Picture study resources
MA web site article “Notes on Picture Study”
Prep Level (Kinder)
An Alphabet in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
Numbers in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
Animals in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
Level 1B
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
Katie and the Impressionists by James Mayhew 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 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 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 ($) SCM Monet Picture portfolio (printed) for purchase Optional Picture Books Linnea in Monet’s Garden by Christina Björk, Claude Monet: The Painter Who Stopped the Trains by P. I. Maltbie, Monet Paints a Day by Julie Danneberg, The Magical Garden of Claude Monet by Laurence Anholt Level 1A Year 1: Impressionists
Term 1: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Term 2: Edgar Degas
Term 3: Claude Monet
1A Year 2: Post-Impressionists
Paul Cezanne: A Painter’s Journey by Robert Burleigh, Cezanne and the Apple Boy by Laurence Anholt Free printable Van Gogh picture study packet from Cottage Press (scroll down for Van Gogh) Printable Van Gogh picture study packet and prints ($) from A Humble place SCM Van Gogh Picture Study Portfolio ($) Camille and the Sunflowers or van Gogh and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau by Michelle Markel, Seurat and La Grande Jatte by Robert Burleigh Term 1: Paul Cezanne
Term 2: Vincent Van Gogh
(or Camille and the Sunflowers; the second title may be the same book reprinted under a new title.)Term 3: Henri Rousseau and Georges Seurat
Level 2
Level 2 Year 1: Gothic and Renaissance Art
SCM Fra Angelico Picture Study Portfolio ($) A Boy Named Giotto by Paolo Guarnieri, The Glorious Impossible by Madeleine L’Engle 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 ParilloTerm 1: Giotto di Bondone and Saint Fra Angelico
Term 2: Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli
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:
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{I plan to add to this.}
