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New Find … check this one out … it’s a keeper!

{ May 31, 2007 @ 11:54 am } · { New Finds, art, picture study }
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The Lavie ChildrenNational Gallery of Art’s FREE Loan Program!!! From their website:

The National Gallery of Art’s Division of Education provides slide teaching programs, multimedia programs, videocassettes, CD ROMs, and DVDs to millions of viewers each year. These programs are intended to foster awareness of the visual arts and make Gallery collections accessible to a broad audience beyond the Gallery’s walls. They are circulated free of charge to educational institutions, community groups, and individuals throughout the United States.

Direct Loans
This option is intended for anyone’s personal or individual use. Homeschool parents and teachers are among our newest group of borrowers. The process resembles that of a lending library:

Cycle: Request –> Booking –> Shipping –> Presentation –> Return –> Inspection

Requests
Be sure to request programs well in advance of your planned presentation date. It is important that requests are received at least one month prior to anticipated use. Each request is booked for the desired date if possible; otherwise, programs are booked for the borrowers’ alternate date.

Loan materials may be requested online. Search the online catalogue by curriculum topic, subject, artist, or format and add desired programs to your cart. Alternatively, you may fax or mail a printable order form. See how to order for complete details.

You may also request a printed catalogue.

Confirmation
You will receive a confirmation by mail noting our shipping date and your return date for each program scheduled for your use.

Loan Period
All direct loans may be kept for two business weeks (or up to 9 months depending on program type); because programs are mailed well in advance, the actual loan period is frequently longer. We ask that you return program materials promptly.

The borrower pays only for return postage (media mail rate).

Hello! How cool is this???? You only have to pay for return postage, by media mail. I think I can swing that. I’m off to order some things ….

Picture/Artist Study

{ May 10, 2007 @ 11:28 am } · { art, picture study }
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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

Artchive

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 ;)

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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.

Year 2 Revisited

{ May 8, 2007 @ 11:53 am } · { art, music, planning }
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I have revisited my plan for next year and saw the need to revise my artist and composer schedule. I am wanting to introduce DD to artists and composers that will pique her interest, so I have chose the following for next year:

Artists:
Michelangelo
Rembrandt
Monet

Composers:
Beethoven
Vivaldi
Mozart

You can see my revised Year 2 plan here.

Oxygen & Sunshine

{ April 17, 2007 @ 7:16 pm } · { Charlotte Mason, art, outdoors }
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Charlotte Mason talked about how important oxygen and sunshine were for a child. Today we spent the afternoon soaking up both on this glorious day that the Lord has made. I thought I would share some pictures of what we did today …

We got this idea from Family Fun Magazine’s latest issue. I took a sheet (all I had was a fitted sheet) and hung it up on a make-shift clothesline. Then DD took her watercolors and went to town. She had a lot of fun. I’m trying to teach her that art is more than just the finished work — the process is also very important and should be enjoyable.


She decided to call this “Haphazard Art”. She likes to name her paintings. The other day she made a mess with black paint and named it “Artistic Mess” … a great name, by the way. I’ll have to take a picture and upload it here.
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My littlest DD decided that she wanted to get in on the action too. Of course, as of yet she has no idea how this works, so she thought she would “paint” my camera :) …

And here’s the final work of art. I think it’s pretty neat.

She’s wondering how we’ll hang it …
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And we finished off the afternoon with grape fruit juice popsicles. Yum …

Now we’re enjoying our daily quiet time. It’s a good day …

Blessings!