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Picture Study Resources – All Levels

Picture study resources

MA web site article “Notes on Picture Study”

Introduction to Picture Study

Prep Level (Kinder)

Look through the pictures with your children once a week, count or find the items noted.

An Alphabet in Art by Lucy Micklethwait

Numbers in Art by Lucy Micklethwait

Animals in Art by Lucy Micklethwait

Level 1B

“Come Look With Me” Series by Gladys Blizzard – choose any three books:

Enjoying Art With Children

Exploring Landscape Art With Children

Animals in Art

World of Play

These books include some background information together with some points to look for in each picture. Study one picture each week.

Level 1A 

Level 1A Year 1: Impressionists

Katie and the Impressionists by James Mayhew

Term 1: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Free Printable Renoir Picture Study in the Facebook group 

Free printable picture study packets from Cottage Press (scroll down for Renoir)

Optional Picture Books

The Girl with the Watering Can by Ewa Zadrzynska

Term 2: Edgar Degas

Free Printable Degas Picture Study in our Facebook community 

Optional Picture Books

Meet Edgar Degas by Anne Newlands,

Chasing Degas by Eva Montanari,

Degas and the Little Dancer by Laurence Anholt,

I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina by Anna Pavlova

Term 3: Claude Monet

Free printable picture study packet by Cottage Press (scroll down for Monet)

Free Printable Degas Picture Study in our Facebook community

Monet picture study with background and notes from A humble place to download ($)

SCM Monet Picture portfolio (printed) for purchase

Optional Picture Books

Linnea in Monet’s Garden by Christina Björk,

Claude Monet: The Painter Who Stopped the Trains by P. I. Maltbie,

Monet Paints a Day by Julie Danneberg,

The Magical Garden of Claude Monet by Laurence Anholt

1A Year 2: Post-Impressionists

Term 1: Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne: A Painter’s Journey by Robert Burleigh,

Cezanne and the Apple Boy by Laurence Anholt

Term 2: Vincent Van Gogh

Free printable Van Gogh picture study packet from Cottage Press (scroll down for Van Gogh)

Printable Van Gogh picture study packet and prints ($) from A Humble place

SCM Van Gogh Picture Study Portfolio ($) 

Camille and the Sunflowers or van Gogh and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt
(or Camille and the Sunflowers; the second title may be the same book reprinted under a new title.)

Term 3: Henri Rousseau and Georges Seurat

The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau by Michelle Markel,

Seurat and La Grande Jatte by Robert Burleigh

Level 2

Level 2 Year 1: Gothic and Renaissance Art

Term 1: Giotto di Bondone and Saint Fra Angelico

SCM Fra Angelico Picture Study Portfolio ($) 

A Boy Named Giotto by Paolo Guarnieri,

The Glorious Impossible by Madeleine L’Engle

Term 2: Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli

SCM Botticelli Picture Study Portfolio ($) 

SCM Da Vinci Picture Study Portfolio ($) 

https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-da-vinci/

Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci by Gene Barretta,

Leonardo and the Flying Boy by Laurence Anholt,

Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions: You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson

 

Term 3: Michelangelo Buonarotti and Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)

 

Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be by Jane Sutcliffe, Michelangelo’s Surprise by Tony Parillo

 

Level 2 Year 2: English Romantics

 

Term 1: George Stubbs and Thomas Gainsborough

 

SCM Gainsborough Picture Study Portfolio ($) 

https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-gainsborough/

 

Free printable guides on our FB community.

 

Term 2: Joseph Mallord William Turner

 

Free Turner printable on our Facebook community

 

Printable Constable Picture study from A Humble Place (free): 

https://ahumbleplace.com/product/jmw-turner-a-free-charlotte-mason-picture-study-aid/

 

SCM Turner  Picture Study Portfolio ($) 

https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-turner/

 

Term 3: John Constable

 

SCM Constable Picture Study Portfolio ($) 

https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-constable/

 

Free printable Constable guide on our Facebook community

 

Printable Constable Picture study from A Humble Place (free): https://ahumbleplace.com/product/john-constable-a-free-charlotte-mason-picture-study-aid/

 

Suggested extra resource: Art Fraud Detective by Anna Nilsen

 

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Level 3

 

Level 3 Year 1: Realism

Term 1: Jean-Francois Millet

SCM Millet Picture Study Portfolio ($) https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-millet/

Term 2: James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Printable Whistler Picture study from A Humble Place (free): 

https://ahumbleplace.com/product/whistler-a-free-charlotte-mason-picture-study-aid/

 

SCM Whistler Picture Study Portfolio ($) https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-whistler/

Term 3: John Singer Sargent

Alternative: American Artists:
Replace Millet with Mary Cassatt

SCM Rubens Picture Study Portfolio ($) https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-cassatt/

 

Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Painter by Lois V. Harris, A Child’s Book of Lullabies with paintings by Mary Cassatt

Level 3 Year 2: Baroque Art

Term 1: Peter Paul Rubens

SCM Rubens Picture Study Portfolio ($) https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-rubens/

Term 2: Rembrandt van Rijn

Term 3: Diego Velazquez

SCM Velasquez Picture Study Portfolio ($) https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-velazquez/

Level 4 – One 20th century artist to be studied each term:
Term 1: Henri Matisse

The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse by Patricia MacLachlan, Matisse’s Garden by Samantha Friedman, Henri’s Scissors by Jeanette Winter, Colorful Dreamer: The Story of Artist Henri Matisse by Marjorie Blain Parker, A Bird or Two: A Story About Henri Matisse by Bijou Le Tord

Term 2: Pablo Picasso

And Picasso Painted Guernica by Alain Serres (pre-read for younger children), The Boy Who Bit Picasso by Antony Penrose

Term 3: Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall: What Colour Is Paradise? by Thomas David and Elisabeth Lemke, Dreamer from the Village by Michelle Markel, Self-Portrait With Seven Fingers: The Life of Marc Chagall in Verse by J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen, Journey on a Cloud by Veronique Massenot

Selected paintings and a discussion: https://journeydestination.org/2014/06/25/picture-study-inspired-by-marc-chagall/ 

Alternate/Additional artist: Mary Cassatt https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios-cassatt/ 

https://www.classicalcharlottemason.com/picture-study (Matisse, O’Keefe, Picasso)

 

General resources:

 

Printable (some free):

 

https://ahumbleplace.com/cmpsa-all/

 

A good number of printable PDFs with background info. Some non western.

 

https://cottagepresspublishing.net/picture-study/

 

Cottage press has several printable PDF collections of artwork.

 

Resources to purchase:

 

SCM picture portfolios: High quality prints with a short bio of artist and instructions for picture study.

 

Riverbend Press: High quality reprints of a selection of pictures by an artist. http://www.riverbendpress.com/shop-artist-prints

 

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Book resources: 

 

Art for Children, Raboff:

 

I (Amanda) LOVE this series by Ernest Raboff. It has really enhanced our picture study. Here is a list and some inside page examples.

 

https://reshelvingalexandria.com/pub/series/ernest-raboff-art-for-children

 

Mike Venezia, Getting to know the worlds’s greatest artists:

 

https://www.rainbowresource.com/prodlist?subject=Art+%2F+Crafts/16&category=Getting%20to%20Know%20the%20World%27s%20Greatest%20Artists/5128

 

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