Earlier this year, Sam and I decided we wanted to learn how to become better at painting. I looked in to signing up with several good art classes in our area. But since a big part of the fun of being creative (and of homeschooling for that matter) is pursuing what is most interesting to you and your student, (not to mention the fact that neither of us wanted to commit to being somewhere at the same time every week for any great length of time), we took a fraction of the money we would have paid to an instructor and spent it on our own art supplies after finding a great teacher for free on YouTube.
Amy Pearce has got be our favorite online art teacher so far. You can also follow her on Facebook under Her Art From The Attic as well as Mr. Otter Art Studio-Free Children's Art Classes. We love her teaching style as well as being able to choose what we will learn to paint, when we feel like painting! I definitely recommend giving some of her lessons a try. You don't have to spend much at all to paint with acrylics. You can find small bottles for less than a dollar each at Hobby Lobby and they contain plenty enough paint to get you started! :)
Here are some pics of a few of the messes we've made over the past several months:
Disclaimer: In case you wanted to paint the Gerber Daisies, that tutorial was from a different instructor. Her video was very long, and a little less helpful for an active 8 year old, in my opinion. I chose to watch that one ahead of time and then just passed on the basic info to Sam when we pulled out the paints.
