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Famous Artist Roy Lichtenstein

Learn about Famous Artist Roy Lichtenstein and the Pop Art medium with Nana's From My Back Porch podcast and her famous artists series.

In 1961, Famous Artist Roy Lichtenstein was challenged by one of his young sons. His son pointed to a Mickey Mouse comic book and said, “I bet you can’t paint as good as that, eh, Dad?” Lichtenstein took the challenge and his career in Pop Art was bolstered. Thus came the first large-scale depiction of comic book characters and the famous “Ben Day” dots. The dots were used by newspaper ink for coloring the iconic Disney mouse in the painting “Look Mickey!”

Roy Lichtenstein was trying to find his niche in the exploding Pop Art medium. We will see how he was inspired by comics; though hounded by critics for years of copying stroke by stroke comic book artists. He was inspired by comics featuring war, crashing airplanes and bombs plus romantic stories of the war heroes. He will show us how he was searching for anything that was emotionally strong – from these newspaper comics heroes to even cartoon animals!

Famous Artist Roy Artist Lichtenstein Show Notes

Highlights

  • 1:42 What is Pop Art?
  • 2:51 Ben Day Dots
  • 4:11 Lichtenstein’s Comic Strips

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Learn about Famous Artist Roy Lichtenstein and the Pop Art medium with Nana's From My Back Porch podcast and her famous artists series. Accompanying art lesson!

Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.

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Famous Artist Georges Seurat

Famous artist Georges Seurat changed painted in pointillism. Listen to Nana's podcast on Seurat then enjoy Nana's art lesson!

In his short life, famous artist Georges Seurat held a long-reaching paintbrush in his hand. His influence with that brush brought about a renewal of public interest in the Impressionist artists of the day. His paintings changed how our very eyes can be coaxed into seeing colors optically. Important painting masters such as Vincent Van Gogh and Pissarro used dots of colors that Seurat believed could revolutionize the art world. These artists were laughed at by art critics who called the technique pointillism as an insult!

The technique is still used and pointillism is no longer thought of as an insult. Modern 20th century Pop Art painters such as Roy Lichtenstein used this “fool the eye” technique. Lichtenstein turned pointillism into a highly successful career, his artwork selling in the millions to galleries and patrons worldwide.

“Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.”

– Georges Seurat
In his short life, famous artist Georges Seurat held a long-reaching paintbrush in his hand—his influence with that brush brought about a renewal of public interest in the Impressionist artists of the day—and changed how our very eyes can be coaxed into seeing colors optically. Listen to Nana's podcast on Seurat then enjoy Nana's art lesson!

All due to a very young Frenchman, laboring away with his idea of dots or points of color.

Famous Artist Georges Seurat Show Notes

Read Famous Artist Georges Seurat Transcript HERE.

Highlights

  • 1:56 What is Pointillism?
  • 3:10 Bathers at Asnières
  • 4:20 About Chromoluminarism
  • 5:31 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Nana’s Seurat lesson will premiere in the You ARE an ARTiST Clubhouse in April. The Seurat replay will be in the Famous Artists series exclusive to the You ARE an Artist Complete Clubhouse. Be sure to join Nana in our FREE You ARE an Artist Facebook group and our community on Instagram and all the social media as well.

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A Happy Little Bob Ross Homeschool Study: Famous Artist Series

Happy clouds! Happy trees! Let's find out why soft-spoken Famous Artist Bob Ross still lifts our spirits and fascinates us!

Happy clouds! Happy trees! Famous artist Bob Ross made us believe that he was speaking to a single viewer. And, in doing so, he painted an illusion that he was giving us a private lesson.

Ross’ life was one of “happy coincidence” — the right art teacher taught him the perfect technique to finish an oil painting in 30 minutes. That skill was very useful years later as 30 minutes was the time that he would be given to film “Joy of Painting “ segments! Ross also flawlessly executed the saying that comic Steve Martin made famous: “Be so good that they can’t ignore you.”

We are still listening to and watching Bob Ross on television 25 years after his death. So, let’s put on a smock, get a palette with Van Dye brown paint, a big brush, and find out why this soft-spoken artist still lifts our spirits and fascinates us!

Bob Ross Study For Your Homeschool

Read the Famous Artist Bob Ross Podcast Transcript HERE.

