How to Earn High School Fine Art Credit with Masterpiece Society

It’s time for putting together your homeschooling high school plan. Will you include a fine art? Even if your state doesn’t require it, fine arts round out a high schooler’s four year plan well. How to Earn High School Fine Art Credit with Masterpiece Society talks about what fine art looks like in the high school years and features The Masterpiece Society membership as a way to fulfill that credit requirement.

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We’ve been using the art instruction materials from The Masterpiece Society for over 12 years!

When they added the Art School courses to their line up, I knew we could use them for high school visual art credit.

Masterpiece Society Studio is hands down one of the best investments we made during our high school years!

Fine Art High School Credit

Does your teen study fine art in high school?

Some areas require it and others do not.

Well rounded-ness is a highly sought after commodity in the college admission world.

Does your student take time to be creative?

You can achieve fine art credits through:

• music theory and learning and instrument
• voice-lessons and performance
• dance
• graphic arts- computer graphics
• digital art- like pixel art
• visual art- through other media like sculpture, paints, pencils, etc

Today, we’ll dig a little deeper into a resource for visual art.

Visual Art Credit in High School

Our daughter had 5 credits of visual art on her high school transcript in addition to her 5 credits of sewing and design.

Largely these visual art courses were based on resources we put together.

Rebecca learns best when she is in charge of her learning.

So, any outsourcing we do is with this in mind.

Here’s a brief look at some of the criteria we used to make up her course:

• Improve techniques
• Learn new techniques
• Practice both new and old skills
• Apply skills to projects
• Repeat

Benefits of a Masterpiece Society Membership

The courses inside The Masterpiece Society help us to achieve our visual art goals in high school.

Take a look at the library of courses:

• Mixed Media for all Seasons– a chance to work with inspiring projects based on seasonal aesthetics
• Art School 101– full courses on technique and theory in the areas of Drawing, Watercolor, Acrylics & Oils, and Pastels. This is where the meat of the high school instruction is. You start with Drawing 101 as a foundation before painting in other media.
• Mixing with the Masters– a series of courses on copying the great artists in many time periods and styles. Honestly, these might be my favorite behind Drawing 101, but I’m looking forward to Watercolor 101 as well.
• Masterpiece Moms– which include lessons and virtual paint parties for moms and teens. So much to enjoy!
• LiterARTure Lessons– that combine art with literature. So inspiring even for middle grade novels and up.
• Art through the Ages– hands on art history
• Art Appreciation– rotating resources for studying artists. You can download these to use later before they rotate out.
• Nature Journaling with Heather Woodie– that’s right! My nature journaling courses come with a Masterpiece Society membership. Woot! That’s all six modules!
• Process Art, Abstract, & Creativity Prompts– so many lessons to choose from
• Masterpiece Moms– including hand lettering and virtual paint parties!

These are just the courses for teens. If you have younger children who haven’t arrived at high school yet, there is a whole set of resources for them along with an earlier start on mixed media.

Three Ways to Join Masterpiece Society

There are now three different levels of the Masterpiece Society Studio:

• Studio Lite– available any time to stream and the lessons refresh each month
• Studio Kids OR Studio Teens– access to all the lessons at the level that you choose and new lessons that get published, which is a great choice if you don’t have a wide age range you are teaching
• Studio Premium– access to it ALL, everything in the lesson vault is yours at this level, including anything new

There is even a lifetime Masterpiece Society Studio Membership available!

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More about Homeschooling High School Fine Art

Teaching creative teens is a BIG part of what we do!

Enjoy some other posts on homeschooling high school with creative teens.

• Scheduling Time for Creative Pursuits– how to fit creative time into a busy school schedule
• How to Apply for Art & Design School– the introduction to portfolio work and how to use it for college admission
• Homeschooling High School by Design– planning the high school years with your teen.
• Homeschooling for College by Design– all the ins and outs of preparing for college admission, including details on how to put the portfolio together like portfolio photography, etc. This course includes a transcript builder which customized an official transcript for you.