Back in January our family went to see the Van Gogh Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum and loved it. So when I was asked by See The Light if I would review the Van Gogh Sunflowers project, I excitedly said yes! While I knew that the project dvd by See The light might be a little difficult for my younger two kids (it is recommended for ages 10+), I knew my oldest daughter could do it. When the dvd arrived, I don’t know who was more excited, me or my daughter!
Sarah tracing out her design
The Sunflowers dvd is divided into 4 lessons. Each lesson is about 25 minutes long. The first lesson, Pat Knepley begins talking about Vincent Van Gogh and a little bit of his life and how be began drawing and painting. Van Gogh had a troubled life, but Pat explained about his life in such a way, that truly just shared about his talent and gift of drawing and painting.
Sarah working on the vase.
She began the picture, by doing a basic composition or drawing lightly the outline of what the picture would be. Once she did that, they began the task of filling in with color in the short stroke technique that Van Gogh used in some of his paintings. This was just a basic color to get the outline of the vase, flowers and leaves.
Sarah listening and watch the dvd while filling in some lines.
Once she finished that, she then started adding in more colors to fill the picture out and blending in the colors together.
Sarah working on the leaves.
My daughter truly had a wonderful time with this DVD. Van Gogh is one of her favorite artists and it just helped her to understand Van Gogh a little more, by attempting a technique that he used. When I first suggested her doing this DVD, she didn’t think she could do it. My daughter is very talented with a pencil and paper, but she has never tried any other art medium like this before.
working on blending in the colors.
Once she started, Pat Kenpley gave my daughter the confidence that she needed to where now, she is looking forward to trying different mediums out. I also love how in every lesson, Pat brings out her bible and reads scripture from it. There is always a bible lesson in every art lesson that See The Light does. I, for one, am very thankful for a company standing firm on the word of God.
Listening to final instructions on the dvd.
I asked my daughter what her thoughts were on the Van Gogh Project and this is what she said:
“What I really enjoyed about the Van Gogh project was the techniques given in the DVD. They were clearly explained, and I understood how to execute the techniques to finish the sunflowers.The information on Van Gogh’s life was also well explained, and I definitely want to look more into his life as a painter. Honestly, I had never used oil pastels before, and I now I prefer to use them over other mediums. The lessons really helped expand my artistic abilities, and I look forward to learning more!”
Sarah’s final picture of her interpretation of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting.
As you can tell, my daughter finished and I think did an amazing job. I am truly proud of her and can’t wait to see the other See The Light Project DVD’s that she does. We have already ordered 4 more and I do plan on blogging about those as well. My daughter’s goal is to attend an Art College and we plan on using some of these finished pictures as part of her portfolio.
See The Light has an amazing deal for you all, until March 24th. You can get the Ultimate Crossmaker Set for only $25.00 (regularly $34.99). This includes free shipping in the US. The set includes The Crossmaker DVD, CD of music and audio stories, Black Light with batteries, Fluorescent Chalk and Fluorescent pencils. Just enter the discount code word, “CROSS” into the box when you go to check out and hit APPLY!
Now on to some great news! See The Light art curriculum, has graciously offered to give one of my readers an Ultimate Crossmaker Set! All you have to do is just leave me a comment, telling me what Easter means to you! This giveaway will end March 17th, 2013.
**Update** Congrats to Vicki Arnold for being chosen the winner of the Ultimate Crossmaker Set from See The Light!
**Disclosure Policy: I was given this DVD to review, but all thoughts and opinions are my own. This post contains affiliate links.
To me, easter is a time to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, and all he has done for us.
Easter, to me, is a time to reflect on the immense sacrifice that brought the world freedom and peace with God.
Easter is a time to celebrate Christ’s death and resurrection.
Easter is a celebration of life and renewal. All of God’s promises are given life – we truly have the opportunity to begin anew with each and every day, but Easter Day proves that God’s promises are true, for everyone.
Easter is the season we celebrate new life that has been offered freely to us by the death and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ!
Easter is the set aside time to honor Jesus Christ’s sacrifice. 🙂
Congrats Vicki!! You won the Ultimate Crossmaker Set from See The Light!! I will be emailing you shortly!
To me, Easter is a time of relfection, remembering the sacrific Christ made so that we can have a relationship with God. It’s a time to remember that we are made for this world, that we are new creatures, and that we have a higher calling.
I love celebrating the ultimate sacrifice and the new life we have because of that sacrifice. I try to do lots of crafts and projects with my kids leading up to Easter and this would be a great addition!
Easter – a time to reflect the newness and inner beauty that our children, family, friends and others have to offer. To me it’s a time to celebrate with my children. We love coloring those eggs, sometimes too many, hiding them, making crafts and cooking up a storm for all to enjoy.
To my family, Easter means reconnecting with relatives and rejoicing over Christ’s resurrection and promises to us.
Easter is a great chance to teach my kids about God’s love and to do some fun crafts!
A time to reflect on Jesus sacrifice & that because of what He did my sins were paid for !
OH WOW! It’s absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Well done!!
This Easter, as with others with my children, I want them to understand, and myself as well, the brevity of our sinfulness, how desperately lost we are without what receiving and believing what Christ has done for us!
Spring is my favorite season of the year and Easter is my favorite holiday. Easter is about celebrating his resurrection and our new life in Him, because of Him. Spring and Easter are both about new life and because Jesus died for our sins, we have new life.
Easter is a gift of new life to us because Jesus loved us enough to die for us. 🙂
Easter is one of my favorite holidays. It stands above Christmas to me because it is the day that Jesus ensured my place in Heaven. He went before to prepare my place.
I just finished a review for See The Light – we love their products! Easter for us is a time to remember our Lord, His Resurrection and the hope we are given. We call it Resurrection Sunday and are finding new ways to celebrate the life of our Savior.
We are Messianic… so we do not celebrate Easter, we celebrate Pesach / Passover. It is a time of covenants with a loving Father and Him being faithful to His people, taking them out of Egypt and out of bondage. Of taking them into the wilderness, a place of protection and a place where His people got to see Him perform mighty miracles… and yet they still lost their way. With Aaron creating the golden calf while Moses is on the mount with G-d! Yeshua (Jesus) gave His life for us… He is the Door that leads us to Abba. Notice where the blood was put? He always pointed us to the Father! So, this is a time of cleaning out the leaven in our homes and our hearts. Of walking out His will in my life. It’s a time to teach my children what the Exodus was about, what Pesach was about, what it means to be grafted into those promises / covenants of Israel and who Yeshua is… our Messiah.
Easter means celebrating my Savior Jesus’ Resurrection & spending time with family.
That’s kind of a loaded question, theologically. 😉 The simple answer is that there is a certain day on which we celebrate the Resurrection in a special way, even though we celebrate it every Sunday as well.
Easter to my family and I means that we have been blessed with a loving Lord and heavenly Father who sacrificed everything for humanity. Personally, we use it as a time of reflection and inspiration on our spiritual journey.
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Easter is a celebration of the Resurrection and a living Lord!
We are mindful of Christ’s death and resurrection every day but on Easter it is a time for us to really reflect on grace, hope and life.