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Homeschool Art Programs
Reviews of the most user friendly homeschool art programs
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ARTistic Pursuits, Grades K-3 Book One, An Introduction to the Visual Arts
By Brenda Ellis, edited by Daniel D. Ellis
Allow your students' creativity to flourish with Artistic Pursuits! Requiring no expertise or experience, young students will benefit from the time of parent-child interaction as they learn about art history and techniques. Units include What artists Do, What Artists See, and Where We Find Art. Each contains easy-to-understand lessons of about 5-10 minutes, 30-60 minute projects, and included fine art prints, allowing students to view and study the great works in depth. Composition and observation skills, various media and techniques (e.g. scissors, glue, drawing, shape) and art through history, including caves, pyramids etc. are all covered. Assignments help develop artistic perspectives through observation, composition, and real, applicable art projects. This second edition features more master works. 88 pages, softcover with plastic protector cover; comb binding. Grades K-3; Book 1.
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ARTistic Pursuits, Grades K-3 Book Two, Stories of Artists and Their Art
By Brenda Ellis; Daniel D. Ellis, ed.
Walk your young students through the history of art in this creative path to artistic creation. Sixteen featured artists provide the backbone of this course, as students focus on the lives of artists such as Michelangelo, Bruegel, Vermeer and Millet, who left the world with a vision. Lessons are based on these individual artists, helping to fix in children's minds the character of each artist and their work. Each chapter features a short fictional work on the artist's childhood, information on media and methods used, notes on the time period, analysis of a master painting, and related projects. Covers from the late Gothic to the academy artists of the 18th century. 79 pages, softcover with plastic protector cover; comb-binding. Grades K-3; Book 2. 2nd Edition.
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ARTistic Pursuits, Grades K-3 Book Three, Modern Painting and Sculpture
By Brenda Ellis; Daniel D. Ellis, ed.
Teach your students to appreciate art in historical context! The Impressionistic and Modern art movements are explored here in Artistic Pursuits Book 3, showing students how to view works through elements of line, space and color. Helps students gain knowledge, understand concepts, and make applications with projects that explore the ideas behind art. Listed in chronological order, each lesson contains easy-to-understand lessons of about 5-10 minutes, 30-60 minute projects, and included fine art prints, allowing students to view, relate and study the great Modern works in depth. Perfect for hands-on learners, the emphasis on sculpture as and art form gives students a fun break from drawing and painting-only art classes. Expressionism, Impressionism, sctulpture, cubism, modeling and more are all covered. 89 pages, softcover with plastic protector cover; comb binding. Grades K-3; Book 3.
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ARTistic Pursuits, Grades 4-6 Book One, The Elements of Art and Composition
By Brenda Ellis; Daniel D. Ellis, ed.
Allow your students' artistic sides flourish with Artistic Pursuits! Requiring no expertise or experience, students will benefit from a complete overview of the artistic process from concept to creation. Focusing on composition, units include Building a Visual Vocabulary; American Art Appreciation & History; Techniques; and Application. Each contains four lessons, a project, and included fine art prints, allowing students to view and study the great works in depth. Assignments help develop artistic perspectives through observation, composition, and real, applicable art projects. Books for grades 4-6 introduces the elements of art with a focus on the media and basic techniques they'll be using in the future. Book 1 develops drawing skills through the study American art. Through viewing reproductions of classic works, students will learn to observe their world, and discover what to specifically look for as an artist. Simple drawing instruction is given, including space, line, shape, texture, value, form, edges, balance, rhythm, overlap, depth, movement and more. This 2008 revised edition now includes expanded art history, new drawing information, and special projects in scratch art and silhouette. 88 pages; comb-binding with plastic protector cover. Pages are not reproducible. For grades 4-6.
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ARTistic Pursuits, Grades 4-6 Book Two, Color and Composition
By Brenda Ellis; Daniel D. Ellis, ed.
Allow your students' artistic sides flourish with Artistic Pursuits! Requiring no expertise or experience, students will benefit from a complete overview of the artistic process from concept to creation. Focusing on composition, units include Building a Visual Vocabulary; American Art Appreciation & History; Techniques; and Application. Each contains four lessons, a project, and included fine art prints, allowing students to view and study the great works in depth. Assignments help develop artistic perspectives through observation, composition, and real, applicable art projects. Books for grades 4-6 introduces the elements of art with a focus on the media and basic techniques they'll be using in the future. Book 2 features color and painting media through the study of American art. By viewing reproductions of classic works, students will learn the rules of color with the color wheel, how to choose sets of colors with pure primary hues, and see how artists use color for emphasis. Easy-to-understand painting instruction is given, covering primary, secondary and intermediate colors, tinting, shading, neutral colors, direction and movement, rhythm, high/low point of view, buildings, people and more. This 2008 revised edition now includes expanded art history lessons, new information on color mixing, and special 3-D Collage and colored paper projects. 88 pages; comb-binding with plastic protector cover. Pages are not reproducible. For grades 4-6.
