Art, art and more art.

Somehow I brought into the world a creative lad.   He has a story for everything, he draws, makes movies, builds armour, designs elaborate lives for his papercraft characters and generally is just a fun lad to be around.   He is also sensitive and easily stressed so one finds ways to keep down the tensions and make learning doable.    Me.. who doesn't DO art well, is finding ways to DO art with this lad.

Here is a glimpse into our world.

One thing I added this year was "Be Creative Everyday".   Just stopping and drawing for 15 minutes at least three days a week.  I had hoped to make it five days a week but since Mondays and Fridays we do things differently and Wednesdays we are often at the Foodbank helping out something needed to shift.     

Fridays is our "Do Things Differently Day"   We do art studying Canada and doing our math journal.     I have to admit that we haven't been doing our math journal lately as we've been filling our time with other things.  :)

We been playing math games both in real life, using android apps as well as playing board games.  :)   BUT this is NOT a math post, this is an art post. 

So let me think.. how else do we add art to our days?

My son draws on my tablet, we have a number of art apps that he uses.    He's recently added a new one where he can act out a scene and add audio to it.   In that program he can also animate drawings.

Art seems to happy everywhere I turn around in this house, from happy faces drawn on squash, to papercraft creations helping us with our school work, it's all good stuff.   He's breaking me out of my cozy non-arty shell (other than the let's go to the museum and ooh and ahh over what others have done thing I do).  :)

My post from the VCF from two years ago can be found here.

Some other artsy posts you might enjoy
Learning to do a caricature.
four wonderful art books.
Art Attack Videos.
Christmas Craft Fun.
Real life homeschool: Art.

Chareen @ Every Bed of Roses - Seeking Beauty Through the Arts
Yvie @ Gypsy Road - Art Museum Staycation & Elements of Art Unit
Sarah@ Delivering Grace - First Things First
Laura @ Day by Day in Our World - Add An Element of Beauty with Fine Arts in the Homeschool
Lisa@ Golden Grasses - What Are We Fighting For?
Annette @ A Net In Time - Art, art, and more art
Kristen @ Sunrise to Sunset - The Sounds of Music
Kym @ Homeschool Coffee Break - Music and Other Beautiful Things