Bestowing The Brush

This is a conversation with a dear friend, Heather Hall, who is a professional photographer. We talk about art principles and teaching them to our children through various mediums- what works and what doesn’t. Then, she turns the tables and interviews me! What is Bestowing The Brush and why do I make this show? Why do you listen? Find out!

Also- did you know that I now have a full drawing course for you? Find out more about this fantastic home school art lesson resource that covers brush drawing, charcoal drawing, and more here: http://bestowingthebrush.com/courses

Are you wondering what my videos are like? Check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/bestowingthebrush

Here's many more resources for your home school drawing lessons: http://bestowingthebrush.com/resources

Join my newsletter here: http://bestowingthebrush.com/

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Music: "All You Got" by Dansu. Licensed from MusicBed.

Hi again! This episode gets you ready for the 2020-2021 season of podcasts and also tells you all about my video course. I think it's totally right for your home school. Find out why!...

Click here to preview my video course: http://bestowingthebrush.com/courses

Click here to snag your copy of The Fésole Club Papers: https://www.riverbendpress.com/shop-books/fesole-club-papers-collingwood

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Hi, everyone! To you who are listeners only and haven't been in the know via Instagram, we have new things going on here at BTB Studios. Listen to learn what's up and to hear the reading of this article by Anne Quito called Drawing Is the Best Way to Learn, Even if You’re No Leonardo da Vinci. It's based on a book called Stick Figures: Drawing As A Human Practice by D.B. Dowd. And thank you, as always, for listening and showing your support! I appreciate you so much. Let's stay in touch on my new Brush Club Newsletter! Details below.

Also highlighted in this episode:

By joining my Brush Club Newsletter, you will get video content first as well as other exclusive content- video drawing lessons, tutorials, ideas, art supplies I'm testing, etc.!

My NEW YouTube Channel - Subscribe and click the bell icon to get notified about every new video. Share with a friend that you want to help, too!

My NEW website- bestowingthebrush.com! I hope it's an amazing resource to your home school and to families who want to learn how to draw or teach drawing in the home. Charlotte Mason style.

BTB episode 23: "The Book of Nature with Nicole Handfield"

Stick Figures: Drawing As A Human Practice, book by D.B. Dowd - I'm drooling over this one, folks. (The article I read in this episode is based on this book.)

Drawing On The Right Side of The Brain Betty Edwards

Nancy Kelly's Living Education Retreat - Nicole Handfield and I spoke about Charlotte Mason Drawing Lessons in July of 2019.

Enjoy the reading of and extra commentary on this drawing talk I did last summer at the Morning of Living Ideas retreat. Have a fantastic summer, everyone! 

Mention me @bestowingthebrush in Instagram posts if you or your students work any of the Fésole Club Papers, do any color swatches,  or try any other drawing practice. You know I love to see!

Regularly scheduled IG posts will resume in July and Season 2 of the podcast will start in August. Happy drawing, folks!

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Sources mentioned in paper:

Francis Bate and Juliet Williams of the Parent's Review

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Photo credit: Heather Hall Photography

You get to hear me talk with Nicole Handfield on this episode about the magical practice of the Nature Notebook and drawing in it, along with a few other topics, too. Nicole has generously shared with us a huge stockpile of resources for nature lore books, nature journaling, and some inspiring ideas as to WHY we do this. Listen in!

In A Large Room Retreat: https://www.inalargeroomretreat.com/

What Nicole has written at CMP: http://charlottemasonpoetry.org/author/nicolehandfield/

Nicole on social media:  @handfieldshalom, #keeperofglory on Instagram

The story of writing and compiling “Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition”: https://sageparnassus.com/the-story-of-charlotte-mason-and-grea/

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Send comments, questions, & Fésole Club entries to: [email protected]

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Nicole’s Wonderful recommendations for Nature Lore & Nature Study Resources:

“Handbook of Nature Study” by Anna Botsford Comstock

The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling: https://johnmuirlaws.com/product/the-laws-guide-to-nature-drawing-and-journaling/

John Muir Laws FREE science curriculum:

https://johnmuirlaws.com/journaling-curriculum/

Eyes and No Eyes, Arabella Buckley

“The Year Out of Doors” Dallas Lore Sharp, a series

Your Local Field Guides

A Nature Study Guide & Countryside Rambles, by W.S. Furneaux https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Study-Guide-Yesterdays-Classics/dp/1633340384

“Botany in a Day” by Thomas J. Elpel

“Exploring Nature with Children” - a resource for getting to know your Handbook of Nature Study by Comstock- Not written as a CM method resource (more of a unit study) https://raisinglittleshoots.com/2015/08/14/exploring-nature-with-children-a-complete-year-long-curriculum/

“Handbook of Nature Study” by Dietrich Lange

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Special Thanks to:

Nancy Kelly at https://sageparnassus.com/

Ambelside Online at https://www.amblesideonline.org/

Art Middlekauff at http://charlottemasonpoetry.org/

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Photo credit: Heather Hall Photography

May's Fésole prompt! Want to join this Fésole Club virtual correspondence art class? (THIS may be your LAST CHANCE before you loose time to complete the foundational work from the first two Collingwood papers!) 

***If you haven't already, go back and listen to "The Fésole Club: The Lemon" and do a lemon drawing or two-- reading my critiques on Instagram of the other lemon paintings submitted that month. When you feel confident, move on to number 2: "Boughs of the Branstock" prompt and practice one of those (check IG for comments on others' trees, too) before moving on to this Spring- themed prompt!

