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Craft Projects

26 Jul

Every week, in preparation for our clay modelling session, we check our book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Unwin, to see what we will be modelling. We then go on a hunt for the object. Sometimes it's in our backyard, or pantry, and sometimes we prowl the neighborhood, parks, or grocery stores looking for the item. This week we had to go on the hunt. A simple poplar leaf was all we needed for model #17. I assumed I could drive past our local nature preserve and grab one - but no. There was no...

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19 Jul

Although we are still in the beginning phase of our brushwork series, we are loving it! It's exciting to learn how just the smallest tweak of the brush, or just a little pressure can change everything that you are creating! I'm even more excited to experience where this is going to lead us, as we practice more and more. Today we are doing brushwork, lesson #4 from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson. This book gently walks the student through a series of 30 lessons, with the goal of training oneself in the beginnings of...

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12 Jul

Today, we will be making a clay model of a chestnut. The chestnut is the 16th model from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Unwin. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a chestnut?! I know they can be found in abundance around Christmas time - for all of those who want to roast them on an open fire - but it's a very different story in the middle of summer! This has become our biggest challenge related to clay modelling - finding the object for the lesson! The skill we began learning in...

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05 Jul

Have you been following us in our brushwork series? If you are a homeschooling family who follows the Charlotte Mason method, this is for you! There are so many benefits to learning brushwork - and we're just getting started! We are working through the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson, a series of 30 lessons, teaching the basics of brushwork. Today we will be doing brushwork lesson #3, which teaches oblique brush forms. Materials Needed The book, Brushwork, Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson (also available online HERE) 1″ absorbent grid paper Watercolor paints Watercolor Paintbrush, we used Princeton Velvetouch round size 6 or round size 8 A glass...

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28 Jun

We are continuing our trek through the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Unwin. Today we are making model #15, a clay model of a broad bean. This model was very similar to model #7, a model of a pea pod. In fact, model #15 had no instructions of its own; it simply referred to model #7 for instructions. What is a Broad Bean? Our challenge with this model was not the clay modelling portion, since it was a little repetitive. Our challenge was finding the object itself! First of all, I had no idea what a...

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21 Jun

I've been so excited to start this new handicraft! Brushwork is our precursor to watercolor painting. In this handicraft, we are going to learn the basics of watercolor - how to handle and control a brush, how to load a paintbrush, and how to maneuver a brush on paper. Having covered all of the basics in A Beginner's Guide to Brushwork in a Charlotte Mason Education, we will be moving on to brushwork lesson #2, which involves making a pattern with brush forms. Materials Needed The book, Brushwork, Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson (also available online HERE) 1" absorbent grid...

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