Between the HomeschoolBlogger updates, the holidays and technical difficulties on my end, I've had a difficult time logging in and staying logged in. Hence it has been a month since I've been able to post. Everything but the technical difficulties on my end seem to have alleviated themselves, but my computer problems mostly just make things take much longer than they should.
So I should be back to providing items of interest to homeschoolers in Nebraska. If you know of any events in your area, please feel free to email me so I can get them posted. I get a lot of information from what is going on here in the Metro area, but really would like this blog to be helpful to those living in other areas, as well.
We are coming to your area for the convention the end of March. We would love to schedule support group workshops for children....children get art appreciation, techniques and vocabulary of the arts and art is used to support core subjects in each workshop....the organizer gets her own children in free. We just need a facility and someone to get the word out.....this is a real blessing and encouragement to your children. Contact us at sjeffus@visualmanna.com or call at 1-888-2757309!!!!! Schedule one today!!!!!! Are newest, Art Adventures in Narnia is our most popular. Ask us for a description! Cost is $23 for the whole day...all supplies included....or $12..50 for a half day.
We believe that art should be taught with art appreciation, techniques and vocabulary with each lesson. We believe each art lesson should also support a core subject making learning fun for visual and kinesthetic learners.
Visual Manna has wonderful art workshops for support groups. We have a complete snail mail packet to send if you are interested. This packet has more information on each workshop as well as tips and suggestions on how to get started and how to make it less work for the organizer. You can also get this information on our website <visualmanna.com>. Not only does the organizer get her own children in free, but can add an extra dollar charge on the already low priced lessons for her hard work in organizing.
It is our belief that each art lesson should include the vocabulary of the arts, art appreciation, techniques, and then some way to relate it to the core subjects. Here are some sample workshops. Our most popular right now is Art Adventures in Narnia! Contact us for a description.
Workshops for Younger Students
Our newest workshop for little ones is built around ancient kingdoms, castles, lions, etc.... Chronicles of Narnia Workshop Students ages 4-8 Lesson one is making a lion on a shield with a sandpaper tongue. We will learn hot and cool colors and texture. We will then make the castle at Cair Paravel and put talking animals and trees around the castle. We will make a room with an open wardrobe going into an ancient land. We will make a forest and will also make a talking tree with the door coming open at the bottom of the tree. Finally, we will sculpt characters out of clay. Cost is $12.00 for the first child in the family and $10.00 for each additional child.
Basic Art Seminar
We look at master works of art and do five complete art lessons using oil pastels, markers, dauber paints, scissors, glue, etc. Students learn the basics of color theory, drawing using geometric shapes, foreground and background, and how to portray expressions.
Dinosaurs
Were there dinosaurs on the ark? Are any dinosaurs alive today? What can we learn from the coelacanth? We explore these questions and more while doing hands-on projects of Noah's Ark, insects in amber, and a printing project of the coelacanth. Finally, we learn how to draw and sculpt dinosaurs. Students will gain an understanding of color theory, formal balance, composition, and basic drawing. This workshop is taught from a creation science perspective.
American History Through Art
We start by making a log cabin landscape while looking at pictures by Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt. Next we look at John James Audubons paintings and learn to draw a bird. After looking at portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Charles Peale, students will create their own portrait of George Washington on black paper using cotton balls, doilies and oil pastels. Next, students hear the story of the Teddy Bear, and make a teddy bear picture. Finally, we talk about Native American clay pottery and make a pinchpot.
All About Animals
This workshop explores different animals in their natural environments, such as a jungle panther, a desert cobra, an arctic penguin, and creatures of the sea. Students will learn the technique of drawing using geometric shapes, the basics of color theory, the use of composition, and the meaning of positive and negative space in art.
Learning about Your State
This workshop begins with students creating a travel poster about their state. We will discuss the work of Audobon, the great bird artist, and learn to draw and sculpt the state bird. We also make a picture of the state flower or tree and complete additional projects that relate directly to your particular state. Students will learn the fundamentals of drawing, color, and dimension.
Workshops for Older Students
Our newest workshops for older students is Ages 9-adult Lesson one is using shading, shadow and texture training to make a lion head in pencil and willow charcoal. We will also do a lion's body with colors and flowers in the foreground and winter in the background. Lesson two is making a lions head out of clay. Lesson three is learning perspective to make a room with a wardrobe in the center and making an ancient stone castle and knight in full armor, talking about the armor of God. We will build a three dimensional throne for a certain king or queen. We will also do the beavers and the beavers house and trees. Cost of the workshop is $25.00 for the first child in a family and $20.00 for each additional child. All supplies are included.
