Well things have been fun and busy. Kindred Art is teaching a Advanced art program at Monforton school! Yay! It has been exciting to use some advanced lessons to challenge these students. Koi fish make one of the best pond fish to care for and make one of the best garden fish. Koi Fish originate…

The Zebra is a fantastic lesson! This lesson takes a great deal of hand eye coordination to not only draw the outline of the Zebra, but to also draw the connecting stripes in the right places! It is believed that the zebra’s stripes work like camouflage, according to the National Geographic. When zebras stand together, it…

Puppies. One of the cutest baby animals there are! We talked together about the dogs or animals we may have in our home. We read the book Big dog Little Dog. It is a pop up book! I also brought in a few toy puppies. I think that was fun for the kids to hold them…

Students looked at inspiration by Linford Donovan before creating their own version of art the Girl with Calla Lily’s. Lesson involved learning the proportions of the face. Such as the eye lids, highlight in the eye, and how the upper lip is usually darker than the lower lip. Children were able to choose the flower color and…

Today we were painting Acrylic paints on canvas. We learned a little about the owl. Barn owls mate for life. They cuddle with their mate and babies. When one mate dies, the other one becomes depressed and might even die too. Owls can’t move their eyes. They must turn their heads to see. Over 200…

Well we had some catching up to do as Christmas eve was on the same day as the lessons. So we had a Saturday painting class instead. We decided to paint Fish for some of the younger children and Butterflies for some of the older children.   All the supplies are set up!  Blue seemed…

Th stands for Thrush. There are eight types of thrushes including the native and vagrant species that have been seen in North America. This does not include other bird species such as the bluebirds, robins, fieldfare, Veery and Solitaire, who are all members of the thrush family. Generally, thrushes are slender-billed songbirds. Thrushes vary from 13 to…

The polar bear or the sea/ice bear are the world’s largest land predators.  They can be found in the Arctic, the U.S. (Alaska), Canada, Russia, Denmark (Greenland), and Norway. Polar bears are marine mammals, and spend much of their time on Arctic sea ice. Many adaptations make polar bears uniquely suited to life in icy…

The Tropical bird lesson is a classic here. I think the reason it is such a great drawing subject is that there are so many colorful birds in the Rain forest.There are the Parrots, the Toucans,and the Macaws to name a few. Parrots have beautiful long feathers, that are a delight to draw. The Toucan…

This is one of my favorite lessons! The Sea Turtle! This lesson involved learning about the life cycle of the Turtle. How they are born, make it to sea and survive. We learned that Sea Turtles have patterns on their shell and their fins and that they have a beak for a mouth so they…