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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,...

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...

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...

Today we are continuing our progress through the book A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Unwin. We've made it to the 5th model, where we will be making a clay model of a piece of broken stone. We grabbed our broken stone from the side of the street. As it's supposed to be, this model was definitely the most challenging to date. It introduced a couple of new skills; instead of assembling our clay shape and putting it onto the armature, this time we were directed to build up around the armature. We also began working with varied shapes, instead of...

Many years ago, when we first we started homeschooling, I had decided to commit to the Charlotte Mason method of education. However, as a beginner, I found the many aspects of this philosophy overwhelming and intimidating. Despite this, along with my two children, we plunged into the subjects that I deemed most important, pursuing progress over perfection. One item that fell to the bottom of my list was handicrafts. Although I really loved handicrafts, I did not see the educational value in them, and I convinced myself that we did not have time for them. With all of the...

It's about time! Today we will be finishing our needle-felted fox that we have been working on in our last couple of posts. In the beginning of our initial needle felting series, we found that our projects worked up quite quickly. As the complexity increased, however, so did the time required. It's not a bad thing - we've enjoyed the process, and we've learned a lot along the way. While making our fox, we learned how to apply short and long fur, even a bushy tail. We got more practice making multi-colored ears and...