Arts 4 Schools

This painting lesson course on DVD would be an excellent addition to a high school, private school, or college course. Though it was designed for use at home, it covers basic art concepts, color theory and has actual painting demonstrations. I think it could be an excellent way to teach art to teenagers who are being home schooled.

It is not easy to find good painting DVD lessons – and many are outdated (such as the popular Bob Ross DVDs) or they are  just plain limited to painting one scene.

I think anyone who has an interest in learning to do oil painting would love to use this course: Learn and Master Painting. And if anyone needs a great gift idea for an artistic friend, this could be the best present they ever got!

Painting Lessons on DVD – See review at Painting Lessons

Or if you need an oil painting kit with 12 tubes of oil paint, 6 brushes, palette knife, and medium - it will save you money by purchasing this kit:

Winsor Newton Paints and Brushes are in the supply kit.

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For homeschooling teachers, offering guitar lessons has become much easier. This new course helps the teacher as much as it helps the guitar student.

Learn and Master Guitar Homeschool Student Edition

There is also a homeschool piano course! NO musical skills are needed to use this course. The guitar course offers:

• Guitar lessons on 20 DVDs
• Guitar student workbook with all the songs and exercises that are in the DVDs
• Teacher’s resource DVDs
• Reproducible weekly practice logs
• 68-page teacher’s guide with  comprehensive Scope-and-Sequence
  to help prepare for the student’s lessons
• Jam-Along CDs for students to play along with a real group of musicians to get the “feel” of playing in a band
• Online Community & Student Support

This is a 2-year course and with the resources you’ll know what your child or student should be learning all the way through for each week.

Read more at: Learn and Master Guitar Homeschool Student Edition. And for special price savings read this: money-saving information

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Depending on the school, there may be a full music department that students can learn to play instruments or to sing and read music.

Smaller schools and homeschools often don’t have all the resources to provide a full music program. Arts4Schools is planning on providing information to help those without a music teacher close at hand.

Our first recommendation is to find online resources that have free music lessons – such as guitar lessons for beginners.  Many websites show videos and have online courses that are completely free. For more intense lessons there are courses on DVD or CD. Here is a review that covers a couple of the top guitar courses that can be purchased vs. online courses: DVDs or Online Guitar Lessons?

Another site to look at (which has free lessons posted) is Guitar Fly.

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