Drawing with an Eraser was a super fun lesson, especially as I ended up buying some special erasers which were shaped specially for drawing with. Art Lab: Drawing with an Eraser - Trying Out The Medium First things first. I set up a still life for the girls to draw: The girls covered their paper…
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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: 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.…
Art Lab for Kids: Picture Study – Rose Sielian Theriault ‘Pear Squared’
With each of the art labs comes an artist study. I love artist studies, they are one of my favourite ways to teach the children! This study was on Rose Sielian Theriault: Rose Sielian Theriault: Pear Squared The art chosen was an etching called 'Pear Squared'. The girls cut out, labelled and stuck in their…
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…