I have selected 3 different and interesting artists for our picture study this year, in order to pique DD’s interest as we begin this new venture. I also wanted to choose artists of whom I could find ample resources, since we are just starting out. So this year we’ll study:
Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Monet (in that order)
My favorite website to find prints online? They are:
Artcyclopedia – Lists various museums around the world with prints online
ibiblio’s Web Museum
CGFA – extensive
And, if you are wanting to print some prints from the internet, this site – Image Resolution, Size and Compression – is excellent to help you understand resolution a bit and see if the print’s file size will work for the size print you want to make.
If you’re looking for a free book online about art for children, The Book of Art for Young People can be found over at Project Gutenberg.
We’ll be making a Fine Art album. I got the idea from Linda Fay at Higher Up and Further In. Visit her site to find out more about how to make one. I think it’s a great idea.
I also will be changing my desktop to the print of the week 
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Here’s how we will do artist/picture study:
Each week, on Friday we will do our studies. I’ll first introduce DD to the artist and let her look through a book or 2 from the library on the artist. Then I will selet a print and give her some time to study it with her eyes, look at all the details and enjoy to picture. Then I will take the picture and hold it so that I can see it, but she cannot. And I will ask her to “narrate” the picture for me, tell me everything she can remember about it.
I will also, as I said, put it on my computer desktop and then post the picture in our school room and on the refrigerator.
I plan on checking out several books throughout the 12 week rotation for each artist. I will choose 6 prints for the 12 weeks term and we will study 1 print for 2 weeks.