Highlights

  • 1:26 Ross’ Early Life & Military Career
  • 4:17 What is Wet-on-Wet Painting?
  • 5:45 The Joy of Painting
  • 8:46 Ross’ Iconic Phrases

Listen to Nana’s Bob Ross Study on YouTube

You ARE an ARTiST Clubhouse members enjoy Nana’s Bob Ross art lesson! Join us!

Famous Artist Series: Homeschool Unity Study

Nana’s Bob Ross lesson is a part of the Famous Artists series exclusive to the You ARE an Artist Complete Clubhouse. Our members receive an accompanying Famous Artists I Drew It Then I Knew It Companion workbook with a Bob Ross biography, fast facts and more.

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. - Bob Ross Happy clouds! Happy trees! Let's find out why soft-spoken Famous Artist Bob Ross still lifts our spirits and fascinates us!

Be sure to join Nana in our FREE You ARE an Artist Facebook group and our community on Instagram and all the social media as well.

Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.

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Famous Artist Edgar Degas

Famous Artist Edgar Degas seemed to always be fighting for or against something! He never liked being called an “Impressionist”. He preferred to be called a “Realist” or an “Independent “ painter. But, actually, he was one of the Impressionists founders and organizers of its exhibitions. He was a core member. Degas’ choice of subject matter reflected a change to a modern way of painting. He loved painting folks at their daily work or jobs. Others looked down on this as a slice of Parisian low life – because they worked for a living.

By 1885, most of Degas’s more important works were painted in pastels. We will learn that he successfully combined painting and drawing when he was working with his brilliant colored pastels!

By 1885, most of Degas’s more important works were painted in pastels. We will learn that he successfully combined painting and drawing when he was working with his brilliant colored pastels!

Famous Artist Edgar Degas Show Notes

Highlights

  • 1:16 Degas’s Name
  • 2:28 Copying Paintings
  • 5:02 The Impressionists

Nana’s Degas lesson is in the Famous Artists series exclusive to the You ARE an Artist Complete ClubhouseAnd be sure to join Nana in our FREE You ARE an Artist Facebook group and our community on Instagram and all the social media as well.

Famous Artist Edgar Degas successfully combined painting and drawing when he was working with his brilliant colored pastels! From Nana's Back Porch Podcast.

Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.

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A Delightful Homeschool Study Of Famous Artist Beatrix Potter

Famous Artist Beatrix Potter, born on the 28th of July, 1866, is one of the world’s best-selling and most-loved children’s authors. She wrote and illustrated close to 30 children’s books.

Those books star Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Benjamin Bunny. Her books have been translated into more than 35 languages and have sold more than 100 million copies! Beatrix Potter…SHE was REALLY an artist!

Come on, let’s go visit Hill Top Farm and meet all of her favorite animals!

“If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.”

– Beatrix Potter
Famous Artist Beatrix Potter, born on the 28th of July, 1866, is one of the world’s best-selling and most-loved children’s authors. She wrote and illustrated close to 30 children’s books. Those books star Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Benjamin Bunny. Her books have been translated into more than 35 languages and have sold more than 100 million copies! Beatrix Potter...SHE was REALLY an artist!

An Overview Of Our Beatrix Potter Study

Highlights

  • 1:20 Beatrix’s Pets
  • 2:33 Summers in Scotland
  • 4:51 Beatrix’s Inspiration
  • 6:43 Peter Rabbit

Nana’s Beatrix Potter Podcast on YouTube

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Besides this Beatrix Potter art lesson, Nana has shared many animal art lessons that match up with the famous Beatrix Potter animal characters! You can find these in our art membership to enjoy!

Nana's video art lessons capture the beauty of a garden! No expensive, intimidating list of art supplies. Garden Nature Video Art Lessons are a wonderful stand alone art curriculum or a perfect complement to your nature study learning.

Additional Resources For Studying Famous Artists In Your Homeschool

Nana’s Beatrix Potter lesson is a part of our Famous Artists Series. We offer 47 famous artists video lessons for your homeschool including:

  • Vermeer
  • Michelangelo
  • da Vinci
  • Warhol
  • Monet
  • Rockwell
  • Rembrandt
  • Lichtenstein
  • Audubon
  • Beatrix Potter

… and a new one added about once a month!

The Famous Artists series is exclusive to the You ARE an Artist Complete Clubhouse.

