YMB #151 Five Ways to Do a Picture Study

Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

Pam Barnhill

Kids & Family, Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Your Morning Basket, host Pam Barnhill and co-hosts Dawn Garrett and Laney Homan share insightful strategies for incorporating picture study into your homeschooling routine. This episode discusses the benefits of picture study, such as creating a mental gallery of paintings for children to enjoy as well as highlighting that it's not about learning art history, but rather about observing and appreciating the details in a painting.

Gain practical insights on how to conduct picture study sessions, including the basic method of observing a painting, discussing it with your children, and prompting them to think about and offer their own titles for the artwork. Whether you're new to picture study or looking for fresh ideas to invigorate your homeschooling curriculum, this episode has something for every homeschooling parent.

Key Takeaways:

Emphasize the value of setting a timer for 5 minutes to draw a painting as an exercise in attention, not about recreating the style of the artist.
Highlight the importance of dividing a painting into thirds and showing each part to children, focusing on details like colors, brushstrokes, light, and texture.
Discuss the process of telling a story about a picture to engage with the painting, emphasizing the use of details in the painting to guide the story.
Encourage the community to share more ideas for picture study and other activities in a free homeschool portal.
Stress the significance of building the habit of attention through picture study and other activities like nature study, music, and poetry.
Recommend not revealing the title of the painting initially to encourage critical thinking, and suggest asking questions to prompt children to think about the painting and offer their own titles.

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0:00.0	Are you ready for homeschooling to feel joyful again?
0:08.0	Do you want to build closer relationships?
0:10.0	Remove some of the stress around planning and enjoy learning with your children.
0:15.0	Welcome to your Morning Basket.
0:17.0	I'm Pam Barnhill, a homeschool mom just like you,
0:20.0	and I'm going to show you the magic and
0:22.6	fulfillment that morning basket or morning time can bring to your homeschool.
0:27.1	Grab your coffee or tea and let's get started.
0:33.8	Hi there, and welcome to this episode of the Your Morning Basket podcast. I am joined today by
0:39.6	member success manager Lainey Holman and customer service manager, community manager. She wears
0:46.0	mini hats, Ms. Don Garrett. And we are talking today all about picture study. So this was a class that we actually did at our beach retreat earlier
0:57.9	this year in January when we were down in Gulf Shores, Alabama. We gather together beach retreat.
1:04.1	And I do believe it was probably one of the most popular classes. Don't you guys think?
1:08.4	I think so. And I learned some things, so I was pretty excited about it.
1:13.1	I have used some of the techniques that we went over in the class and when we were at the beach
1:19.4	retreat since I came home and I've loved it. And I think my kids have had a lot of fun with it.
1:25.5	Yeah, it's really nice. So often I think when we hear about
1:28.2	picture study and, you know, when somebody's writing a blog post trying to teach you how to do
1:33.1	picture study or giving you some kind of instruction, maybe through a podcast or something like
1:37.2	that, they want to kind of like lay out the basics. And I think sometimes you get this misconception
1:42.3	in your head that the basics are the only way to do a picture study, right?
1:48.4	And really, in fact, what you're going to learn through the next 20 minutes or so is that there are lots of ways to do a picture study.
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