Skip spends all day working with K-2 students.
His books for children are taken from two sources, life and/or experiences at school or that slightly warped and off-center brain of his.
There are more coming so stay tuned...
About "Abstracts: minimalist scribblings":
“Abstracts: Minimalist Scribblings shows children of all ages how simple lines can illustrate intriguing ideas. What a gem of a book!”
Anna Kichorowsky
Manager of Family & Community Programs
Austin Museum of Art-Downtown
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Print: $15.99 In this, his fifth book for children, author/illustrator Skip Ploss takes us to sea off Malaga Spain.
Mack is a Mackerel with something that sets him aside as different than the other denizens of his little part of the ocean. When he is called something he thinks is an insult we begin a lesson in misunderstandings, hurt feelings and unknown consequences.
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Print: $15.99 What kind of fish would Picasso be if he were to wake up one morning as one? What about other artists like Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollack or John Singer Sargent? This book exposes young artists (it has been used in kindergarten through second grade) to the notion that not only do we not have to look alike but we don't have to see the same things the same way either.
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Print: $9.99 In his latest book, author/illustrator Skip Ploss ("If Picasso Were a Fish" and "If I Had a Gift") shows children of all ages that you don't always have to draw a whole picture for the audience to get the picture.
The text is an abstraction itself as a semi-repeating form of Haiiku.
This book was chosen by the Austin Museum of Art to support thier exhibiltion of art by Sol LeWitt entitled "LeWitt x 2".
"Abstracts: Minimalist Scribblings shows children of all ages how simple lines can illustrate intriguing ideas. What a gem of a book!”
Anna Kichorowsky
Manager of Family & Community Programs
Austin Museum of Art-Downtown
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Print: $15.99 If I Had a Gift to Give is about a child who wants to give his friend everything he can think of for his friend's birthday only to discover that the best gift, and the only one he can afford, is the gift of friendship.
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Print: $9.99 In this, his fourth book for children of all ages, author and illustrator Skip Ploss offers another batch of abstract picture and haiiku pairs for young folks to explore.
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