~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 [...]

Nana is here today to share how you can be an artist and paint motion… This is an easy, quick pastel painting that I think artists of every age will enjoy!  You can get into the tumbling motion of the water as it crashes down to the rocks below the falls.  I painted this from [...]

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 [...]

Naming every picture is a habit I learned from a teacher years ago who said, if you name your picture, it gives it permanence.  A named painting most likely will be kept and not thrown away!  Children are great believers in keeping their artwork…all of it! Name Every Piece of Artwork A finished painting deserves [...]

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 [...]

Pastel chalks are an easy and almost instantly rewarding way to introduce a student to creativity. Using the chalks are often referred to as “painting” rather than drawing. Chalks are pure paint pigment. Yes, they are messy and stain your fingers when you use them. We’ve shared often here at Hodgepodge those gentle tips to [...]