TITLE OF BOOK

ILLUSTRATOR

AUTHOR

*Please use complete sentences to complete this worksheet.

1) ARTISTIC MEDIUM: Material chosen by the artist to apply images to a surface (pen and ink, pencil, woodcuts, oil paint, watercolors, pastels, collage, etc.)

* Why do you think this is the medium used?

2) ELEMENTS OF ART: Choose at least three of the following elements and define them. Then explain how each element is used in the book giving examples.

3) What mood or feeling do these illustrations show and how do they show this mood? (happy, sad, scary, mysterious, funny, etc.)

4) Use Junior Authors and Illustrators to find your illustrator’s artistic influences. (artist’s education, background, people who influenced him/her, travel experiences, etc.)

5) Using a specific example (details about an illustration and the words that go with it), tell how the illustrations compliment the story (how they work together to make a complete story).

6) What do you like or dislike about the illustrations?