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Artistic Pursuits

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Artistic Pursuits Senior High Book 1 ($42.95) is designed to be a one year course worth one high school credit.  It uses three grades of drawing pencils, vine charcoal and compressed charcoal. The contents of the course include: Space Line Texture Shape Form Value Contrast and Unity Balance Rhythm Depth by Overlapping Depth by Position and Size One and Two Point Perspective Atmospheric Perspective Proportion, the Face Proportion, the Figure Clothing the Figure While Munchkin adores drawing and art, we don’t always get around to it in school because it usually takes too much preparation time for me.  Artistic Pursuits…

Nurturing a Gift

Posted in Homeschooling, and Photography

Project 365 – #228 One of the benefits of homeschooling is the opportunity to nurture gifts, talents, and passions in our kids.  Munchkin thoroughly enjoys drawing and animals.  As time passes, she’s started to narrow down her interest in animals to a passion about horses.  Today, she drew this picture of a horse, Man ‘O War, from the Black Stallion book series.  This is her vision of what he would have looked like.  I love watching her grow in her drawing skills.  She does not get these skills from me.  They definitely come from Daddy and his side of the…