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We help you love teaching art so that you can give your children all the benefits of art and creativity in their education.

Teaching art can feel overwhelming, but I’m confident that, no matter what your background is, YOU can teach art! In this weekly podcast, you’ll receive help with the details and the big picture of teaching art as my guests and I discuss topics like:

  • Fun art project ideas
  • What to teach in an art lesson and how to teach it
  • Where to buy art supplies, and what supplies I suggest
  • Scripts for explaining hard concepts to students
  • The Elements of Art
  • The Classical model of education, and
  • What it means to live a creative life

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Nov 27, 2017

You can find the written version of this blog post at: http://ridgelightranch.com/teach-tracing-art-curriculum/

You can access all the FREE downloads mentioned in this episode at RidgeLightRanch.com/tracing

Here's the Highlights:

Incorporate tracing to:

  • Save time
  • Fill a skill-gap
  • Ease frustration

To Trace Mindfully,...


Nov 20, 2017

Here's the Highlights:

Get your Holiday Tracing Freebies at RidgeLightRanch.com/tracing 

The Top 7 Reasons to Teach Tracing:

  1. Tracing is a great way to learn to draw.
  2. Tracing can free you from needing a teacher
  3. Tracing can help simplify a complicated work of art.
  4. Tracing has been shown to improve other skills.
  5. Tracing...


Nov 14, 2017

In this podcast episode, we discuss the Ridge Light Ranch blog post about Handwriting and Art (Listen to it on Podcast Episode 7 or read it on the blog post).

For extended Highlights, check out the correlating episode 8 blog post

Here's the Highlights:

-Writing things by hand has many life benefits like...


Nov 6, 2017

You can find the written version of this blog post at: 

http://ridgelightranch.com/improve-memory-confidence-grades/ 

 

Here's the Highlights:

  • The benefits for handwriting
  • How to improve handwriting
  • Handwriting is an art form
  • Practice, Practice, Practice!

 

Things I mention is this episode: