Mary Blair’s Unique Flair: The Girl Who Became One of the Disney Legends Written by Amy Novesky / Illustrated by Brittney Lee 40 pages / Grades K-4 From her earliest days, Mary Blair loved color and wanted to do nothing but create art. She collected color and saw the world through an eye of imagination. Don’t we all envision a turquoise moon? Follow her from being an imaginative child to becoming a Disney Legend, an illustrator who shaped a world of fantasy. C A T C H Context Arts Themes Create Heart Words A brief historical look Color - Mary didn’t Being a dreamer Build a color “….and her favorite into the world of Walt just see basic colors, dictionary. Collect color - blanco - the Disney and so many she saw shades and Imagination colors and examples color of a blank piece of the films we have hues. Color of colors from their of paper, of all come to love. A vocabulary is very rich Magic own journeys. possibility.” chance to share with and robust. students original Believing Create a new color “She painted colors designs for animated Cut paper and name it. you weren’t supposed movies such as illustrations. The Following a passion Challenge students to to paint together.” Cinderella and illustrator used Mary’s create a color a day. Dumbo, as well as unique style and Breaking the rules How do they choose “It was a small world beloved rides like “It’s blended it with cut their name? after all.” a Small World”. paper illustrations. There is a glimpse After collecting and “…colorful happily Geography - Mary into the process at creating colors, ask ever afters.” collected colors from the end of the book. students to break the around the world. Her rules and color their adventures allow an The art of whimsical worlds differently. introduction to the design. Mary found a Close their eyes and world and locating way to blend just imagine the real places on a map, imagination and world with magic while also magic with reality and thrown in. For older acknowledging the that paired hand in students, follow up culture and hand with the work of with a written artist contribution of each Walt Disney. statement. place. The Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM.