Cimabue, our artist study for the term, used tempera paint to paint both on wood and on plaster to create frescoes. I will be writing a separate post which will outline the work we completed whilst studying his art. For now, I will be showing you how to make tempera at home using chalk dust…
Category: Art Lessons
Art Lab Lesson Six: Scrape Art
I'm playing catch up a bit, so these art lessons were done last year sometime. I use the book above, Art Labs for Kids, and we are working our way through it slowly. This week's lesson was about Scrape Art Art Lab: Scrape Art: Trying Out The Medium This is another lesson that Lil helped…
Art Lab Lesson Five: Oil Pastels
In our sixth Art Labs lesson, the girls tried out using oil pastels creating some beautiful sketches of Winnie the Poo and of their giant teddy bear
Art Lab for Kids: Lab 3 – Scribble Drawings
Over the past week, the girls have been creating scribble drawings. They had so much fun, it was like looking for shapes in the clouds! Scribble Drawings: Practice I always have the girls use their sketch pads to do a relaxed, non-final drawing based on the lesson. Because it is just a casual sketch, it…
Art Lab for Kids: Susan Schwake Artist Study – Large Scale Ink Drawing
We are half way through our second Art Lab, which is about giant ink drawings. As part of this lesson, the girls have been doing a Susan Schwake Artist Study. Actually, it was more of a picture study but Susan Schwake didn't name the giant ink picture she used for the lesson: I wanted the…
The Israelites in Slavery
We had great fun learning about the Israelites in Slavery, and the girls experienced a little (a very little) about what it was like being a slave to the Egyptians. Israelites in Slavery: Reading Abigail read the lesson from the Mystery of History text book, and I read out everything covering the Israelites in Egypt…
Art Lab for Kids: Lab 1 – Contour Drawings
In my quest for simplicity and ease, I was directed to Art Lab for kids by Susan Schwake. I used this resource for the first time last week, and I have to say, it's great! And better still, it fulfils the whole ease of use quality that I need at this time in our homeschool.…
Butterfly Inspired Jewellery
Lillie latest art lesson was on sculpture. She chose to focus on her jewellery (of course). The first set of photos were taken at the nearby butterfly garden. It was these photos, along with sculptor Richard Cresswell's butterfly benches, which inspired her to create some beautiful, unique butterfly jewellery. Anyway, enjoy! The following photos show…
Hundertwasser Art Study
Hundertwasser Art Study: The Artist Hundertwasser was both an exceptional and individualistic artist as well as being an environmentally friendly one! He liked to create his art within nature as well as having it point towards nature. As a man passionate about nature, he used his art to spread the message on conviviality between man…
Learning the Art Basics: Colour Theory
This is a copy of Lillie's eighth art lesson, which was all about colour theory. The final task was to create a colour still life of fruit. She loved this lesson and learnt such a lot that she will be able to apply to her jewellery making in the future. This time, instead of a…
Charcoal Self Portrait {Learning the Art Basics}
This lesson Lillie had to draw a charcoal self portrait. Charcoal is a tricky medium to use because detail is fairly hard to achieve. Lil did lots of preparatory work and created a lovely self portrait. She received 95% for the lesson, along with lots of ideas for her to try out. The self portrait…
Portraiture {Learning the Art Basics}
This post will describe all of Lillie’s portraiture work. Lillie is doing so incredibly well with her art. We requested a change of tutor, not because there was anything wrong with the one we had, but because we wanted more input into what Lil was doing well and what she needed to improve upon. We…
Drawing Cutlery {Learning the Art Basics}
Lesson five was all about drawing cutlery. The actual purpose wasn't that one needs to become a connoisseur at drawing a knife and fork; no, the real reason why learning to draw cutlery is so important is on account of its shiny surface. Shiny, reflective surfaces are notoriously difficult to capture accurately and the artist…
Graphite Still Life {Learning the Art Basics}
This lesson was a simple graphite still life. And honestly, I think if Lil had just done the still life that would have been okay. Thing is, she has me as a mother, and being art and all....well I can't seem to help myself, I must tinker! This means what should have been an quick…
Art Achieve {Review}
My two younger daughters have been enjoying art lessons from the Entire Level II from ArtAchieve. ArtAchieve is a company which offers cultural art lessons based in a country of the world and comes with extensive extra curricula ideas for extending the student's learning past just an art lesson. We were blessed to be on…