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Today is our FINAL #DailyDraw. We have been here e

Today is our FINAL #DailyDraw. We have been here every weekday, through holidays and bank holidays, for over three months, bringing our free online art classes to help our young artists through the lockdown and homeschooling. Today we have returned to Hogwarts with a Snitch and a final painting of Professor Dumbledore. THIS IS OUR 136TH #DAILYDRAW!!
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I am so proud of our team and how we have lived by our values over the last few, very challenging months. As we move forward to launch our Franchise across the UK and to launch a new and exciting Online Adult Art Course (more news to come very soon!) we are facing the future with confidence. .
On a personal note, I have worked with my eldest daughter, Elizabeth age 18, on every single of the 136 videos. She has presented every Thursday with the 'Draw with the Grandparents' and been my rock and support for 14 weeks, day in day out. She heads to Edinburgh University in September and this time together has been a precious gift. I will treasure the memories, the way we have kept each other going, the frequent (mainly dog-related) laughter and the occasional tears when we just felt too knackered to film another. Special times and our Covid effort, thank you my darling girl x
#InThisTogether
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Today is our very last 'Draw with the Grandparents

Today is our very last 'Draw with the Grandparents' #DailyDraw. We have some lovely umbrellas to draw on this sunny day!
A HUGE thank you to Elizabeth who has created these very special Thursday #DailyDraw episodes. She has done a fantastic job. Elizabeth has also worked every day for more than 3 months to make sure that we have 2 free art classes going out to all our young artists. As well as presenting Thursdays classes, she has been camera woman for EVERY one of the 136 classes we have produced. She has helped, advised and kept Joanne going every day. We simply couldn't have done the #DailyDraw without her. THANK YOU ELIZABETH!!
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Here in Scotland we are still unable to travel mor

Here in Scotland we are still unable to travel more than 5 miles from home. As restrictions lift elsewhere I’m avoiding resentment by making a list of where I will go once we can travel further.
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This painting, Kircudbright Street, is by Scottish artist Samual Peploe. Kircudbright is right up there on my list of trips I will make. This beautiful small market town is in Dumfries and Galloway. It is said that it was the quality of the light that brought many painters, including Peploe, to Kirkcudbright in the late 19th century. The town became a close-knit colony of artists, all working together at the pursuit they all lived for. Artists such as Charles Oppenheimer, W.S.MacGeorge, Bill Robson, David Gauld, Sir James Guthrie, Robert Sivell, Chris J Fergusson and William Mouncey all had a strong connection with the town. .
Freedom to explore again feels closer every day, until then the paintings will have to suffice 😊
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The Little Art School Team are working hard to mak

The Little Art School Team are working hard to make our studios safe for all our students to return in September. We would usually be running holiday clubs through the summer but are unable to with present restrictions. Therefore (trumpet fanfare!) we have created special FREE ONLINE HOLIDAY CLUBS for all our artists.
We will release a Holiday Club from our archives every week, on a Wednesday, throughout the Scottish Summer School Holidays. Make sure that you are subscribed to keep up to date with each Holiday Club release.
Each of these lessons will be longer than our DailyDraws, so your children can take their time and enjoy developing their skills with us. Please Like, Love, Comment and Share so that this post reaches as many of our followers as possible, thank you!
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We are in the final stretch of our #DailyDraw free

We are in the final stretch of our #DailyDraw free online art lessons and we have been listening to what our young artists want! Today from 11am we have Bowser and Donkey Kong. Go to our YouTube channel to access the free art lessons (link in bio or search Little Art School. Perfect way to spend some creative time for children.
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Today's #DailyDraw is ADORABLE!!! We have 'Lady an

Today's #DailyDraw is ADORABLE!!! We have 'Lady and the Tramp'. We think you will love this one!! Share with dog lovers and do let us see your paintings and drawings. Remember to SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel to be sure of keeping up to date with all new free online art lessons! Link also in bio or just search Little Art School on YouTube
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Today is the official birthday of Her Majesty Quee

Today is the official birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, so our historic painting choice at the Little Art School is this majestic painting of the Queen, painted in 1955 by Pietro Annigoni.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This portrait of the 28 year old Queen was popular with the public and liked by The Queen but criticised for its romantic treatment. Some academics didn’t like it as it was about Elizabeth's role as the monarch, not Elizabeth as a person.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I actually really love this portrait. It makes me think of the heavy burden of duty that our monarch had, even as a very young woman. Now, 65 years on, after a lifetime of constant commitment to her country, it seems even more meaningful.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In a 2013 article for The Daily Telegraph on the difficulties of painting Elizabeth, Harry Wallop wrote that the 1955 portrait has subsequently been "deemed to be the most successful of all" as it "...makes no attempt to unearth the inner life of the young woman. She stands aloof, regal but none the less a beautiful 28-year-old. It is undoubtedly a portrait of a queen." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Today's #DailyDraw is these two gorgeous cats from

