Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Thursday 8 April 2021

A is for Art Lessons at Home

 Welcome to week one of blogging through the alphabet.  Today is the letter A and I would like to talk about a rather cliche topic - Art in Your Homeschool and my co-host Desiree is sharing A is for Among Us.


ART is not my strong point and neither is getting out all the stuff that is needed to be creative.  My daughter loves to paint.  My first born loved drawing.  I am not an artist by any stretch of the imagination.  Nathaniel's talents are more in the digital media using Cinema 4D but we still needed to do hands on art.

I discovered early in my homeschooling journey that I needed help. Intially that came through a co-op. We would pack a lunch and go over to the hall where the children participated in a group art class.

After we moved to Australia we had no co-op we could join.  This ment I needed to find a solution.  I approached a homeschool Mom who lived in the local area and arranged with her to team up.  She taught the children music (ie recorder) and I taught a weekly art session in my home. Being accountable through the weekly Virtual Fridge link up and to their family really helped keep me on track.  .

Tessellating Tile Art found in The Usborne ART Treasury on pages 84 -87.

 

Some Ideas to do Art from Home are...

Do not LIMIT your thinking of art to drawing.  Art is truly a multifacited medium.  It covers achitecture, the decor in your home to the classical ideas of sculpture and painting.   That is what makes it such a deep experiece to have in your homeschool because you are surrounded by art everywhere you go.

Use your community.  - Immersion is a wonderful way to experience and explore art.  Look in the news, do some google searches to see What's On ...  Here a few ideas to get you started


Modrian Inspired Art

 

Choose a famous artist

Book recommendations

here are a few of my favourites

Drawing Textbook sample lesson Thirteen
Drawing Textbook Lesson 13

If you have a student who wants to learn to draw I highly recommend you invest in the Drawing Textbook by Bruce McIntyre.

For Natural History Illustration be sure to check out the FREE edX course: Drawing Nature, Science and Cultrue: Natural History Illustration 101.

Online Art Tutorial Programs we've used and enjoyed

  • ArtAchieve - There are five year levels available.  You are able to purchase single lessons of any project you would like to use in your homeschool.  The lessons are presented in different formats (PowerPoint or video) by John Hofland.  Every lesson has a comprehensive lesson plan available covering many aspects on the topic at hand. Be sure to try a FREE lesson with ArtAchieve: FREE Level I-Art Lesson I-2: The Czech Cat "There is no right or wrong way to draw. One drawing is not better than another.  It's just different - because the people who are drawing are different "- John (ArtAchieve)
  • See The Light -  We have loved using the video based lessons.  Each video contains three step by step lessons.  Lessons are in a step by step format and available as downloads or DVD.  You can request your free lesson from here. We have really enjoyed the Art Projects series and learnt so many great things from pop art (Repeated Sweets - Wayne Thiebaud Artist Study) to pointillism fruit.
  • A few years back we did a series of art pieces via the on line art lessons using Creating a Masterpiece. I really liked the way each lesson is broken up into shorter step by step lessons making it easy to accomplish really complex pieces over a number of days or weeks. You can try a free lesson over here.

 On Pinterest

Picture Study Resources


Chareen repeated sweets: cupcakes

 Art Resources on line

Homeschool Friends recommend these art programs

I would love to hear what YOU have used to teach art in your homeschool.

Blessings
Chareen


 

Link up your posts starting with the letter A for this weeks ABC Blogging.

Wednesday 6 June 2018

To My Parents ... a painting of love {Virtual Fridge}

This Week
Can you believe it's June already?  Just Wow almost half way through 2018. This week as I was filing all the papers that I seem to collect in my office space I discovered a precious keepsake that I am pleased I kept. Sometimes it's hard to decide what to keep and what to discard.  This one had a little note written on the back:  "To my deareast parents Enjoy the picture. Love from your daughter Jane."  I have no idea how old Jane was when she painted this all I know is it's well over 12 years ago.  

Today Jane is creative, fun, loving, inspirational, energetic and much more. She made this gorgeous outfit for a Disney themed birthday party. It cost her $2 at the local opp shop. 

She's been well and truly bitten by the travel bug and I love to see the world through her eyes.  Her photography is stunning.  I do hope she starts a travel blog one day soon (hint hint Jane 😘). Check out her instagram @peachy_travels.

Mesmerize by Jane



Are you on INSTAGRAM ?  You can now use your IG account to link up an show us your art adventures.


This weeks Feature

This weeks feature is a tutorial from over atOur Unschooling Journey Through Life and is a step by step tutorial on making Marbled Paper using Spray Paint and Water.

Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.
Virtual Fridge Link Up

Blessings
Chareen

Connect with me
 Facebook Google+ Pinterest Instagram YouTube RSS Feed


Your hosts are


Add YOUR LINKS from your BLOG or INSTAGRAM


Please NOTE by adding your links to the Virtual Fridge link up YOU are giving the hosts of the Virtual Fridge link up permission to use a photograph from your blog to feature 
your ART along with a link to your art/tutorial.



Wednesday 4 October 2017

ArtAchieve Student Work: The Hawaiian Frog {Virtual Fridge}

This Week
We have been pursuing art projects on ArtAchieve.  This week we completed Level III-Art Lesson 1: The Hawaiian Frog. We use the PowerPoint step by step tutorials on ArtAchieve. 



Are you on INSTAGRAM ?  You can now use your IG account to link up an show us your art adventures.


This weeks Feature

This weeks feature is a tutorial from over at Our Unschooling Journey on how to Make Paper Rainbows!
Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.
Virtual Fridge Link Up

Blessings
Chareen

Connect with me
 Facebook Google+ Pinterest Instagram YouTube RSS Feed


Your hosts are


Add YOUR LINKS from your BLOG or INSTAGRAM


Please NOTE by adding your links to the Virtual Fridge link up YOU are giving the hosts of the Virtual Fridge link up permission to use a photograph from your blog to feature 
your ART along with a link to your art/tutorial.



Thursday 24 August 2017

Birch Grove Water Colour Paintings {Virtual Fridge}

This Week
The week before last I shared a featured an amazingly easy art project over at Homeschool Coffee Break: water colour Birch Grove project.  This was one of the most effective and easy art projects we have attempted.  I was rather pleased with the results of this project.

Chareen

Ethan (11)

Laura (12)

Nathaniel (12)


Are you on INSTAGRAM ?  You can now use your IG account to link up an show us your art adventures.


This weeks Feature

This weeks feature is from over at Homeschool Coffee Break.  I always love to see the progress of budding artists.  Kennedy's art inspires me to keep doing art projects with my children.

Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.
Virtual Fridge Link Up

Blessings
Chareen

Connect with me
 Facebook Google+ Pinterest Instagram YouTube RSS Feed


Your hosts are


Add YOUR LINKS from your BLOG or INSTAGRAM


Please NOTE by adding your links to the Virtual Fridge link up YOU are giving the hosts of the Virtual Fridge link up permission to use a photograph from your blog to feature 
your ART along with a link to your art/tutorial.