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Here are all our art appreciation lessons, art activities and downloads.

We follow a Charlotte Mason art appreciation approach ~

“Children should learn pictures, line by line, group by group, reading, not books, but pictures themselves … After a short story of the artist’s life … the pictures are studied one at a time. Children learn not merely to see a picture but to look at it, taking in every detail.”

Famous Artists

Featuring ~Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael Sanzio da Urbino, Sandro Botticelli, Anthony van Dyck, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Peter Paul Rubens, Salvador Dali, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock

• Famous Artists Wall Chart 2017  ~ includes a selection of my favourite famous artists,  each with a brief biography and a gallery of 3 of their most famous artworks.   This is a wonderful way to display the “Artist of the Month”  in your homeschool.
• Famous Artist Biography page  A biography notebook page with a map for art appreciation lessons.
• Biography Famous Artists Red_Blue for primary schoolers
• Biography Famous Artists Black Lines with Map 
• Famous Artists Lapbook  ~ This lapbook includes 18 of the most famous artists. featuring their masterpieces and a blank minibook.  Your child can pick and choose how you wish to use each page.  I have included an organized lapbook planner, complete with website links and extra application ideas.

Famous Impressionist Artists

Featuring ~ Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Mary Cassatt, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Bertha Morisot

• Famous Impressionist Wall Chart 2017  ~ includes a selection of my favourite famous Impressionist artists,  each with a brief biography and a gallery of 3 of their most famous artworks.   This is a wonderful way to display the “Artist of the Month”  in your homeschool.

• Famous Impressionist Artist Lapbook
  For a lapbook or notebook & minibook combination, this versatile 18 page PDF package includes thumbnails of masterpieces, suggested activities, blank minibook templates and an organized lapbook planner for any option using minibooks. This download will offer enough material for the dedicated study of each artist and their works. 
• Blank Biography Famous Impressionist Artists ~ Our 13 featured artists on a blank page. Ideal for minibook combo!
• Primary Biography Famous Impressionist Artists ~ The 13 artists with red & blue & dotted grey lines in wider spaces for beginner writers
• Black line Biography Famous Impressionist Artists ~ As above with neat black and dotted grey lines for more mature writers.

Art Era Timeline Page

The Art Era Timeline is a very comprehensive overview, with dates, eras, famous artists of each movement and a thumbnail example of their most eminent works. Different eras are on separate pages.

Due to the size of the Art Era Timeline file, I have divided the file into 4 downloads:

• Art Era Timeline 1 Pre-Renaissance-18thC ~9-page download
• Art Era Timeline 2 19thC – Late 19thC ~ 14-page download
• Art Era Timeline 3 Early 20th C – Modern ~11-page download
• Art Era 4 Timeline Modern ~ A large file – 18 pages
• Simple Famous Artist Timeline ~ perfect for middle schoolers
• Art and Music Timeline ~ a parallel view of Music and Art Eras combined in a simpler timeline:

How to use the timeline:

• Print out and bind as is, or add to a Book of Centuries
• Cut and paste the pages side-by-side/ under each other as an art timeline. (It’ll be huge!)
• Add artwork thumbnails to a timeline on a wall.
• Cut the artworks and paste them on cards and let children match the artists to the eras.

Art Appreciation Lessons

(Click on the links below the images for the post with all the links, free download and lesson ideas.)

Famous Artists

Paul Klee

Here is your free download ~ Paul Klee bio & gallery & art lessons

• “Word Art” with free grid download

• Paul Klee Landscapes

Gustav Klimt

• Tree of Life

• Klimt’s “Kiss”

• More Klimt Art

Leonardo da Vinci

• Leonardo Pastel Portraits with free sketch outline

• Leonardo’s Baby Sketches with sketch downloads.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

