Simple lessons on teaching the grammer of art.
Welcome!
My name is Anna and I am a previous art teacher and current homeschooling mom.
I’ve created this blog to share art lessons that correlate to the Classical Conversations curriculum and to also give parents simple ways to teach art concepts beyond their CC community day experience. I hope it helps you!
I also publish a series of videos called Mealtime Monets that offer art lessons corresponding to Classical Conversations fine arts curriculum. -Anna
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Cycle 2 Week 3- Book of Kells
For week three students will be doing an upside-down drawing. The concept is about training our brains to see the image solely as a group of lines and shapes. It also relates back to OiLs and the ability to describe and duplicate lines. It is so, so, SO important to teach students to look at the object in front…
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Cycle 2 Week 2- Geometric Bear
Fine Art for week two is Mirror Images. The exercises this week are great for training students to pay attention to shapes and angles, while also practicing the skill of manipulating images in their head. They will need to study the shapes and be able to flip them around in their mind’s eye before they…
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Cycle 2 Week 1- Rainforest Drawings
The first week of CC is almost here. Woo hoo! (Or maybe, “Aagghhhh!”) Here is a drawing lesson that incorporates some science from week one (plants and animals in God’s creation) along with the OiLs drawing techniques. Below you will find three separate lessons (one for each age group) but all with the same theme.…
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Elements of Art
The seven elements of art are the building blocks of the visual arts- we use all the elements as we draw, paint, sculpt, and design. Knowing and memorizing the seven elements is important because it gives us the vocabulary to understand and discuss what we make and see. This core piece of grammar can be…