Written last week: Maeven is currently working on her first “Sketch Tuesday“…I’ve been wanting her to do this for awhile…I just haven’t sat down and had her do it.

For Sketch Tuesday, the woman who runs the site with the challenge comes up with a new challenge each week and posts it. (See link above). This week’s challenge was “Sketching something you wear in the rain.”

I’ll have to post the pictures later because something’s not working right and I cannot get the stinkin’ picture to show the right way! And I have other things to do now…

Written today: I finally am updating this post, LOL…I started writing this last Tuesday, now she’s working on another pic, but here’s from last week:

And here’s her final entry, which is from the assignment “Sketch something you wear in the rain.”
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since we had to stop maeven’s art classes (due to not being able to afford a fee increase), i’ve been concerned about continuing to provide her with art experiences, and art education. so tonite i got to googling and found a couple homeschool art curriculum possibilities. one that i’m getting more and more excited about as i explore their website.

what i’m looking for is some art history…studying specific artists and art throughout history and such…and also art experiences where she will get to create her own original works of art (vs coloring or otherwise filling in someone else’s drawings)….in a variety of mediums (painting, drawing, sculpting, etc…)

so here’s the curriculum i’m excited about.

i read through the example pages of the K-3 guides and REALLY liked what i saw!

then i read the “how we teach” page. and i found this:  Read more... (600 words, 0 images, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)