* Basic Art Seminar I
* Basic Art Seminar II
* Basic Color Seminar
* Lewis and Clark
* Science through Art
* Ancient History through Art
* American History through Art I
* American History through Art II
* Renaissance History through Art
* Ocean Art
* Geography through Art
* Horses and Western Art
* Drawing, Painting and Sculpting Dolphins, Dinosaurs and Horses
Basic Art Seminar I
In this basic art workshop we start with drawing and sketching. We teach outline, shading, shadow, texture, scale, center of interest, perspective, props, and setting with a complete project combining all these elements. Students learn how to draw a face and do a portrait. Next we teach one and two point perspective. After our lunch break, we show students how to reproduce a picture. We do this by demonstrating techniques such as the use of basic shapes, proportions and informal and formal grids. We explain how to make a picture using colored art chalk pastels and detailing with charcoal pencils. We also show students how o use oil pastels. Students then use all of their newly acquired skills to create their own compositions. They will produce two complete original compositions. Finally, the students experiment with a sculpting medium and make a sculpture.
Basic Art Seminar II
This workshop covers one, two and three point perspective, drawing landscapes, still life, drawing cloth, cartooning and graphic design. We use drawing pencils, charcoal pencils and drawing pens. This workshop is for advanced art students only. Students must have completed the Basic Art Seminar I prior to attending this workshop.
Basic Color Seminar
This workshop begins with the basics of shading, shadow, and texture. The student first draws a picture in black and white. This is followed by a short lecture on color theory and the color wheel. The students then do a monochromatic picture. We demonstrate how to use light and darkness to define objects. Using complementary colors, students draw a still life of fruit. Next, students take a picture of their choice and make it into a color wheel using oil pastels. After our lunch break, we begin painting on canvas. First a presentation is given on how to get a picture onto the canvas. After their canvas painting is completed, students are given a water color demonstration and then have the opportunity to produce their own watercolor. We use tube watercolors on high quality paper.
Lewis and Clark
We begin this workshop learning about portrait art and drawing the face. Students will do a portrait of Lewis or Clark. Handouts are given on both. Next, we explore cartography history and the mapping of the Louisiana purchase. Students will show the purchase by making a map on parchment. Students will also work with one and two point perspective to aid in their understanding of form. These traditional drawing techniques will enhance their efforts to draw both the Lewis and Clark air gun and the Jefferson White House. A historical review of Jefferson's decision to make the purchase will be discussed during this session. Further discussion will center around what kind of animal life was encountered on the expedition. An array of wildlife including bear, deer, beaver and squirrel will be drawn while working with shading, shadow, and texture. We will look at a study of American wilderness landscape which will include a review of literature by Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt. The element of space will be reviewed and students will be shown how to include atmospheric perspective in their drawings. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of various Native American tribes and their lifestyles. Students will make actual clay pots and learn about these early utilitarian vessels that were both functional and aesthetic.
Science through Art
We begin with a lesson on astronomy and we do a solar system picture, learning how to shade and color the planets on black paper. We talk about zoology and make a metamorphosis picture of a caterpillar to a butterfly, or a tadpole to a frog. Students draw a bear in his natural habitat in one dimension, and then sculpt it in three dimensions. After a discussion on the science of botany, students draw plants and flowers. Finally, we learn about flight, and design and build a flying machine
Ancient History through Art
This workshop begins with a lesson about shading, shadow, texture, perspective, props, etc., during which students create an animal of their own design. The next lesson explores Noahs ark and the color wheel. Students learn how to draw the ark in one point perspective, and bleding colors in a rainbow. This is followed by cave paintings on sandpaper. Making a clay tablet, we discuss the invention of writing. We then make a heavy bronze foil two dimensional art form as we discuss the Bronze Age. We then talk about Egyptian orthostats, and make a necklace. After the lunch break, we learn about ancient Greek pottery, and paint on a curved surface. Students also make a mosaic or fresco. Finally, we learn to draw Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns and end the workshop drawing the Parthenon in two point perspective
American History through Art I
We begin this workshop by looking at the works of great early American portrait artists, and then draw a structured portrait of George Washington on black paper using colored chalks and charcoal pencils. We look at pictures of John James Audubons work and draw a bird picture using oil pastels. After looking at pictures by Frederick Remington and Charles M. Russell, students do a process drawing of a horse head using pencils and 12 x 18 white paper. After the lunch break, students create an elaborate stick weaving, work with clay, learn pottery techniques, and make a sand painting. We conclude with a discussion about Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. Students produce a cityscape in one point perspective.
