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Courtney Sanford
Artist, Author, Teacher
NEW SITE: www.delightfulartco.com

Online Art Classes

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Student Spotlight:
From Art 2, Make Your Mark

The Milkmaid's Bread Pudding

The Milkmaid's Bread Pudding

In Vermeer's "Milkmaid" you see several loaves of bread, milk, and pieces of torn bread...is she preparing bread pudding? It's a Dutch...

Paint Your Way Through Marvelous to Behold

Paint Your Way Through Marvelous to Behold

I'm getting all set up for a new class! This will be an online summer intensive made up of Challenge II Directors and a couple of...

Big Eared Bunny: Art from the Kitchen

Big Eared Bunny: Art from the Kitchen

I created this fun paper mâché bunny with things I found in my kitchen and you can, too! It was the week before Easter and I was in...

Matisse-Inspired Poster Design

Matisse-Inspired Poster Design

In my Art+Design class, we are starting to do some applied design projects. We began with graphic design and started with a poster...

Exploring Space...Negative Space

Exploring Space...Negative Space

Have you seen the movie, "Karate Kid"? This kid wants to learn karate, and Mr. Miyagi says he will teach him and sends the kid out to...

Shades and Shadows

Shades and Shadows

Are you ready to make the leap from 2-Dimensions to 3-Dimensions? It's not as hard as you'd think! In this lesson, I helped students turn...

Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms

Today I taught a class about creating depth using shadows and highlights using a VanGogh composition as our inspiration. I was going to...

Color Wheel Creativity

Color Wheel Creativity

To learn about color, I had my Art&Design class create their own color wheels out of only three colors of paint: Magenta (a bright pink),...

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About Me

I was a writer, graphic designer, and art teacher until I had kids...then I added "classical educator" to the list of things I do. I really embraced the homeschool life studying Latin and reading classics and taking my kids on "field trips" to Colorado, Austria, Germany, and Mexico. I helped develop curriculum in English grammar, cursive writing, drawing, and math. I traveled and spoke to other homeschoolers encouraging them and giving practical teaching advice.

I taught lots of classes for homeschoolers, but my favorite was Western Cultural History. I was really inspired by Francis Schaeffer and Nancy Pearcey. Their books really helped me understand the flow of history and see it in art.

When the shut down happened, I moved my art classes online, thinking it'd be temporary...but it actually worked really well and I was able to reach students and parents all over the country, Canada, Hawaii, and Japan! We built relationships and painted our way through art history online and had a fabulous time.

In the first year of online classes, students had to download a print the handouts they needed for class. That turned out to be a lot of trouble, so I put all the handouts into a book so they would have everything handy for class. I included our devotion and worldview summary and instructions for the art projects.

Grace Martin joined me in the fall of 2021 to teach "Draw Your Way Into the Woods" and I wrote a book for her class, too! Next year, we plan to have a second class for her to teach called, "Paint Your Way to the Beach: acrylic painting."

I homeschooled my three kids. The oldest is in dental school at UNC-Chapel Hill and will serve in the Air Force after graduating. My daughter is the Director of Student Engagement at Bryan College and she's working on her MBA. The youngest is completing Challenge Four with Classical Conversations.

My dog Zoey is by my side during my classes and usually talks to us in the evening class asking for treats. Morning students often hear Fabio, the rooster, crow a little.

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