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To school or not to school? With so much up in the air, every parent we know is going back and forth trying to decide what to do this school year. Whether you decided to send your kids back, try online classes, or find your own homeschool curriculum - Our Great Artists! course was created with your family in mind!
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Through 6 full-time weeks of daily videos, art and crafts tutorials, and other hands-on learning, your child will finish the course with important knowledge about artists from diverse backgrounds, cultures, time periods, and art styles.
Whether your child is 6 or 13, they will also learn basic principles of art that they can use in their own work - both in what they create during the course and in the future as they find their unique style.⁠

What does this course include?

  • 01

    Frida Kahlo

    • Welcome!

    • Day 1: Who Was Frida Kahlo?

    • Day 1 Warm Up: Medical Illustration

    • Day 1 Warm Up: HINT

    • Day 1 Activity: Colorful Engraving

    • Day 1 Printable: Frida Kahlo Paper Doll

    • Finish Day 1

    • Day 2: Frida and Her Family

    • Day 2 Warm Up: Blind Contour

    • Day 2 Printable: La Casa Azul

    • Finish Day 2

    • Day 3: What is Surrealism?

    • Day 3 Warm Up: Favorite Things

    • Day 3: Frida and the Flowers

    • Day 3 Activity: Paper Plant

    • Day 3 Printable: Learn Spanish Words

    • Finish Day 3

    • Day 4 Warm Up: Mexican Folk Art Patterns

    • Day 4 Activity: Family Retablo

    • Day 4 Printable: Mexican Folk Art Mandala

    • Finish Day 4

    • Day 5 Notable Piece of Art: Las Dos Fridas

    • Day 5 Warm Up: How to draw a self-portrait

    • Day 5 Printable: Frida's Flower Crown

    • Day 5 Activity: Frida Gets Dressed

    • Frida Kahlo Quiz

    • Certificate of Completion

    • Bonus Resources
  • 02

    Claude Monet

    • Claude Monet Intro Video

    • Supply List for Week 2: Claude Monet

    • Day 1: Who was Claude Monet?

    • Day 1 Warm Up: Value Challenge

    • Day 1 Activity: Seeing with Colored Glasses

    • Day 1 Printable: Monet Paper Doll

    • Finish Day 1

    • Day 2: Monet's Artistic Style

    • Day 2 Warm Up: Charcoal Caricatures

    • Day 2 Activity: Making your own Creative Space

    • Day 2 Printable: Haystack

    • Finish Day 2

    • Day 3: Impressionism and Strokes

    • Day 3 Warm Up: En Plein Air

    • Day 3 Activity: Brush Strokes

    • Day 3 Printable: Monet Coloring Page

    • Finish Day 3

    • Day 4: Values

    • Day 4 Warm Up: Dream Breakfast

    • Day 4 Activity: Tissue Paper

    • Day 4 Printable: Learning the Color Wheel

    • Finish Day 4

    • Day 5: Overlapping and Mixing Colors

    • Day 5 Warm Up: Experimenting with color mixing

    • Day 5 Activity: Foam Water Lily Pad

    • Day 5 Printable: Giverny Pop-up House

    • Monet Quiz

    • Certificate of Completion
  • 03

    Rembrandt

    • Supply List for Week 3: Rembrandt

    • Day 1: Who Was Rembrandt?

    • Day 1 Warm Up: Drawing with Flour

    • Day 1 Activity: Make a Windmill

    • Day 1 Printable: Rembrandt Paper Doll

    • Finish Day 1

    • Day 2: Rembrandt Learns

    • Day 2: Rembrandt's Etchings

    • Day 2 Warm Up: Value Hatching

    • Day 2 Activity: Make a Rubber Stamp

    • Day 2 Printable: Self-Portrait Coloring Pages

    • Finish Day 2

    • Day 3: Dutch Golden Age

    • Day 3 Warm Up: What's in Your Treasure Chest?

    • Day 3 Activity: Make your own Delft Tile

    • Day 3 Printable: Make your own Tulipmania!

    • Finish Day 3

    • Day 4: Shadows and Light

    • Day 4 Warm Up: Chiaroscuro

    • Day 4: Tronies

    • Day 4 Activity: Tronie Character Study and Props

    • Day 4 Printable: Tronie Blocks

    • Finish Day 4

    • Day 5: Night Watch

    • Day 5 Warm Up: Drawing Night Watch

    • Day 5 Activity: Night Watch Light Theater

    • Day 5 Printable: Connect the Dots of Night Watch

    • Rembrandt Quiz

    • Certificate of Completion
  • 04

    Alma Thomas

    • Supply List for Week 4: Alma Thomas

    • Day 1: Who was Alma Thomas?

