itself. Many times when children are learning to read the can read the words but   are not able to understand what they are reading  because their focus is on decoding the words picture books  help students  begin to understand the readings and make sense of what they are reading.
     There are several elements to the  art in  picture books that  create the  feeling and mood  of the book to help tell the children what the book is about. the elements that this chapter focused on were line,  color, texture, design and  media and technique. The  technique of lines  is  used to separate  different  colors or where different colors come together. the lines in a  picture are used to help create a mood in which the illustrator is trying to convey. Lines can be  either thin ans  swift or thick and  stable. The lines in a picture are used to focus the viewers attention. The next element of the art  of illustrations  is color. Color is  one of the most profound elements in illustrations. The  colors   help to create the mood and  tome of the  book  whether  they  be  cool  blues, greens and purple  or  warm reds, yellows and oranges the  colors used in the illustrations  can convey several different feeling  that the  characters of the book are feeling. the  colors can express some of the  things that  the  word  can not always make clear for the reader. the next element is the shapes used in the illustrations. the shapes are used to contrast he positive and negative spaces on the pages to help  explain the story in several different ways. The texture which can be smooth, rough to convey visual contrast, patterns  of movement and  roughness or delicacy. the design is used to create  meaning and feeling. then finally there is media and technique these two elements are what the artists used  for the artist to create a medium  to work with and can be combined  with different techniques to create an overall mood for the book.

 There are also several  styles of art  that are used to  to make the illustrators work recognizable. The first style the book  discussed is representational art. Representational art consists of  literal realistic depictions of the characters or objects  and events in the stories.  Surrealistic  art   contains elements that  are  not  real and  have a whimsical feeling that tends to create a  child like mindset for the  reader. surrealistic art  usually portrays  images experienced in dreams, imaginations or in a  state of hallucination. Impressionistic art uses light and color  to create fleeting impressions of reality. At times the  pictures  are broken up into tiny bits to mimic the way the eye perceives images and merge colors to create images.  Folk art and naive art depict  certain cultural groups . This type of art  usually contains certain symbols motifs. Naive art  tends to mimic  folk art and  can be  hard to distinguish between the two. In Naive art the  people are usually represented in a frontal  manner and  the objects in the background  are represented in a simple fashion. Outline style  emphasizes the  line  in the pictures and  tends to  reduce the  features and simplify the shapes of the objects. some artists also like to mic the  styles  and  creat a style of their own to set them apart from other illustrators.