After a grueling week of speech preparation and competition, I was ready to get back to quiet activities at home. My daughter was recently given these lovely roses by her grandfather. We don’t have fresh flowers around the house often, so whenever we do have them, we use them for drawing practice […]
Tag: homeschool art
“How Artists See…”-Art Appreciation for Young Children
If you love sharing art with your children like I do, you’ll love the “How Artists See…” series by Colleen Carroll. I started going through “How Artists See Animals” this Spring with my 2nd grader. The layout is simple and easy to follow: picture of a piece of art […]
Painting Daffodils in the Sun
We saw some daffodils in the grocery store and my daughter thought they were so pretty. We decided to go home and paint some! First we looked at some pictures of daffodils on the internet and practiced drawing the basic structure in our sketchpads. Next, we gathered our supplies and […]
Drawing Your House
If you’re ever in need of a quick and easy art project for your young artists, look no further than your front yard. Take a chair out front and let them draw the house. This is an excellent exercise in looking closely at lines, shapes, and textures. Drawing a house […]
Usborne’s “Drawing Faces”
I love this book! I picked it up at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX. This is the best book I’ve ever seen for kids on how to draw faces. It contains 27 lessons on how to create faces of all sorts using many different techniques. It starts out demonstrating the […]
Millais: Portraits
I think it’s high time I beefed up my “Art Book” category on this blog. I’ve had one solitary book in this category for the past 8 months! I’m going to divide my collection into two categories: art books for children and art books for display and reference. The first book I would like […]
“Autumn Story” by Jill Barklem
Some of our favorite picture books are the Brambly Hedge series by British author and illustrator Jill Barklem. The illustrations in these books are as sweet as any I’ve ever seen. Every page is full of cute little woodland critters donning 19th century attire and going about their lives in quaint rural fashion. The […]
Tic-Tac-Toe for One
Lately, my 7 year old has been coming to me with heavy sighs, saying pitifully,” I’m bored, I don’t know what to do.” Now, this is something new and not at all normal for her. […]
What’s Your Favorite Color?
There were several things I did not appreciate in the public school system. One of these things was the perpetual crayon shortage at my elementary school. Have you ever read The Art Lesson by Tommie DePaola? My experiences were worse! I distinctly remember trying to color with building blocks when there were no crayons. That’s […]