Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

For some of his most iconic paintings, including celebrity portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol used photographs to create silkscreen “stencils,” pushing ink through the silkscreens and layering it on top of images he had already traced and painted by hand. For his Campbell’s Soup Cans, he used a slightly different technique, tracing the images using a projector and filling in the outlines using paint and brushes. Check out the books below to learn how Warhol and other artists created works of art that inspire our hearts.

Art Is Everywhere: A Book about Andy Warhol by Jeff Mack

Child of the Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of the Nahua by Gloria Amescua

The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson

Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair by Amy Guglielmo

Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker Harvey

We Can: Portraits of Power by Tyler Gordon

Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes by Don Tate

Jackie Ormes (Leaders Like Us) by Miller

Just Being Dalí: The Story of Artist Salvador Dalí by Amy Guglielmo

Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe

Iris Apfel (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Hokusai: He Saw the World in a Wave (What the Artist Saw) by Susie Hodge

The Story of Stan Lee (The Story Of) by Frank J Berrios

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin