🎨Unlock Your Child’s Creativity with an Art Curriculum That Truly Teaches!
- Sarah Perryman
- Sep 2, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Mar 10
"I absolutely love this book. As a former art educator, it hits all the points for beginning art. Even more, the book remembers that there is an actual person on the other side working through it. I love the circling back to the experience, struggles, and success of an artist. It is so easy to feel as if you MUST be good, out of the gate, to do art. Nothing is further from the truth, and this book reiterates the constant practice and evaluation needed. Lots of encouragement, lots of art history, writing prompts, self-evaluation, and actual art skill-building without the need for expensive supplies. An excellent curriculum that anyone can pick up and work through." - Carlin
Have you ever noticed how young kids approach art? They scribble, experiment, and create freely, without worrying if something looks "right." However, something changes when they start following step-by-step drawing lessons. At first, it seems helpful; they learn to copy, follow instructions, and produce something recognizable and even beautiful. But then, something else happens.
They start to believe this is the only way to draw, paint, or create, and they get stuck making the same art over and over again.
Instead of teaching kids to copy, this book helps them understand the why behind art.
With this strong foundation, they’ll gain the confidence to explore any style, medium, or technique without feeling trapped by someone else’s version of “right.”
I’m an artist. Seeing the world through line, shape, light, and proportion has been part of my
daily life for years. When my son began creating, I naturally wanted to pass that way of seeing on to him. Not just the ability to make a nice picture, but the deeper skill artists develop, the ability to look at something and truly understand it.
At first, I assumed I could buy or download lessons to make it easier on me. There are thousands of art worksheets and activity packets available for kids. Surely I could piece together a solid course from those. So I tried.
For weeks, I searched, downloaded, printed, and sorted through art curriculum pages from all over the place. Some were fun. Some had good ideas. But none of them fit together in a meaningful way. One lesson might focus on color mixing, then the next jumps to a craft project, then another introduces perspective without ever building the drawing skills needed to understand it.
What surprised me most was how many materials relied on copying what the writer ot teacher had created. I know from experience that the first major roadblock nearly all my artist friends had to overcome was unlearning what they had been taught because they had been taught to copy. Copying comes later, after you've learned some fundamentals. You can read about that here. Also, there was no real progression. Fortunately, I'm not just a professional artist. I'm a seasoned general education teacher. Patience, progression, and flow are my greatest teaching skills, and they were exactly what was missing from all the resources I tried.
Eventually, I stopped trying to patch together other materials and started building something from the ground up. The goal was simple: create a course that moved in a natural progression, where each lesson prepared the student for the next one. Instead of jumping from disconnected projects, the workbook introduces the fundamental tools artists rely on and gives students time to practice seeing those skills clearly in their own style and artistic level.
What’s Inside:
✅ Open and Go: Open the workbook, and your student can start learning. The lessons build on each other for smooth progress; no extra planning is needed.
✅ Real-Life Art Skills: From basic drawing elements to shading, focal points, and composition, these skills apply not just to art but to careers in design, animation, engineering, and more.
✅ Budget-Friendly & Simple: All you need is this workbook, a pencil, and colored pencils. No expensive supplies or extra purchases required.
✅ Reflecting: Students will create art at their own level, study art history, and write guided reflections.
✅ All-in-One Curriculum: No juggling multiple books or piecing together lessons. This complete program gives your child a structured but flexible way to grow as an artist.
What You’re Buying
🎨 A physical workbook (not a digital download).
📖 325 full-color pages, printed on thick, high-quality paper that withstands drawing and erasing.
📚 Oval lay-flat comb binding with locks, so pages stay secure.
🖍 Designed for ALL AGES with an independent reading level of 5th grade and on.
✏️ Progressive lessons (20-30 minutes each) that build essential art skills.
🏡 Great for homeschooling, classrooms, or independent learners.
📦 Shipped directly from our family to yours.
A note from the Author: One of my favorite surprises with this art book has been seeing where it’s traveled. Besides the hundreds of homeschoolers using it, a handful of co-ops started using it, and then word spread farther than I ever expected!
An entire middle school in Hollywood, California, adopted it for their art program. Hearing from parents, teachers, and co-op leaders who tell me their students are excited to open the book and get started is such a beautiful experience. It’s proof that a simple, creative, open-and-go approach works just as well in a classroom full of kids as it does around a homeschool table. - Sarah P.
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