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So we’ve shared a You Can Be An Artist series for the past 10 days. And today we are sharing another passion. It’s a Hodgepodge, right? We are switching gears because I needed you to know about a fabulous parenting resource. Be sure to read through everything below because there is not only a mega [...]
~This post contains affiliate links to resources we love. Any purchases you make through our links help us continue to share absolutely free art tutorials with you! Please see our disclosure policy. On this, the final day of our You CAN Be An Artist series, I am arming you with resources. We’ve made the progression [...]
Please welcome a very dear friend and mentor to me, Barbara McCoy of Harmony Fine Arts and Handbook of Nature Study! So you have kindled a love of art in the early years of homeschooling…sharing great art and artists. You have provided lots of art supplies along with opportunities to create art but now you [...]
~This post contains an affiliate link to a resource we love and use in our homeschool. Please see my disclosure policy.~ Finger painting with Earth Paints “Every child is an artist…The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~ Pablo Picasso. Have you experienced this? We have. Our older children are [...]
Last week Phyllis at All Things Beautiful asked: “How do you store your finished pieces? Do you have special folders or notebooks?” That IS a good question! Because when you have a house full of artists, they can produce quite a bit of art work. Phyllis – you caught me working on that very thing! [...]
Circles. Round and simple. After the straight lines of landscapes, you can be an artist with beautiful fruits and vegetables! When starting with art the youngest of children, Nana shared the same approach. It’s a natural progression. Today I am offering up all the fruits and veggies we’ve shared before plus an absolutely free download [...]
Want immediate artistic results? Paint a landscape! It is an easy method for success. Nana has explained to us how the simple, straight lines and curves of a landscape are especially encouraging to budding artists. Draw a line for the horizon, blend in a brilliant sky, curve a path to the beach. That is is [...]
What is an artist? Webster defines it this way: Definition of ARTIST 1 a obsolete : one skilled or versed in learned arts b archaic : physician c archaic : artisan 1 2 a : one who professes and practices an imaginative art b : a person skilled in one of the fine arts I [...]
With a nod toward spring time sports and also painting a pastel that would be appreciated by boys and girls alike, my students and I have enjoyed working on a baseball and bat pastel! This is very simple and can be completed in about 15-20 minutes with only four steps! >Download your free Baseball and [...]
Some exciting things to share! Dear friends if you haven’t already downloaded your free Volcano Chalk Pastel tutorial, please do so right away. The lesson will be going away before our new tutorial will post on Friday. The other good news? If you subscribe now, you will receive the newest chalk pastel tutorial when it [...]
“With Jesus Christ at the center, our aim is to shape both minds and hearts in his image.” ~This is a sponsored post. See full disclosure policy for more details~ The iPad is a homeschooling tool in our home in many ways. We use apps to supplement and enrich various subjects. Not long ago, my [...]
Today we have a very special visitor! Vicki Bentley of HSLDA The Early Years and Everyday Homemaking is here to share about the absolutely free HSLDA membership available for parents of preschoolers. Plus, she is also giving away one regular membership to a homeschool family, five copies of her cookbook and five copies of the [...]
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