![]() Presumably that entails helping them avoid making mistakes whenever possible. Even in classrooms without grades, most students receive a “passing” or “failing” mark.Ĭonventional wisdom suggests that when it comes to mistakes, we should help our children as much as possible. ![]() The logic seems somewhat counterintuitive in a world where teachers still grade papers in red ink and assign “F” grades (for “failing,” of course) to subpar assignments. Some readers may question the premise of this book. Think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful! The overriding message is summarized in the final pages of the book. The mistakes in the book cleverly focus on art, but it’s not difficult for readers to draw parallels between this theme and virtually everything else in life. With every page comes a new accident - a folded corner, a couple drops of spilled paint - and an interactive opportunity for readers to “do” something creative with it. For example, on one page children pull back flaps to see how a stain left by a coffee mug can be transformed into a beautiful work of art. Making the most of mistakes is a central theme of Beautiful Oops! ( public library) by Barney Saltzberg, a playful and thoughtfully designed book for children ages three and up. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new.” “We need to think about failure differently,” Ed Catmull asserted in Creativity, Inc., his tell-all book on managing Pixar Animation Studios. Not only did the lion make the piece larger, it made it more intimidating and suspenseful, which I enjoy more than a baby elephant simply going for a stroll.A playful book with a timeless lesson for young readers - it’s okay to mess up, and failure is nothing to be ashamed of. Then I accidentally created my own ink blot (a large smudge of black colored pencil I couldn't remove) and transformed that into a nose, and then the idea came to me that I could add more to this piece and to the story of an elephant in the savanna. In the beginning, I only originally transformed the ink blot into the elephant, with no intention or idea of what I could add as a background or how to make the piece larger and cover up more white space. I also believe that if I had tried to create this with paint or markers or something of the sort it would've been a lot harder to get the grassy look that I accomplished with the colored pencils. Also, if the piece was done in plain graphite I don't think that it would have as much as an effect as the lion blending into its surroundings and the elephant standing out like an easy target. ![]() I chose colored pencils because I figured that it would be easier to create the blending of the lion's mane and the colors of the grass without making it look odd or off. I created this piece using regular graphite pencil at first for the sketch, then moved on to using colored pencils. ![]() The lion is also the same colors as the grass so it does not stand out, unlike the elephant who stands out a lot with it's black skin. The elephant and lion are featured in the middle of the page, with the lion being much bigger than the elephant to give it a more scary and suspenseful aspect. ![]() The elephant is following a butterfly and the lion is getting ready to pounce because the elephant does not see him. There is a baby elephant in front of the lion, oblivious to the fact that it is watching him. The setting is the savanna grasslands where there is tall, yellow-tan grass that lions from those areas can blend in well with. This Beautiful Oops depicts a lion watching it's prey from the tall grass. ![]()
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