McWhorter Academy - Our First Experiment With Oil Pastels

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Feb. 7, 2008

Our First Experiment With Oil Pastels

This week we started experimenting with nature journals and sketching. I love reading Harmony Art Mom's blog, so I've been trying to follow her advice and taking some inspiration from her. Today, we even tried out our oil pastels, which was a lot of fun. The weather has been absolutely beautiful here this week, with temperatures into the upper 70s, so I thought we would take advantage of it. Their assignment today was to sketch anything in nature, not necessarily something that they were experiencing at the moment. I've come to the conclusion, just within a week, that all three of us enjoy sketching trees, leaves, and plants more than anything else, which is fine, but I think I'll have to broaden our horizons just a bit next week. LOL.

~ Karen

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Feb. 9, 2008 - Beautiful

Posted by HomeForHim

Hi Karen,
You have some artists! What beautiful paintings! My kids love doing that kind of stuff too, especially outdoor subjects. But they also enjoy drawing and painting still life's as well. BTW, I got your book meme up this morning. I kind of enjoyed that. It's like looking for a special gift that someone's hidden and you have to find. LOL

Hope you have a lovely day!! We had unusually warm weather this past week....but very rainy.

Talk to you soon!
Deborah

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Feb. 11, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by blessedwith2angels

Those sketches look great. I think we need to try to do this in our homeschool. We sketch sometimes, but not on a regular basis. It will have to be a nice warm day for me to do this though (or we will just wind up looking out the window and sketching.) : )
Pam

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Mar. 8, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by mcgyver959701

Dropping by to say Hello!! Have a blessed weekend.

Blessings,
Lynn

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Apr. 12, 2008 - cool

Posted by Anonymous

Wow those are pretty cool.

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My name is Karen O'Neal, and I've been married to my husband, Scott, for 18 years. This is our third year of homeschooling our 13-year-old son, Christopher, and our 12-year-old daughter, Kelli.