Is your Child an Artist?

Do you do art? - Part 3 of 6 - Is your child an artist! - This is the first of a series of interviews with real home school moms on how they integrate art into their week?

As parents we can get caught in the trap of trying to fit our children into a mold. This mold is established in our subconscious through our experiences and education. We all know our children need reading, writing and arithmetic, why, because that is how we were taught.

We are home schooling our children for a reason. We believe the system (public school) is broken and we want a better education for our children. We must be careful not to turn our home school days into a carbon copy of a public school class.

Home schooling give us a wonderful opportunity to give our children exposure to many different things. Through this opportunity we can better understand the special gifts, talents and passions God has given our children and help to mold their education to prepare them to live a life doing what God made them to do.


Is your child and artist? A friend of mine posted a wonderful blog about his appreciation for his mother. Here is a little taste.

"Today, is my mother’s 72nd birthday. I woke up this morning thinking about how great she was when I was a kid.

When I was about five a friend of my parents, Ruth Holmstrom, a home-ec teacher, was over for dinner with her husband Chuck. Mrs. Holmstrom pulled me aside and showed me how to draw a swan starting with the number 2. She told my mother that I had some artistic ability, and within a few weeks mom enrolled me in an after-school art class.

I took about 10 years of private art lessons at the encouragement of my mother. She was always gracious when I came in and asked if I could try something new, not thinking about the expense of new supplies and what a burden it may have been.

As the “art” years added up I came to realize that I didn’t have the talent or drive to flourish as a studio artist, and one day when turning in illustrations for my freshman school yearbook the teacher asked if I would get some pictures of the homecoming parade. I rushed in and rummaged around, then asked my mother where the camera was (it was a weird Minolta 110 camera with a zoom lens). I was hooked! I could be creative and “capture” a moment for everyone to see for all time"

You can read the rest of the post here. John Faught's Blog

Are we preparing our children to live the life God intended or are we training them to just be another employee?

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Are your art lessons right for you?

Do you do art? - Part 2 of 6 - Does it fit me! - This is the first of a series of interviews with real home school moms on how they integrate art into their week?

Being a home educator, your life is undergoing constant change and adjustment. Things that worked when your children were four and five may not work now that they are 11 and 12. It is important to recognize who you are and who your family is this year and make adjustments to align your school days with current needs.


Art is one of the subjects that you need to evaluate. Ask yourself these questions:

- Are you artistic?
- Do you enjoy doing projects with your children?
- Is your house setup to facilitate these projects?
- Are you so afraid of the mess that you don't do art?

Be honest with your answers. Avoiding art is not a solution. Understanding yourself and your family is key to your home school success!

Her are a few tips to make sure your art is in alignment with you and your families needs.

1) Do you and your children understand?

Pick age appropriate lessons. This will help your child execute a successful project and be proud of their work. If you don’t understand it they won’t either!

2) Are you organized?

The biggest reason I see for unsuccessful art lessons is a lack of organization. Let’s face it, if it is a huge hassle to setup and clean up you won’t do it! Get organized and art can be FUN!

3) Do you want to lead the lesson or be led?

You must think about how involved you want to be in the lessons. Some mothers want to get dirty with the children. Other moms want to have a self lead lesson, giving mom some freedom to focus on other things providing only a little oversight. Make sure the lessons you pick fit your needs.

4) Does your art lesson fit your schedule?

When will you do art and how long will it take? This is a huge one. If you only have 45 minutes and the lessons you pick take 2 hours…Houston, we have a problem. My bet is you never do art! Consider your schedule as you pick your art lessons, it will give you a solid foundation for success.

What ever you do don’t blow off art. The impact that art will have on your children will last a lifetime!

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5 Ways To Ease The Art Mess

by Nikki Nixon

Yes, I am a messaphobic!  The thought of having to clean up messes scares me.  I seem to be cleaning messes all day long with 5 active children in the house. 



Do you do art? - Part 1 of 6 - The Mess! - This is the first of a series of interviews with real home school moms on how they integrate art into their week. How do you deal with the mess?

Proverbs 14:4 says, "Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; But much increase comes by the strength of an ox."   This nugget of wisdom is useful in so many situations.

I like to say, "Where no art projects are, the house is clean; But much increase comes from allowing the children to be creative!"

Here's five ways I've found to lessen the mess so we can all enjoy being creative.

1. Set the expectations.

- Teach the children how to set up and take down for each lesson. 

2. Understand how to care for the supplies.
-  Watch the Understanding Your Supplies videos on FineArtExperience.com.

3. Keep things organized.

-  Store supplies in buckets on bookshelves.

4. Make clean up easy.

-  Cover workspace with a shower liner.  When the lesson is done, fold it up and put it in the bucket.
-  Have the children wear paint shirts.  Store the shirts in the bucket.

5. Put it on the calendar.

-  Do art once a week.  Decide the day and time and stick to it. When the children want to do art at other times, remind them that art will be done at the scheduled time.

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All New Pricing!

Great News! After hearing from many home school families about the trying times they are having in today's economy I have decided to lower the price!

I want all families to enjoy the benefits of art in their children s lives!

Now you can get the first month for only $9.95! WOW!

And each additional month is now only $29.95.

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Spread the news to all of your home school friends. They too can add art to their home school week without breaking the budget!

And if that was not enough there is more...

I am now opening up the Fine Art Experience Community for FREE! Yes, you heard...ur...read that right, FREE!

Now you and all of your home school friends can join the Fine Art Experience Community and interact with me and other home school families about how to get art into your school week! There is a wealth of information available to you and I look forward to getting to know you as we all depart on our "Journey Through Art" as home educators. Join Today for FREE! Are you already a member? If so click here to login.

Feel free to share this link with all of your home school friends so we can build the best home school art community ever!

I look forward to meeting you in the Fine Art Experience Community!

Brandon Nixon

Artist and Home Educator

Drama in the Sky

This is a quick video of a great sky!


Amazing Drama in the Sky.
This is a short video of an amazing sky one evening!

To learn more about how you or your children can learn the techiniques to capture a sky like this in a painting check out www.fineartexperience.com

Now Accepting Members!

I'm so excited to announce Fine Art Experience is here and now accepting members! It has been a lot of hard work but it has been worth it to insure your children get the fine art lessons they deserve.

So, what do you want or need to start including fine art lessons into your home school day? After talking with many homeschool families this is what I learned.

- You want fine art to be part of your children's curriculum because it is a foundational part of a classical education.

- You want to teach your children art but you don't know anything about it! With FAE you don't need to know anything about art. You will have a professional artist teach your children all of the concepts professional artist use every day.

- You also want to be provided high quality art lessons that fit your family's budget! FAE is a monthly membership site that normally costs $49.95/month which is a great savings over normal art lessons, but that just isn't good enoough! Now you can get it for only $39.95/month! And to make it even better you will get a 30 day trial membership for only $29.95! Wow, that is less than it costs me to buy two large pizzas for my family last week!

- You don't want to taxi your children all over town to get to art lessons. Fine Art Experience brings the artist's studio to you! You can access the lesson directly from your home computer and all you need is a high speed internet connection.

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- And finally, you and your children want access to the art instructor. With your membership to Fine Art Experience you get access to the Fine Art Experience Community. This is an online community where you can ask questions and interact with the me and other students. It is also a place to communicate with and other home school parents that have figured out creative ways to organize and manage art lesson at home. The Fine Art Experience Community also contains an online student art gallery where you can post you student's work and enjoy other student's paintings as well. This is a premium feature you get absolutely FREE for being one of our charter members!

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