• Bruegel’s Wedding Feast with an outline drawing

Pablo Picasso

• Picasso Guitars

• Picasso Profiles

• Picasso Inspired Collages

• Picasso’s Portraits

Henri Matisse

• Matisse’s Goldfish

• Matisse “Red Studio” Inspiration

• Matisse Paper Cut Outs

Jackson Pollock

• Pollock Paintings

Georgia O’Keeffe

• Cow Skull and Roses
• Georgia O’Keeffe paintings with her famous quotes with biography page
• Free download ~ Georgia O’Keeffe quotes and gallery
• Georgia O’Keeffe Quotes

• Zoom in Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers

Albert Bierstadt in pastels

• The Golden Gate

• Giant Redwoods of California

John Singer Sargent

• Rosina

• “A Gust of Wind”

William Adolphe Bouguereau

• Wonderful Works of William Adolphe Bouguereau with biography and gallery of his works

Mondrian

• Mondrian Inspiration

Johan Vermeer

• Vermeer Painting Made 3D

Impressionists

Tracing Outlines of Famous Art Works

Vincent Van Gogh

• Finding Perspective in Van Gogh’s “Bedroom in Auwers”

• Van Gogh “Starry Night” ~ Art Appreciation

• Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

• Van Gogh’s Irises

George Seurat

• Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island” Art Appreciation

• 3D Model of Seurat’s “Bathers at Asnieres”

Visit Notebooking Fairy for some free notebooking pages Pointillism on Seurat

Paul Cezanne

• Appreciating Cezanne’s Cubist Landscapes

• Cezanne Fruit Still Life

Claude Monet

• Painting our Monet Inspired Houses of Parliament

• Our Monet inspired “Water Lily Pond” Paintings

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

• Henri Toulouse-Lautrec Posters ~ Appreciation Lesson Ideas

Camille Pissarro

• Pissarro with chalk pastels

Mary Cassatt

• Art Appreciation ~ Mary Cassatt

Paul Gauguin

• Gauguin’s Loulou

Paul Signac

• Going dotty over Signac

• An Easy Signac “Lighthouse of Portrieux” Art Lesson

Alfred Sisley

• Alfred Sisley in Perspective

Berthe Morisot

• Impressed with Berthe Morisot’s “The Butterfly Catchers”*

• Berthe’s Woman Sewing in Her Garden

• Collage of Berthe’s The Cradle

Edouard Vuillard

• Appreciating Vuillard’s Patterns

• Mending a Stocking – Another Vuillard Art Appreciation Lesson

Contemporary Artists

Julia Anastasopoulos ~ South African illustrator, designer and artist.  You can find her art under her name Knolc on Behance.

• Whimsical Murals

Alisa Burke is an awesome contemporary artist!  She shares her art,  sketchbook pages, ideas, tutorials and inspiration on her blog alisaburke.blogspot.com.

• Alisa Burke Art Inspiration

• Bouquet Three Ways

Street Art Appreciation Lesson – Banksy and Stik inspired street art

Jane Davenport and our “Beautiful Faces Tutorial” inspired art experience ~

Loretta Grayson’s at her blog Shoebox of Photographs and the blog post of our tutorial experiences.

Pop over to see her free tutorial and read our Loretta Grayson Inspired Art Lesson

Marjolein Bastin

Marjolein Bastin is a Dutch-noted nature artist, writer, children’s author and illustrator.

Other Art Lessons

“365 Things to Draw and Paint”  Usborne Activities by Fiona Watt (ISBN 978-1-86806-319-2)

This book revived my 10-year-old’s love for art!  All the lessons are simple, non-threatening and FUN!  Read our posts ~

• New Art Fun!
• More Art Fun!

“Drawing with Children” by Mona Brookes

Read my blog post ~ Warm-Ups Works!

Download a free pdf. version of her chart ~ The 5 basic elements of shape Starting a Still Life

South African Artist

Jacob Hendrick Pierneef

Art Appreciation – using a grid to enlarge a Pierneef painting

I hope these art lessons inspire you to give art a try in your homeschool!  🙂

I’d love to hear from you ~  if you have enjoyed a download, need advice or just wish to contact me, please feel free to write.  I will respond to your private email via the contact form on my About Me page.  🙂

Blessings, Nadene

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