Splodges

Turning "splodges" into flowers and fish, spatters into birds, drips into trees and clowns, Malcolm Carrick inventively recognizes that the young artist's "accidents" can be turned into fully realized forms. The intimate relationship between the picture book artist and the young reader has rarely been shown to better advantage than in Splodges, part journey into the discovery of imagination and part narrative "how-to." Here is an introduction, in full color, to painting and drawing, which instructs as well as charms.