Today's #DailyDraw is these two gorgeous cats from the movie 'Aristocats'. Designed especially for two special Little Art School ladies: Eleanor, one of our lovely assistants, who has just turned 18, and one of our students, Heather, who has just got two adorable kittens!
Hope you love these two free online art lessons, find them at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLittleArtSchool
and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Eleanor!
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It's Friday Fun Day at the Little Art School #Dail

It's Friday Fun Day at the Little Art School #DailyDraw. Today we have two fun paintings based on the movie 'Monster's Inc'. We hope you enjoy them!
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Please subscribe to our channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLittleArtSchool and share with friends and family to spread the joy of drawing together when we are all staying home.
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We'd love to see your children's Monsters! PLEASE post in the comments; we all are so thrilled when we see the work you are doing at home and it makes the hours we are spending creating the #DailyDraw absolutely worth it!! .
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Today is our 100th #DailyDraw!! We have two really

Today is our 100th #DailyDraw!! We have two really special free online art lessons available from 11am on our YouTube Channel; Winnie the Pooh and Poohsticks, based on the classic illustrations of the much-loved books.

We would love to see your drawings but also to have you views in comments on what the #DailyDraw has meant to you and your children. We hope so much that it has provided a creative break for children and a little help to parents everywhere.

Please SHARE and COMMENT! It helps us so much and gives us so much encouragement.

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Special 10% Discount for all our Insta Followers a

Special 10% Discount for all our Insta Followers at the Little Art School in-line ship until 7th June. Just enter code INSTA10 at checkout for 10% off full order.
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You can find our shop on our website, link in bio, or go to https://the.little.art.school.myshopify.com/discount/INSTA10

Today's #DailyDraw art class on our YouTube channe

Today's #DailyDraw art class on our YouTube channel is based on the film 'Beauty and the Beast'. We have two adorable drawings; Lumiere and Cogsworth the clock. When I was doing a bit of research I found this stunning book cover, by the artist and illustrator, Walter Crane. .
This book cover feels like pure 'art nouveau' magic. Crane was initially influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite painting movement, and was later collaborator and disciple of William Morris as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Crane is considered one of the pioneers of the Art Nouveau movement and was one of the most noted children's book illustrators of his era.
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I fell in love with drawing as a child through illustrations in children's books, did you? Is there a book which you remember being mesmerised by the illustrations, where they helped to form characters in your mind? I'd love to know! @littlelazypheasant
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Pokemon today on the #DailyDraw; we hope it helps

Pokemon today on the #DailyDraw; we hope it helps any children reluctant to return to homeschooling to pick up a pencil!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Thank you for your lovely messages yesterday. As we all stay apart it means so much to know that our #DailyDraw is helping children to keep navigating their way through these strange times. We hope they love Pokemon, we would LOVE to see their paintings and drawings!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Looking for a little challenge this Bank Holiday?

Looking for a little challenge this Bank Holiday? Why not follow one of our step by step free art class on our YouTube channel?? We released this lovely Puss in Boots class week; perfect for a Bank Holiday afternoon!
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The VE day celebrations 2 weeks ago have sparked s

The VE day celebrations 2 weeks ago have sparked so much thinking about the Second World War for me, in particular about the resilience people must have needed to survive 6 years of life not just on hold, but also living with fear and danger.
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This painting, 'Ruby Loftus Screwing the Beech Ring' was painted by Laura Knight in 1943. At the outbreak of the 2nd World War, Laura Knight was asked to work as a war artist. Her initial task was to design posters to help to recruit land girls. Her next commissions were to paint portraits of women who had been commended for their service, she wrote to a friend that she was ‘proud of the English spirit’ and she felt her work as an artist was important to the war effort. Her portraits of these women showed strong, brave and competent individuals and highlighted the wide variety of roles that women were playing in the war effort.
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This famous portrait of Ruby Loftus shows a woman who had worked as a shop girl before the war, she is painted carrying out a complex task as part of an engineering team, a job it would have been thought impossible for a woman to do before the war. Laura’s painting tells us a story and shows in great detail not just Ruby but the factory environment she is working in .
The painting was first shown on 30 April 1943 at the Royal Academy and the next day was reproduced in eight British newspapers and was produced in a poster version, it was painted on location in the factory and won the Royal Academy ‘Picture of the Year’ that year.
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