Sneak Peek #5: New Guide Missions to Modern Marvels
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:40 pm
Ladies,
I only have time today for a quick sneak peek, but it is a goodie!
We're very excited about the CM-style nature journal that we will schedule within this guide's plans. It is titled Nature Drawing and Journaling and is a brand-new product (in 2011) by Barry Stebbing of How Great Thou Art! It is exactly what we have been looking for and incorporates a love for nature, includes lessons on drawing from nature, guides students in keeping a nature journal, and works to look at nature as God's glorious handiwork. Link: http://www.howgreatthouart.com/products/111.html
Description: A unique combination of nature journaling instructions, reflections, and space for your own work, Nature Drawing and Journaling will keep you outside observing & thinking for hours. Filled with Barry Stebbing's 40 years' worth of insights on studying nature and keeping an art journal, with patience and practice you'll be able to create your very own! Supply lists, instructions on what a journal is (and is not), and hints on starting your own are provided. The journal pages feature journal entries, full-color illustrations, a quote at the top, and often full-page reproductions of Barry Stebbing's journal. 127 pages, spiralbound softcover, with blank pages in the back.
In tandem with the nature journaling twice weekly, we also plan to include nature-inspired poetry from Wordsworth, Longfellow, and Whitman in particular. We will likely spend 12 weeks, or a CM-style term, on each poet. We hope you will be as excited about this selection as we are!
With this latest choice, we will have done the CM fine arts skills in a 4 year rotation, doing watercolor painting weekly along with Robert Frost's poetry in CTC, art appreciation with picture study in RTR, music appreciation with composer study in Rev2Rev (plus classic paintings included throughout the Student Notebook), and nature journaling in MTMM. We will have done classic poetry every year from Beyond on up, sketching practice with instruction through Draw and Write from CTC through MTMM, and a scheduled hymn singing and hymn appreciation in Bigger (with more hymns to come in MTMM).
Blessings,
Carrie
I only have time today for a quick sneak peek, but it is a goodie!
We're very excited about the CM-style nature journal that we will schedule within this guide's plans. It is titled Nature Drawing and Journaling and is a brand-new product (in 2011) by Barry Stebbing of How Great Thou Art! It is exactly what we have been looking for and incorporates a love for nature, includes lessons on drawing from nature, guides students in keeping a nature journal, and works to look at nature as God's glorious handiwork. Link: http://www.howgreatthouart.com/products/111.htmlDescription: A unique combination of nature journaling instructions, reflections, and space for your own work, Nature Drawing and Journaling will keep you outside observing & thinking for hours. Filled with Barry Stebbing's 40 years' worth of insights on studying nature and keeping an art journal, with patience and practice you'll be able to create your very own! Supply lists, instructions on what a journal is (and is not), and hints on starting your own are provided. The journal pages feature journal entries, full-color illustrations, a quote at the top, and often full-page reproductions of Barry Stebbing's journal. 127 pages, spiralbound softcover, with blank pages in the back.
In tandem with the nature journaling twice weekly, we also plan to include nature-inspired poetry from Wordsworth, Longfellow, and Whitman in particular.
We will likely spend 12 weeks, or a CM-style term, on each poet. We hope you will be as excited about this selection as we are! With this latest choice, we will have done the CM fine arts skills in a 4 year rotation, doing watercolor painting weekly along with Robert Frost's poetry in CTC, art appreciation with picture study in RTR, music appreciation with composer study in Rev2Rev (plus classic paintings included throughout the Student Notebook), and nature journaling in MTMM. We will have done classic poetry every year from Beyond on up, sketching practice with instruction through Draw and Write from CTC through MTMM, and a scheduled hymn singing and hymn appreciation in Bigger (with more hymns to come in MTMM).
Blessings,
Carrie
Can't wait to see and use it! 