American History through Art II
In this workshop we do miniature portraits while talking about the portraits drawn by Charles Peale for his troops during the Revolutionary War. We do a landscape on canvas while looking at the landscapes of Thomas Moran and Albert Bierdstat. We make a process drawing of a horse using colored chalk on black paper, after examining the works of Frederick Remington and Charles M. Russell. We sculpt a horse using pottery clay or Sculpeyฎ. Students learn about Thomas Nast, the inventor of the democratic donkey and republican elephant, and create their own comic strip. We end the day doing a picture of Mt. Rushmore while learning about portrait art.
Renaissance History through Art
This workshop begins with a lesson on illuminated texts. Students create an illuminated text using gold and silver paint pens, gel pens and colored pencils. We continue with a heraldry lesson and design a crest for a shield, draw a Byzantine cross, and make a triptych. We use a clay mold to make an original medallion. After lunch, we paint the medallion. Students learn about the great frescos of the Renaissance artists and then paint their own. Students also draw a room similar to the one in Leonardo DaVincis The Last Supper, and learn about the discovery of perspective. We end the session with a discussion about William Shakespeare.
Ocean Art
This workshop introduces students to some of the master artists who paint scenes under the ocean, such as David Miller and Robert Lyn Nelson. It also includes seascapes by Winslow Homes and Washington Alston. Students create seven projects that relate to the sea, including a crayon resist picture, and a mixed media water color picture of creatures under the sea. We explain how to draw a dolphin using shading, shadow, and texture, and how to sculpt a dolphin. Students learn to draw a variety of salt water fish, and a sea horse.
Geography through Art
In this workshop, we start by making a picture of the earth on black paper with colored chalk. We discuss Gerardus Mercator and the art of map making. Students look at old maps and then make their own map. We take a quick trip around the world doing art projects from all corners. We talk about art of the Orient and make a Chiese scroll using tube watercolors. Students learn some additional water color techniques, as well. Next, we talk about paper cutting designsfrom the Chinese, Polish and German cultures. Students create a primitive sculpture from Africa. They make a beaded necklace, too. We create a piece of Peruvian folk art called a retablo, and finish the workshop by making a piece of Mexican folk art called a papel picado.
Horses and Western Art
Students learn how to draw, paint on canvas, and sculpt horses. We look at works by Frederick Remington and Charles M. Russell, and study the history of the horse in art.
Drawing, Painting and Sculpting Dolphins, Dinosaurs and Horses
This workshop explores different mediums with students doing black and white, color and three dimensional studies of dolphins, dinosaurs and horses.
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Mar. 2, 2007 - Visual Manna art workshops
We believe that art should be taught with art appreciation, techniques and vocabulary with each lesson. We believe each art lesson should also support a core subject making learning fun for visual and kinesthetic learners.
Visual Manna has wonderful art workshops for support groups. We have a complete snail mail packet to send if you are interested. This packet has more information on each workshop as well as tips and suggestions on how to get started and how to make it less work for the organizer. You can also get this information on our website <visualmanna.com>. Not only does the organizer get her own children in free, but can add an extra dollar charge on the already low priced lessons for her hard work in organizing.
It is our belief that each art lesson should include the vocabulary of the arts, art appreciation, techniques, and then some way to relate it to the core subjects. Here are some sample workshops. Our most popular right now is Art Adventures in Narnia! Contact us for a description.
Workshops for Younger Students
Our newest workshop for little ones is built around ancient kingdoms, castles, lions, etc.... Chronicles of Narnia Workshop Students ages 4-8 Lesson one is making a lion on a shield with a sandpaper tongue. We will learn hot and cool colors and texture. We will then make the castle at Cair Paravel and put talking animals and trees around the castle. We will make a room with an open wardrobe going into an ancient land. We will make a forest and will also make a talking tree with the door coming open at the bottom of the tree. Finally, we will sculpt characters out of clay. Cost is $12.00 for the first child in the family and $10.00 for each additional child.
Basic Art Seminar
We look at master works of art and do five complete art lessons using oil pastels, markers, dauber paints, scissors, glue, etc. Students learn the basics of color theory, drawing using geometric shapes, foreground and background, and how to portray expressions.
