A home for their hearts Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 My dd13 told me she wanted to learn about Artists and the work, she would also like to learn more art skills. She's a self-taught drawer and does well drawing Magna. She wants something to help her progress in her skills. Is there a curriculum that would combine both? If not suggestions for both areas would be greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 No advice on drawing. but for Art Appreciation, we enjoyed Sister Wendy's Story of Painting and The Annotated Mona Lisa Khan Academy has many short videos about specific works of Art: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Have you looked at Artistic Pursuits? It goes through high school and teaches appreciation/history combined with the art skills each studied artist employed in their work. There's a link in my sig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarynB Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 For appreciation, there's also Smart Art: Learning to Classify and Critique Art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 For appreciation, there's also Smart Art: Learning to Classify and Critique Art. We really enjoyed this book this year. For next year, I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Art in Focus. You will see that you can get it cheap if you can be content with the previous edition. Even the Teacher Edition is cheap. Glencoe is the publisher and Angelicum Academy uses this text for the middle grades. I agree that the Annotated Mona Lisa is also very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintinative Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 I like Artistic Pursuits but my kids are younger. Have you seen this (below)? I have liked it for the art appreciation piece. It was free when I downloaded it. I used the code from here: http://moneysavingmom.com/2012/11/free-adventures-in-art-ecurriculum-75-value.html http://www.cornerstonecurriculum.com/Curriculum/Art/art.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintinative Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Also check out some of the free sample pages from here: http://harmonyfinearts.org/sample-pages/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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