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Create three-dimensional art with cardboard, use oil pastels to create a detailed scene, and more. Exploring the World of Art, taught by Angela Beeson, provides step-by-step homeschool art lessons for kids in many different mediums for the elementary through high school student. The lessons need to be followed in order for each project, but projects can be done in whichever order the student desires. Each of the 12 projects is made up of 3 to 5 weeks of instruction at approximately 30 minutes per week. However, the time spent per week is up to the parent and student, taking into consideration how detailed the art project is and how meticulous the student is. Many of these homeschool art lessons for kids can quite easily cover an hour or more. Please feel free to make a lesson last more than a single day if it’s time-consuming. Working for 30 to 45 minutes on a step is recommended, followed by a break or starting fresh on it the next day if the student is getting burned out or has other things they need to do.

Overview

• 12 weeks, 4 days a week
• Includes an assortment of video and text-based lessons with projects
• Grades: 3–12

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; access to the Internet, computer, and printer; various art supplies listed in each unit; and a sketch pad.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan, as well as Unit 1. Start with the Day 1 assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

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Unit One:
Colored-Pencil Drawing – Animals

In this project, we will create a colored pencil drawing of an animal. Supplies needed for this project:

• Sketching pencil
• Eraser
• Sketching paper*
• Set of colored pencils*

*Most sketching paper works well with colored pencils although there is special paper designed specifically for colored pencils if you’d rather get that. Check what the package says. If it says “works well with all dry mediums,” it will work for both pencil and colored pencil.

*You can purchase a good set of colored pencils at any craft store. I don’t recommend getting a cheap brand such as Rose-Art. Crayola colored pencils are fairly high quality as are others such as Sargent Art. If you want an extremely high quality brand, you can go with Prismacolor, although it is also expensive.

Lesson One: Pencil Sketch

Supplies needed:

• Drawing pencil
• Eraser
• Drawing paper

This week’s project is a colored-pencil drawing of an animal of your choice. Today’s lesson will be the basic sketch of the animal. After you gather your supplies, you will need to choose a picture of an animal. You can look in a book or on the Internet for this. Try to find a colorful animal or one with a lot of color surrounding it. For example, you could choose a plainer animal such as an elephant, but it can still be a colorful picture if it’s an elephant in the savanna. If you are able to, print off your picture roughly the same size that you want to draw it; this way it is easier to get the correct proportions on your own drawing.

You can choose to draw this sketch with colored pencil if you wish, but colored pencil does not erase very well so I would recommend using a graphite pencil for this first line drawing. Set your photograph close to your paper and look at it a lot while you draw. The more you look at it, the more familiar you will become with the shapes and lines in it and the better your own drawing will be.

Before we start, please remember that there are no mistakes in art. This is hard to believe if a project does not turn out as you had imagined it, but it is true. Your drawing will be unique and completely your own creation.

Course Outline for Our Exploring the World of Art Lessons for Kids Homeschool Curriculum

Twelve units of Exploring the World of Art homeschool art lessons for kids provide step-by-step lessons to help homeschool students explore a variety of art mediums.