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Our family loves art and drawing. If yours is like ours, you may enjoy some of these resource. Some of these resources could be use as a full homeschool drawing curriculum; others would work well as supplements. Most of the resources are specifically for drawing, but the last two links incorporate other media as well.
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook
. Jaden used this a couple years ago with great success, and Jerah started the curriculum this year.
- Mark Kistler's Draw Squad
. Joely's using this for part of her art curriculum this year.
- FREE! DrawSpace. This absolutely incredible website has drawing lessons divided into three categories based on level of skill. You will definitely want to bookmark this site!
- FREE! How to Draw Folds. This is a very interesting tutorial for the advanced student. There aren't step-by-step directions, per se, but the information is very good.
- FREE! Drawing Humans. This visual tutorial helps explain how to draw in proportion, muscles, and the face. It also covers drawing the female chest, so I'd suggest previewing it before passing it along to your children.
- FREE! Donna Young's drawing lessons: These lessons work on a child's ability to draw exactly what they see. Each day the child copies a small, simple drawing three times, trying to pay attention to spacing, shapes, etc, making their drawing as close to the original as possible. The lessons progress from easy to more difficult so it would be appropriate for even younger kids.
- FREE! Drawing Human Movement
- FREE! Drawing Hands
- FREE! Drawing Feet
- FREE! How to Age Characters
- FREE! Animal Anatomy
- FREE! Drawing the Horse
- FREE! Drawing Birds: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- FREE! Drawing Cats: Big Cats, Little Cats, Cat Breeds, Colors & Patterns
- FREE! Asian Dragons
- FREE! How to Draw & Paint. This is an entire website devoted to tutorials that are quite well done.
- FREE! Watercolor Video Tutorials by Bob Davies. These are very well done.
Do you have any other art or drawing resources you could add to the list?
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Thank you for sharing the resources. I love the online homeschooling community! How did people homeschool before the Internet?
Lately, my only art resource has been two very talented young ladies that have agreed to teach lessons to a group of kids at my house. What a blessing! Art is one of those subjects I have no natural ability to teach. I'm always looking for some resources that can help my kids overcome my general lack of talent!
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It is a little more advanced than the ones you listed, but Kimon Nicolaides' "Drawing the Natural Way" is generally acknowledged as the standard, as it is a comeplete drawing curriculum with a schedule of excerices to be completed over a series of months.
( http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Way-Draw-Working-Study/dp/0395530075 )
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Have you ever looked into Artistic Pursuits? I found their books a few years back through The Old Schoolhouse. I have used their books for all 3 of my children. I like how they explain the different techniques, show examples and then have the student recreate. My younger 2 recently created their own bas reliefs from clay. They are not fancy (plastic binding), run about $40 or so. I am going to check into the resources you listed as well. Love your site, btw!
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Joy Reply:
February 8th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
@Lynn, Yes, we actually used Artistic Pursuits for a while. My youngest liked it, but my older too didn't like how the lessons were presented. We've since been using a variety of the resources I listed in the post.
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