Famous Artist Beatrix Potter, born on the 28th of July, 1866, is one of the world’s best-selling and most-loved children’s authors. She wrote and illustrated close to 30 children’s books. Those books star Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Benjamin Bunny. Her books have been translated into more than 35 languages and have sold more than 100 million copies! Beatrix Potter...SHE was REALLY an artist!

And be sure to join Nana in our FREE You ARE an Artist Facebook group and our community on Instagram and all the social media as well.

Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.

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Leonardo da Vinci Homeschool Art Lesson: Perfect For All Ages

This Leonardo da Vinci homeschool art lesson introduces his works of art and allows your child to create a Mona Lisa of their own!

Famous Artist Leonardo da Vinci podcast from Nana's Back Porch. Let’s go follow this man reputed to be the genius of his generation.

Would you recognize a genius if you saw him just walking down the street? Do you think that that you could be successful in life if you had no formal education? Would you spend all your waking hours dreaming up outrageous inventions and machines?

If you had lived in Italy over 400 years ago—most townspeople in Florence would have rolled their eyes and chuckled—why, yes! That’s famous artist Leonardo da Vinci, of course! One of the world’s greatest artists.

Look, there he goes, off to test his latest invention: a flying machine! Everyone wants to know why isn’t he content as a magnificent artist? Quick, catch his cape and hold on! Let’s go follow this man reputed to be the genius of his generation. And, 400 years later, you will agree.

Yes, that’s Artist Leonardo da Vinci!

Let’s go follow this man reputed to be the genius of his generation. And, 400 years later, you will agree. Yes, that’s famous artist Leonardo da Vinci!

An Overview Of Our Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Homeschool Study

Read Nana’s Famous Artist Leonardo da Vinci Transcript HERE.

Highlights

  • 1:50 Artist Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks
  • 3:47 The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
  • 4:31 Salvator Mundi
  • 5:45 da Vinci’s Discoveries and Inventions

Listen to Nana’s Leonardo da Vinci Podcast on YouTube

Learn More About Famous Artist Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

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  • The Last Supper is a lesson included in Nana’s I Drew It Then I Knew It New Testament set of lessons in the You ARE an Artist Complete Clubhouse.

Additional Resources For Studying Famous Artists In Your Homeschool

We offer 47 famous artists video lessons for your homeschool including:

  • Vermeer
  • Michelangelo
  • da Vinci
  • Warhol
  • Monet
  • Rockwell
  • Rembrandt
  • Lichtenstein
  • Audubon
  • Beatrix Potter

… and a new one added about once a month!

And be sure to join Nana in our FREE You ARE an Artist Facebook group and our community on Instagram and all the social media as well.

Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.

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Famous Artist Michelangelo

I’m taking your hand as we walk through the Vatican in Rome, Italy. We will look up at the magnificent Sistine Chapel paintings. We will marvel at how famous artist Michelangelo worked for over four years in paint and wet plaster to give the world these stories from the Bible. Then we will gaze at his beautifully carved sculptures that seem to live and breathe! This is ART at its best! Ready? Let’s go!

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

– Michelangelo
Nana's famous artist Michelangelo podcast. He painted and used wet plaster to give the world stories from the Bible. This is ART at its best!

Famous Artist Michelangelo Show Notes

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Nana's famous artist Michelangelo podcast. He painted and used wet plaster to give the world stories from the Bible. This is ART at its best!

Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.

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Famous Artist John James Audubon Homeschool Lesson

Have you ever fallen in love with a bird that you saw outside in your yard? I did. I was blessed to see an Indigo Bunting perched on my fence in the backyard. Literally my heart stopped – he was so incredibly beautiful! Perhaps this was Famous Artist John James Audubon’s thought when he arrived in the wild, ancient forests of a young America!

All those heart-stopping beautiful birds that Audubon saw in the wilderness. They MUST be painted and each detail recorded! His stunning portraits of our American birds give us a rare look at what was in our forests in the 1820s. Some of those birds, sadly, do not exist today.

Come on! Grab a saddlebag and join us as we explore the forests of early America and see this great country through the eyes of famous artist John James Audubon!

“Never give up listening to the sounds of birds!”

– John James Audubon

Famous Artist John James Audubon For Your Homeschool

Read Nana’s John James Audubon Podcast Transcript HERE

Highlights

  • 1:31 Audubon’s Early Life
  • 2:32 Bird Banding
  • 3:22 A Bird Drawing Quest
  • 7:09 Audubon’s Conservation Efforts

Listen to Nana’s John James Audubon Podcast on YouTube

A true conservationist is a man who knows the world is not given to him by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

-John James Audubon
John James Audubon Quote: "During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks." - John James Audubon

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Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.