Dinosaurs
Were there dinosaurs on the ark? Are any dinosaurs alive today? What can we learn from the coelacanth? We explore these questions and more while doing hands-on projects of Noah's Ark, insects in amber, and a printing project of the coelacanth. Finally, we learn how to draw and sculpt dinosaurs. Students will gain an understanding of color theory, formal balance, composition, and basic drawing. This workshop is taught from a creation science perspective.
American History Through Art
We start by making a log cabin landscape while looking at pictures by Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt. Next we look at John James Audubons paintings and learn to draw a bird. After looking at portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Charles Peale, students will create their own portrait of George Washington on black paper using cotton balls, doilies and oil pastels. Next, students hear the story of the Teddy Bear, and make a teddy bear picture. Finally, we talk about Native American clay pottery and make a pinchpot.
All About Animals
This workshop explores different animals in their natural environments, such as a jungle panther, a desert cobra, an arctic penguin, and creatures of the sea. Students will learn the technique of drawing using geometric shapes, the basics of color theory, the use of composition, and the meaning of positive and negative space in art.
Learning about Your State
This workshop begins with students creating a travel poster about their state. We will discuss the work of Audobon, the great bird artist, and learn to draw and sculpt the state bird. We also make a picture of the state flower or tree and complete additional projects that relate directly to your particular state. Students will learn the fundamentals of drawing, color, and dimension.
Workshops for Older Students
Our newest workshops for older students is Ages 9-adult Lesson one is using shading, shadow and texture training to make a lion head in pencil and willow charcoal. We will also do a lion's body with colors and flowers in the foreground and winter in the background. Lesson two is making a lions head out of clay. Lesson three is learning perspective to make a room with a wardrobe in the center and making an ancient stone castle and knight in full armor, talking about the armor of God. We will build a three dimensional throne for a certain king or queen. We will also do the beavers and the beavers house and trees. Cost of the workshop is $25.00 for the first child in a family and $20.00 for each additional child. All supplies are included.
* Basic Art Seminar I
* Basic Art Seminar II
* Basic Color Seminar
* Lewis and Clark
* Science through Art
* Ancient History through Art
* American History through Art I
* American History through Art II
* Renaissance History through Art
* Ocean Art
* Geography through Art
* Horses and Western Art
* Drawing, Painting and Sculpting Dolphins, Dinosaurs and Horses
Basic Art Seminar I
In this basic art workshop we start with drawing and sketching. We teach outline, shading, shadow, texture, scale, center of interest, perspective, props, and setting with a complete project combining all these elements. Students learn how to draw a face and do a portrait. Next we teach one and two point perspective. After our lunch break, we show students how to reproduce a picture. We do this by demonstrating techniques such as the use of basic shapes, proportions and informal and formal grids. We explain how to make a picture using colored art chalk pastels and detailing with charcoal pencils. We also show students how o use oil pastels. Students then use all of their newly acquired skills to create their own compositions. They will produce two complete original compositions. Finally, the students experiment with a sculpting medium and make a sculpture.
Basic Art Seminar II
This workshop covers one, two and three point perspective, drawing landscapes, still life, drawing cloth, cartooning and graphic design. We use drawing pencils, charcoal pencils and drawing pens. This workshop is for advanced art students only. Students must have completed the Basic Art Seminar I prior to attending this workshop.
Basic Color Seminar
This workshop begins with the basics of shading, shadow, and texture. The student first draws a picture in black and white. This is followed by a short lecture on color theory and the color wheel. The students then do a monochromatic picture. We demonstrate how to use light and darkness to define objects. Using complementary colors, students draw a still life of fruit. Next, students take a picture of their choice and make it into a color wheel using oil pastels. After our lunch break, we begin painting on canvas. First a presentation is given on how to get a picture onto the canvas. After their canvas painting is completed, students are given a water color demonstration and then have the opportunity to produce their own watercolor. We use tube watercolors on high quality paper.
Lewis and Clark
We begin this workshop learning about portrait art and drawing the face. Students will do a portrait of Lewis or Clark. Handouts are given on both. Next, we explore cartography history and the mapping of the Louisiana purchase. Students will show the purchase by making a map on parchment. Students will also work with one and two point perspective to aid in their understanding of form. These traditional drawing techniques will enhance their efforts to draw both the Lewis and Clark air gun and the Jefferson White House. A historical review of Jefferson's decision to make the purchase will be discussed during this session. Further discussion will center around what kind of animal life was encountered on the expedition. An array of wildlife including bear, deer, beaver and squirrel will be drawn while working with shading, shadow, and texture. We will look at a study of American wilderness landscape which will include a review of literature by Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt. The element of space will be reviewed and students will be shown how to include atmospheric perspective in their drawings. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of various Native American tribes and their lifestyles. Students will make actual clay pots and learn about these early utilitarian vessels that were both functional and aesthetic.
