“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Slowing down
At the beginning of this series of posts on fine arts, I explained why I’m spending one day each week focusing on arts (and natures study). I wrote that I’m teaching fine arts (and nature studies) “to provide true and good and beautiful things upon which my children can feast.” That is absolutely still true. […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Crisp Fall Day
We’re spending the day at the Dallas Arboretum looking at their houses o’ gourds. We also may do this great fall mixed-media art project from That Artist Woman. I’ve saved my egg shells and everything. It’s a new month so new songs. Our folk song is an Irish tune called “The Rose of Tralee.” […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Can’t stop laughing
A new month brings us new songs (and a new picture). We’re still studying Copley. We’re looking at “The Death of the Earl of Chatham” which depicts the collapse of William Pitt the Elder during a debate in the House of Lords on the American Revolution. How weird must that have been for the American […]
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Fine Arts Friday: briefly
We’re traveling today, so I don’t have time to write a longer post. We’ll be spending our nature hour at Dinosaur Valley State Park. Actually, we’ll be spending most of the weekend in the soggy outdoors. Yay, rain! A bonus, art thing: How to recognize the artists of paintings. Not for littler people because of language […]
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Fine Arts Friday: A man born out of order
Following the Ambleside schedule, this terms artist is John Singleton Copley. As I’ve written before, the basics of picture study are pretty simple. We don’t focus a great deal on the biography and facts of the artist, but we don’t ignore it either. I think Copley’s story is of particular interest to homeschoolers and Americans […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Random
Mid-July isn’t the best time for thinking. Frankly it’s too dang hot to engage any muscle, including the brain. But you can listen to music and look at pretty paintings without much effort, so today’s fine arts post is a bit of random beauty. We haven’t faithfully followed the Ambleside schedule for folk songs, so […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Phoning it in
Our latest (and last on the schedule) Pieter de Hooch: ‘At the Linen Closet” There’s an amazing amount of detail in de Hooch’s paintings, and it’s fun to open the bigger By improving the quality of erection, the medicine helps free cialis men being normal in the bed. Once the evidence of erectile dysfunction was […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Exhausted
This past week has been camp week. MTG has taken the girls to Girl Scout Twilight Camp*, and I’ve taken the boys to Cub Scout Twilight Camp. I’m so tired it hurts. The main reason we study fine arts is to give our children a repository of beauty from which to draw. So today, I’m […]
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Messy journey
One of my favorite painters is Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of artists. He painted these magnificent landscapes of America at a time when we were just beginning to lose vast swaths of our wilderness. One of his most intriguing works is a four-painting series entitled “The Voyage of Life.” When I […]
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Fine Arts Friday: How do you pronounce that?
Last week, we started looking at a new artist, Pieter de Hooch (or Hoogh). He’s also a Dutch painter from the 17th century like the previous artist, Jacob Van Ruisdael (or Ruysdael). Dutch pronunciations are . . .fun, so I found a video that demonstrates the proper form. The narrator pronounces his name at 0:53 […]
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