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03 Oct

Today we're going to work through Plate 4 from May Mallam’s book, Brush Drawing as Applied to Natural Forms and Common Objects. This is part of our Charlotte Mason Brush Drawing series and is our next step in our work towards watercolor painting. This plate guides us in a natural progression from the filled shapes of Plate 3, to much more detailed flower and leaf shapes. Because of the detail, this lesson is time-consuming. There are four different flowers on this plate, and I would recommend dividing up your practice into one flower at a time. This will...

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26 Sep

Let's explore Plate 3 from May Mallam’s book, Brush Drawing as Applied to Natural Forms and Common Objects. This is part of our Charlotte Mason Brush Drawing series and is our next step in our work towards watercolor painting. Our first two lessons (or plates) were a review of brush work and brush control by painting straight and curved lines and patterns. In this lesson we move on to some natural filled forms, first with a simple box, then on to leaves, grass and flowers. We'll incorporate the skills from Plate 1 and Plate 2. Materials Needed The book, Brush Drawing as...

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19 Sep

Let's move on to our next homeschool handicraft project! Today, we are going to make a clay model of a canoe. This is model #45 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin and is part if our clay modelling series. No real canoe is needed for this project - we're going to make this from our memory and life experience. 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 with a sponge and wire to cut the clay) An modelling board with...

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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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