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Follow me on Instagram: @bestowingthebrush  Use the videos on my IGTV page to help and guide you! https://www.instagram.com/bestowingthebrush/

Email me: [email protected]

I have Kateri Ewing on the show with me today. We talk about the impact John Ruskin has had on us as artists, about her work and teaching, and about her unique point of view on drawing and learning to see. We touch on many things here- I cannot wait for you to take a listen! Stay until the end for a beautiful reading of one of her poems and for some notes for my listeners participating in this month's Fésole Club! #fesolebranstock

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Find Kateri Ewing's work here:

Personal website: https://www.kateriewing.com/

Her NEW drawing book: "Look Closer, Draw Better: Expert Techniques for Realistic Drawing" 

https://www.amazon.com/Look-Closer-Draw-Better-Techniques/dp/1631596225

Instagram: @kateriewing, @kateriewingart

Courses on Blueprint: https://shop.mybluprint.com/painting/classes/startup-library-painting-with-watercolors/475128

Courses on Craftsy: https://www.kateriewing.com/craftsy

Courses on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kateriewing

Kateri on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kateriewing

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Sources Mentioned:

Ruskin's works: The Elements of Drawing, The Nature of Gothic, The Laws of Fésole, and Unto This Last

Charlotte Mason Volume 1, Home Education

Andrew Wyeth

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Send comments, questions, & Fésole Club entries to: [email protected]

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Photo credit: Heather Hall Photography 

April's prompt! Want to join this month's Fésole Club correspondence class? Go back and listen to "The Fésole Club: The Lemon" and do a lemon drawing or two, in conjunction with reading my critiques on Instagram of the other lemon paintings submitted. When you feel confident, move on to this month's prompt and submit by the deadline for critique!

Step 1:  Listen to my instructions and reading of Collingwood’s second paper on this podcast and be totally inspired.

Step 2:  Gather and ready the materials mentioned.

Step 3: Draw, make mistakes and draw again! Practice is your friend.

Step 4:  Submit your best drawing for critique by emailing it to me at [email protected] between now and April 24th. One submission per person please :)

Step 5: Post your drawings (practice and final) to Instagram, tagged with #fesolebranstock, for me and others to see!

*** Email submissions CLOSE at 6pm CT on Wednesday, April 24th! ***

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READ this paper in these places:

Ambelside Online Transcription of this paper: http://amblesideonline.org/PR/PR14p092FesoleClub.shtml

Archive.org (Redeemer University) PDF: https://ia601205.us.archive.org/8/items/p001-080PRv14n1/p021-027PRv14n1.pdf

Paper 2: "The Boughs of the Branstock"

Google Doc of the collection of links for The Fésole Club, courtesy Emily Kiser:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xEggdH61cWhq6yECVnr6rvZRjBCQBxhQhTctLPewa3k/edit

Further research for you: A Delectable Education Podcast, ep. 98 on Drawing:

http://www.adelectableeducation.com/2017/11/episode-98-drawing/

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Sources mentioned:

Special thanks to:

Caleb Nachtigall, Kateri Ewing, Richele Baburina, Emily Kiser, Kevin  McLeod, Heather Hall, Nicole Handfield, Brittney McGann, Audrey Hockel,  Abe Books, Rachel Lee, Charlotte Mason, W.G. Collingwood, and John  Ruskin

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PC: Heather Hall Photography

"Too Cool," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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In this episode, Emily Kiser and I talk about an often underused or misunderstood tool in drawing lessons in P.U.S. schools - Memory Drawing. Emily did a systematic look through the P. R. programmes and found out just how foundational and crucial this exercise is within a Charlotte Mason education. Listen in to hear about how training in this area harmonizes with and supports many aspects of a person's education and artistic abilities!

Find Emily Kiser's work here:

A Delectable Education podcast: http://www.adelectableeducation.com/

A.D.E.'s episode 98 on drawing here: http://www.adelectableeducation.com/2017/11/episode-98-drawing/

Find A Delectable Education on IG here: @adelectableeducation

Sources Mentioned:

The Teaching of Drawing and Its Place in Education, Juliet Williams (PR Article)

Brush Drawing, Mrs H. Perrin (PR Article)

Fesole Club Papers, Mr. W. G. Collingwood

"Early Drawing Lessons." L. Gore

Charlotte Mason Volume 1, Home Education

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A personal thank you to Emily Kiser, Liz Cottrill and Nicole Williams for all your hard work in helping to bring Charlotte Mason's philosophy and method to more of the world through A Delectable Education and other means. Thank you for your services!

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Photo credit: Heather Hall Photography 

I began reading Mason in 2016, but never had I made a Nature Journal a part of my life until a little over a year ago. It has been a vehicle for change in my life in many ways! Listen in to hear my story...

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Talked of in this show:

@pleinairfinds, Elizabeth Michel, on Instagram- Check her out for a great view into home schooling and drawing and painting in plein air

@naturesketches who is a fellow nature journalist, listener of the show, and maker of wonderful handmade sketchbooks

The Laws of Fésole , John Ruskin

"All Great Art Is Praise," John Ruskin

Scripture on the role of artisans in the building of the Tabernacle: Exodus 31: 1-11https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+31-35&version=ESVUK

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Follow me on Instagram at: @bestowingthebrush   

Follow my Page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bestowingthebrush/

[email protected]

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Intro and outro music: Hard Boiled- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Photo credit: Heather Hall Photography