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A Hands-On Homeschool Study Of Famous Artist Vincent Van Gogh

This homeschool study includes everything you need for a hands-on approach to learning about Vincent Van Gogh.

Famous Artist Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most gifted artists that ever lived. Nana chats about Van Gogh's iconic “Starry Night.”

Famous Artist Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most gifted artists that ever lived. Van Gogh only painted for a little longer than ten years, but he produced over 2,000 pieces of art! 

Some of Van Gogh’s most famous and celebrated paintings are his Sunflowers. Each sunflower is different in color and placement…either in a vase or left in a field of flowers! It is said that he painted sunflowers in a yellow house that he rented in Arles, France. He rented the house for the visit of his friend, Paul Gauguin.

An Overview Of Our Vincent Van Gogh Homeschool Study

Today, our lesson is on a very famous painting that he created towards the end of his life, the iconic “Starry Night.” The night sky has his famous broken line circles that you will learn how to paint yourself!  This style is now known world wide but not during the time Van Gogh was alive. At the time of his death the world was not ready to embrace his style and flamboyant use of color. 

Years after he passed away, Vincent Van Gogh has become one of the most successful artists in history – his paintings commanding millions today.

Famous Artist Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most gifted artists that ever lived. Nana chats about Van Gogh's iconic “Starry Night.”

Listen to Nana’s Van Gogh Podcast on YouTube

Van Gogh and Handel Unit Study For Family Style Learning

This unit was designed so children of all ages can participate in art and music appreciation in your family. You will love to study Vincent Van Gogh in your family’s artist studies. There is just so much to learn! If your family would like a simple to use plan to get started with your own Van Gogh artist study, we would love to introduce you to the Homeschool Fine Arts Van Gogh and Handel Unit. These plans make it easy for you to offer quality artist study with simple activities and follow up notebook pages.

Famous Artist Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most gifted artists that ever lived. Nana chats about Van Gogh's iconic “Starry Night.” Plus You ARE an ARTiST has a full Van Gogh Unit Study!

You ARE an ARTiST Complete Clubhouse members enjoy this unit, included in membership!

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Additional Resources For Studying Famous Artists In Your Homeschool

We offer 47 famous artists video lessons for your homeschool including:

  • Vermeer
  • Michelangelo
  • da Vinci
  • Warhol
  • Monet
  • Rockwell
  • Rembrandt
  • Lichtenstein
  • Audubon
  • Beatrix Potter

… and a new one added about once a month!

And be sure to join Nana in our FREE You ARE an Artist Facebook group and our community on Instagram and all the social media as well.

Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.

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Famous Artist Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn was and still is considered one of the world’s most famous artists. He was known for his inventive and different ways to capture the interest of the viewer gazing at his paintings. He could paint VERY large paintings. The most famous one of his large masterpieces was “Night Watch” – a massive 14 feet long and 12 feet wide painting! It depicts the preparation for a battle, no the soldiers are not in straight lines at attention, they are loading their guns, moving around, checking to see if everyone is ready to fight. This was such a different way to see a work of art! The soldiers are looking at YOU, the viewer. And the man at the back of the room is pointing at you! 

“ Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”

Rembrandt

Famous Artist Rembrandt Show Notes

Enjoy painting the dark night the sleeping Joseph and the blindingly bright Angel! This is truly a painting that a master of art has given us.

Our lesson is a favorite of my family, it tells a story and is named “Joseph’s Dream”. You will instantly see Rembrandt’s use of light and dark.  It is in the middle of the night, and Joseph is asleep in a chair. Suddenly, the Angel of the Lord appears to Joseph with a message. A very important message warning Joseph to take Mary and the child and flee to Egypt.

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Nana is passionate about helping you realize you ARE an artist! Not only an artist with chalk pastels but with homeschooling, creative spaces, favorite family recipes and more. Nana also enjoys chatting – especially about art. If you have followed along with any of her You ARE an Artist video art lessons, you know that. She also enjoys sharing photos and thoughts on topics while she is being creative in her studio space on her back porch. That is where she will be chatting with you – from her back porch. It’s Nana’s You ARE an Artist Podcast!

-Special thanks to Erin Vincent and her artists for the beautiful photos. Be sure to visit her at Nourishing My Scholar.