We have been using Artistic Pursuits this year as part of our Fine Art studies.  I have to say that so far, I absolutely love it!  It's one of the only art appreciation studies that actually contains prints of the paintings.  It says to affix them into the book, but  I like to have them on display as we're studying them.  It also gives information that is written a bit like a story, about the time period, the painter and an art activity to go along with it.

One of our recent assignments was to paint a building.  It was supposed to be local, but the weather was wet and so instead of going for a walk to find one, we looked in books.

Here are my sons interpretations of:

The Eiffel Tower

and...

The Taj Mahal

Raven's complaint about the Taj Mahal was that it had no colour.  So he decided to add some!

Chickadee's painting isn't finished yet.  She's a perfectionist and so it might not be done for a while.

Thanks for dropping in!

Those are wonderful pictures!