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09 Aug

We are back today to make a clay model of a carrot. Let's get a big cheer for the fact that we didn't have to substitute or spend an entire day hunting all over town for our model! This one was sitting in our kitchen pantry, just waiting to be used. The carrot is model #18 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Unwin. This model brought together the last several lessons, providing valuable practice in creating forms, modelling the form, and adding detail to that form. Materials Needed The book, A Manual of Clay Modelling by Hermione Unwin (or free...

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02 Aug

So far, our brushwork series has moved at a comfortable pace, allowing us to practice and improve our brush strokes. Today we are doing brushwork, lesson #5 from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson. This lesson has us doing all of the previous brush forms in a decorative pattern. Once again, like in lesson #4, and I'm going to assume in many of the upcoming lessons, the grid paper used in the book seems to be about 1/2″ squares. Our grid paper is 1″ square grid paper, and probably a different size overall. Therefore, unfortunately,...

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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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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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