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Craft Projects

12 Sep

We're moving on to Brush Drawing Plate 2 from May Mallum's book, Brush Drawing as Applied to Natural Forms and Common Objects. This is our Charlotte Mason Brush Drawing series and is our next step in our work towards watercolor painting. In our last lesson (Plate 1), we reviewed brush work and brush control by painting straight lines and patterns. This lesson introduces us to curved lines and designs. Although we typically try to follow the instructions as closely as possible, we did not set up a sloping table. We still managed just fine, so my advice is...

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05 Sep

Today’s homeschool handicraft project is a clay model of an oyster shell. We will be making model #44 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin as part of our clay modelling series. We are not in a situation where we can go oyster hunting, so we stopped at the seafood section of our grocery store and bought a lone oyster. It was live and firmly shut, so we steamed it, just like we did our mussels, to encourage it to open. It opened slowly, so we were then able to break it apart and remove the meat...

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29 Aug

One of our most exciting moments in homeschooling is starting a new handicraft series. Yes, that's how much we love handicrafts! I know many homeschool moms are not big fans of arts and crafts, but we're weird that way. In our world, handicrafts are a great source of joy, peace, and pleasure. We've recently been covering Brush Work, where we worked at developing the skills of creating brush forms to paint natural forms and objects. Brush work was intended to be a foundation for Brush Drawing, with the ultimate goal of learning the skill of watercolor painting. ...

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15 Aug

Today’s homeschool handicraft project is a clay model of a pin tray. This is model #43 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin. A pin tray from the early 1900s was a small decorative dish or tray used to hold straight pins, sewing pins, hat pins, hair pins, or other small pins. They were typically very small - only a few inches across - often decorative and ornamental, but also practical. Materials Needed The book, A Manual of Clay Modelling by Hermione Unwin (or free online HERE) Modeling Clay (the book suggests red terra cotta clay) Clay modeling tools (this kit includes many tools, along...

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08 Aug

Today, as part of our clay modelling series, we are going to make a clay model of a child's shoe. This is model #42 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin. This book was originally published in 1912, so I imagine that a child's shoe would probably look quite different now-a-days. Since we did not have any children's shoes around our house (our kids are in high school now), we took a trip to our local resale store and found a pair of shoes similar to the shoe shown in the book. It is a...

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25 Jul

This is it, guys! The end of our Brushwork Series, and the end of our lessons from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson. Brushwork Lesson #30, A Design of Primroses, is the final activity in the book. It brings together all of the skills we have learned since the beginning of our brushwork series. We (or at least, I) started out nervous and clueless but determined to learn a skill that I had been wanting to know my entire life. Slowly, but surely, lesson by lesson, we learned different techniques, we grew in confidence, and we...

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