Science through Art
We begin with a lesson on astronomy and we do a solar system picture, learning how to shade and color the planets on black paper. We talk about zoology and make a metamorphosis picture of a caterpillar to a butterfly, or a tadpole to a frog. Students draw a bear in his natural habitat in one dimension, and then sculpt it in three dimensions. After a discussion on the science of botany, students draw plants and flowers. Finally, we learn about flight, and design and build a flying machine
Ancient History through Art
This workshop begins with a lesson about shading, shadow, texture, perspective, props, etc., during which students create an animal of their own design. The next lesson explores Noahs ark and the color wheel. Students learn how to draw the ark in one point perspective, and bleding colors in a rainbow. This is followed by cave paintings on sandpaper. Making a clay tablet, we discuss the invention of writing. We then make a heavy bronze foil two dimensional art form as we discuss the Bronze Age. We then talk about Egyptian orthostats, and make a necklace. After the lunch break, we learn about ancient Greek pottery, and paint on a curved surface. Students also make a mosaic or fresco. Finally, we learn to draw Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns and end the workshop drawing the Parthenon in two point perspective
American History through Art I
We begin this workshop by looking at the works of great early American portrait artists, and then draw a structured portrait of George Washington on black paper using colored chalks and charcoal pencils. We look at pictures of John James Audubons work and draw a bird picture using oil pastels. After looking at pictures by Frederick Remington and Charles M. Russell, students do a process drawing of a horse head using pencils and 12 x 18 white paper. After the lunch break, students create an elaborate stick weaving, work with clay, learn pottery techniques, and make a sand painting. We conclude with a discussion about Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. Students produce a cityscape in one point perspective.
American History through Art II
In this workshop we do miniature portraits while talking about the portraits drawn by Charles Peale for his troops during the Revolutionary War. We do a landscape on canvas while looking at the landscapes of Thomas Moran and Albert Bierdstat. We make a process drawing of a horse using colored chalk on black paper, after examining the works of Frederick Remington and Charles M. Russell. We sculpt a horse using pottery clay or Sculpeyฎ. Students learn about Thomas Nast, the inventor of the democratic donkey and republican elephant, and create their own comic strip. We end the day doing a picture of Mt. Rushmore while learning about portrait art.
Renaissance History through Art
This workshop begins with a lesson on illuminated texts. Students create an illuminated text using gold and silver paint pens, gel pens and colored pencils. We continue with a heraldry lesson and design a crest for a shield, draw a Byzantine cross, and make a triptych. We use a clay mold to make an original medallion. After lunch, we paint the medallion. Students learn about the great frescos of the Renaissance artists and then paint their own. Students also draw a room similar to the one in Leonardo DaVincis The Last Supper, and learn about the discovery of perspective. We end the session with a discussion about William Shakespeare.
Ocean Art
This workshop introduces students to some of the master artists who paint scenes under the ocean, such as David Miller and Robert Lyn Nelson. It also includes seascapes by Winslow Homes and Washington Alston. Students create seven projects that relate to the sea, including a crayon resist picture, and a mixed media water color picture of creatures under the sea. We explain how to draw a dolphin using shading, shadow, and texture, and how to sculpt a dolphin. Students learn to draw a variety of salt water fish, and a sea horse.
Geography through Art
In this workshop, we start by making a picture of the earth on black paper with colored chalk. We discuss Gerardus Mercator and the art of map making. Students look at old maps and then make their own map. We take a quick trip around the world doing art projects from all corners. We talk about art of the Orient and make a Chiese scroll using tube watercolors. Students learn some additional water color techniques, as well. Next, we talk about paper cutting designsfrom the Chinese, Polish and German cultures. Students create a primitive sculpture from Africa. They make a beaded necklace, too. We create a piece of Peruvian folk art called a retablo, and finish the workshop by making a piece of Mexican folk art called a papel picado.
Horses and Western Art
Students learn how to draw, paint on canvas, and sculpt horses. We look at works by Frederick Remington and Charles M. Russell, and study the history of the horse in art.
Drawing, Painting and Sculpting Dolphins, Dinosaurs and Horses
This workshop explores different mediums with students doing black and white, color and three dimensional studies of dolphins, dinosaurs and horses.