{"id":2668,"date":"2018-01-19T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2018-01-19T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:29:47","slug":"free-vintage-drawing-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/19\/free-vintage-drawing-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Vintage Drawing Book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a wonderful, whimsical freebie to help kids (and parents!) learn to draw.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-content__embedded\">\n<figure class=\"article-image article-image--portrait\">\n<div class=\"media sticker-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/draw.jpg\" alt=\"draw\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw.jpg 500w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption media__body\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<p><em>What to Draw and How to Draw<\/em> was written in 1913 by E.G. Lutz and is one of the public domain books from the New York Public Library on Open Archive online.<\/p>\n<p>The 78-page book is full of old-fashioned, simple drawings for children, such as a castles, fish, birds, cats, all different people and toy soldiers, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>The book also contains simple instructions such as how to paint in watercolor, draw a five-pointed star and create ovals and ellipses.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the whimsical drawing lessons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2676\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/draw3.jpg\" alt=\"draw3\" width=\"655\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw3.jpg 655w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2673\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/draw6.jpg\" alt=\"draw6\" width=\"655\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw6.jpg 655w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2677\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/draw2.jpg\" alt=\"draw2\" width=\"655\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw2.jpg 655w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The book is copyright free and was uploaded by volunteers. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/whattodrawhowtod00lutz#page\/4\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">read it online<\/a> with your kids, or download it as a free<a href=\"http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/books\/OL7203499M\/What_to_draw_and_how_to_draw_it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> pdf file, e-reader file, Kindle ebook, and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2678\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/draw1.jpg\" alt=\"draw1\" width=\"655\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw1.jpg 655w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2672\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/draw7.jpg\" alt=\"draw7\" width=\"655\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw7.jpg 655w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2670\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/draw9.jpg\" alt=\"draw9\" width=\"655\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw9.jpg 655w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2669\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/draw10.jpg\" alt=\"draw10\" width=\"655\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw10.jpg 655w, http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/draw10-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a wonderful, whimsical freebie to help kids (and parents!) learn to draw. What to Draw and How to Draw was written in 1913 by E.G. Lutz and is one of the public domain books from the New York Public Library on Open Archive online. The 78-page book is full of old-fashioned, simple drawings for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}