    • Day 1 Warm Up: Brush Strokes

    • Day 1 Activity: Making a Clay Bowl

    • Day 1 Printable: Alma Thomas Paper Doll

    • Finish Day 1

    • Day 2: Figurative and Abstract Portraits

    • Day 2 Warm Up: Couch Drawing + Blind Contour

    • Day 2 Activity: Marionette

    • Day 2 Printable: Paper Puppets

    • Finish Day 2

    • Day 3: Color Field Movement

    • Day 3 Warm Up: Shape Cut Out

    • Day 3 Activity: Paper Chain

    • Day 3 Printable: Space Mobile

    • Finish Day 3

    • Day 4: West African Prints and Byzantine Mosaics

    • Day 4 Warm Up: Colorful Patterns

    • Day 4 Activity: Painted Bean Mosaic

    • Day 4 Printable: Space and Flowers

    • Finish Day 4

    • Day 5: Pointillism

    • Day 5 Warm Up: Finger Painting

    • Day 5 Activity: Potato Printing

    • Day 5 Printable: Kitchen Diorama

    • Certificate of Completion

    • Alma Thomas Quiz
  • 05

    Michelangelo

    • Supply List for Week 5: Michelangelo

    • Day 1: Who was Michelangelo?

    • Day 1 Warm Up: Poetry

    • Day 1 Activity: Florence Skyline

    • Day 1 Printable: Michelangelo Paper Doll

    • Finish Day 1

    • Day 2: Stonecutting

    • Day 2 Warm Up: Drawing Hands

    • Day 2 Activity: Soap Carving

    • Day 2 Printable: Pasta Hair

    • Finish Day 2

    • Day 3: The Renaissance

    • Day 3 Warm Up: Statue Gallery

    • Day 3 Activity: Make a Fresco

    • Day 3 Printable: Famous Renaissance Portraits Coloring Page

    • Finish Day 3

    • Day 4: Architect and Sculptor

    • Day 4 Warm Up: Contrapposto

    • Day 4 Activity: The David Sculpture

    • Day 4 Printable: Build a Puzzle

    • Finish Day 4

    • Day 5: Sistine Chapel

    • Day 5 Warm Up: Foreshortening

    • Day 5 Activity: Drawing Under Table

    • Day 5 Printable: Make a Sistine Chapel

    • Certificate of Completion

    • Michelangelo Quiz
  • 06

    Andy Warhol

    • Day 1: Who Was Andy Warhol?

    • Day 1 Warm Up: Photograph Your Surroundings

    • Day 1 Activity: Slovakian Pattern Transfer

    • Day 1 Printable: Warhol Paper Doll

    • Finish Day 1

    • Day 2: Little Andrew Warhola

    • Day 2 Warm Up: Drawing Shoes

    • Day 2 Activity: Advertising Poster

    • Day 2 Printable: Ice Cream Coloring Page

    • Finish Day 2

    • Day 3: What is Pop Art?

    • Day 3 Warm Up: Screen Printing

    • Day 3 Warm Up: Build Your Own "Silver Factory"

    • Day 3 Printable: Pop Art Coloring Page

    • Finish Day 3

    • Day 4: Techniques

    • Day 4 Warm Up: Color Theory

    • Day 4 Activity: Posterize an image

    • Day 4 Printable: New York Building

    • Finish Day 4

    • Day 5: Soup Cans

    • Day 5 Warm Up: Inspiration Collage

    • Day 5 Activity: Dress like Warhol

    • Day 5 Printable: Soup Can Labels

    • Certificate of Completion

    • Warhol Quiz

    • Thanks for joining us!
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What Does the Course include?

  • Daily Lessons

    Interactive lessons your child can go through at their own pace and access at any time! Each lesson includes different learning methods, perfect for every kind of learner!

  • Crafts

    It wouldn't be a course from The House That Lars Built without plenty of crafts! Materials lists and tutorials included in the course were created to take learning beyond the screen! Because when you make with your hands, you make new discoveries.

  • Videos

    Intro videos for each artist, and simple to understand craft tutorial videos so you can be hands-off while your kids are hands-on learning.

  • Printables

    The amazing printables included in this course are one of our favorite parts! Coloring pages, paper dolls, and other exclusive printables make it next level.

  • Journal Prompts

    Daily warm up projects and journal prompts inspire the learner to apply what they are learning to their own art, as they cultivate their own unique style throughout the course.

  • Fun!

    Learning and creating is fun! This is not your average online course, it is packed full of colorful activities for engaging learning and well-designed projects. Trust us, your kids will be begging to do their Great Artists! course (and you might too!)