by Julie | Art, Art Education, Homeschool, Podcast
As summer is approaching and you’re planning your vacations, we hope you’ll include a visit to a few art museums! Join us today as we discuss the benefits of visiting museums with your kids and how to prepare for a really fun trip to the museum! Listen on...
by Julie | Art, Art Education, Classical Conversations, Homeschool, Podcast
Episodes #23-27 were about how to use the Classical Model to teach art. We’re summarizing them for you in this ‘best-of’ episode as a great refresher if you listened to those episodes last summer. Or, if you didn’t get to listen to them then,...
by Julie | Art, Art Education, Homeschool, Podcast
We’re back with Season 2 of the Anyone Can Teach Art podcast and we’re starting with the big question: “WHY should we include art in education?” There are so many reasons why art is part of education. Deanna and Julie chat about its effect on...
by Julie | Art, Art Education, Homeschool, Podcast
One of the most common struggles we all seem to have in teaching art, is making time for art. Join Deanna and Julie and they discuss HOW to make time for both Art Appreciation AND Art Creation for both your children and yourself. Listen on iTunes | Listen on...
by Julie | Art, Art Education, Classical Conversations, Homeschool
Between Columbus, the Mayflower and the Boston Tea Party, I feel like Classical Conversations’ Cycle three, which includes American History, is a great time to draw an old ship! Plus, I really love the old ships. As an aside, there’s a great little...
by Julie | Art, Art Education, Classical Conversations, Homeschool, Inspiration
Thank you all for all your encouragement and support over the last few months! You guys are so kind and I just love hearing and seeing all the art projects you’re doing in your classrooms. We’re winding down our homeschool year and I’ve been focused...
by Julie | Art, Art Education, Classical Conversations, Inspiration
Allow me to convince you that mindful tracing is a great tool to use in an art class. Tracing has so many benefits. You probably have used it in your own life and encouraged your children to use it also. After all, this is how most children learn to write their...
by Julie | Art, Inspiration
As soon as someone tries to tell me they “just aren’t creative” I want to leap into inquisitor mode and discover in what ways they are, in fact, creative! I firmly believe that we are each created to be creative. It’s in there- in YOU- from birth. You, yes YOU, are...
