The art and heart of homeschooling
Do you remember lying on your back in the summer grass and staring at the clouds overhead? Do your students do this? Let me share a few ways you can train your students to see nature. When I was growing up, before frantic carpools, piano lessons, sports, dance and a packed schedule year-round, we had endless, hot and humid afternoons to play dress-up and to
It’s always fun to paint outside! And this snowman is doing just that. We love that this tutorial offers such a wonderful amount of space for individual creativity. This snowman paints whatever YOU want him to! Enjoy Nana’s Snowman Paints Chalk Pastel Art Tutorial. Not only can you make the snowman just like you’d like him, you can design your background, plus – decide what
With the Olympics getting closer each day, it was time to make some Olympic rings chalk pastel art! This project is pretty simple. And you can make this painting your very own. Add the Olympic torch (our free video tutorial from our Winter Games art lessons) in the background or some athletes. Make it yours! Olympic Rings Chalk Pastel Art We’ve been learning with our
Today we are going to go on an art adventure! Most of our lessons are of everyday objects, landscapes and such, but in this tutorial we are going to paint an impressionistic type painting in the style of the great French artist Henri Matisse. A Matisse chalk pastel art tutorial. This is a famous and iconic figure called the “Icarus.” ~This post contains affiliate links
Now Available! Celebrate the Olympics with art! A Simple Start in Chalk Pastels: Olympics is for beginning or continuing art lessons in the chalk pastel medium. Just $4.99 What’s included in this art curriculum? Encouragement for getting started with chalk pastels, a simple supply list and… NEW Tutorials! Olympic torch bobsled downhill skier Olympic skate hockey stick and puck Olympic mountain scene Olympic medals How
When Nana and I create tutorials for you there is plenty of art work spread around. And when Nana made the cover design for our A Simple Start in Christmas Chalk Pastels, she had you in mind. She suggested we give away her original art work for our ebook. The art work, with original design by Lucia Hames, comes unframed and without the title across
Head over to iHomeschool Network’s 40 Days of Christmas for your chance to win one of three Southern Hodgepodge Art for All Ages Curriculum bundles! All four ebooks at one special price! A $36.92 value! Over 75 tutorials in this bundle! A Simple Start in Christmas Chalk Pastels A Seasonal Start in Fall Chalk Pastels Art for All Ages: Chalk Pastels Through the Seasons A
Encouragement is the key! I want to share a bit of my story as an “artist-teacher” with you today. I have had many teachers in my search for years to find my niche in the world of art. Some good, some excellent….this is the example of how a teaching method almost made me put my pastels up for good and it can be translated into