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ARTistic Pursuits, Junior High Book One, The Elements of Art and Composition
By Brenda Ellis; Daniel D. Ellis, ed.
Allow your students' artistic sides flourish with Artistic Pursuits! Requiring no expertise or experience, students will benefit from a complete overview of the artistic process from concept to creation. Focusing on composition, units include Building a Visual Vocabulary; Art Appreciation & History; Techniques; and Application. Each contains four lessons, a project, and included fine art prints, allowing students to view and study the great works in depth. Assignments help develop artistic perspectives through observation, composition, and real, applicable art projects. Artistic Pursuits Jr. High books are designed to involve the student in the creative process while developing strong observational skills. Book 1 focuses on drawing skills with a strong emphasis on world art, nurturing an appreciation of various art forms from different cultures. Units contain information not only on unique art forms, but also the culture, ideas and/or artist that created them; afterwards students apply their techniques through practice and a final project. Texture, shape, graphite pencils, brush & ink, rhythm, symmetry, composition and value are covered. 89 pages; comb-binding with plastic protector cover. Pages are not reproducible. Jr. High Book 1.
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ARTistic Pursuits, Junior High Book Two, Color and Composition
By Brenda Ellis; Daniel D. Ellis, ed.
Allow your students' artistic sides flourish with Artistic Pursuits! Requiring no expertise or experience, students will benefit from a complete overview of the artistic process from concept to creation. Focusing on composition, units include Building a Visual Vocabulary; Art Appreciation & History; Techniques; and Application. Each contains four lessons, a project, and included fine art prints, allowing students to view and study the great works in depth. Assignments help develop artistic perspectives through observation, composition, and real, applicable art projects. Artistic Pursuits Jr. High books are designed to involve the student in the creative process while developing strong observational skills. Book 2 focuses on color theory and its various uses with dry media, including pastels and oil pastels. Using world art as examples, units contain information not only on color, but also the culture, ideas and/or artist that created them; afterwards students apply their techniques through practice and a final project. Hue, intensity, neutrals, warm/cool, balance, depth, viewpoints, and more are covered. 88 pages; comb-binding with plastic protector cover. Pages are not reproducible. Jr. High Book 2.
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ARTistic Pursuits, Senior High Book One, The Elements of Art and Composition
By Brenda Ellis; Daniel D. Ellis, ed.
Allow your students' artistic sides flourish with Artistic Pursuits! Requiring no experience, students will benefit from a complete artistic overview. Focusing on composition, units include Building a Visual Vocabulary; Art Appreciation & History; Techniques; and Application, each with four lessons and a project. Fine art prints are included, allowing students to view and study the great works in depth. Assignments help develop artistic perspectives through observation, composition, and real, applicable art projects. Designed to involve the student in the creative process while developing observational skills, Book 1 is intended to give students greater experience with the elements of art, along with chances for personal expression and creativity. The emphasis is on European art; 16 fine art reproductions are included. Pages are not reproducible. This second edition features expanded art history lessons with more European history and new information on drawing. 88 pages, softcover with plastic protector cover and comb binding. Senior High Book 1.
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ARTistic Pursuits, Senior High Book Two, Color and Composition
By Brenda Ellis; Daniel D. Ellis, ed.
Allow your students' artistic sides flourish with Artistic Pursuits! Requiring no experience, students will benefit from a complete artistic overview. Focusing on composition, units include Building a Visual Vocabulary; Art Appreciation & History; Techniques; and Application. Each contains four lessons, a project, and included fine art prints, allowing students to view and study the great works in depth. Assignments help develop artistic perspectives through observation, composition, and real, applicable art projects. Designed to involve the student in the creative process while developing observational skills, Book 2 is intended to give students greater experience with the elements of art, along with chances for personal expression and creativity. The emphasis is on color, with chapters explaining color theory, mixing, the rules of color, and discovering how color has been used in art throughout the years. More European art history is included; 16 units with fine art reproductions. Pages are not reproducible. This second edition features expanded art appreciation lessons with more European art history. 88 pages, softcover with plastic protector cover and comb binding. Senior High Book 28.
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