TOS Crew Review - See the Light

See the Light is a company that makes learning and teaching art at home easy by offering both DVD's and downloads of art classes taught by a Master Artist. This review is specifically for their Art Class curriculum, although they offer other DVDs in art instruction, as well. Requiring only basic, easy-to-find art supplies, the classes are engaging, informative, and best of all - incorporate Biblical teaching and faith-encouraging dialogue into each lesson.

Each DVD has 4 lessons, and each lesson is about 15 minutes long. The way we used our DVD was to watch a lesson, do some practice together, and then the boys spend about 15 minutes each day practicing what they had learned from the DVD, spending one week on each lesson. Using it this way, each DVD has a month's worth of lessons on it, so the entire set of 9 DVDs would cover a 36-week school year.

I'm going to admit one of my "I'm not the perfect homeschooler" faults here - I've never used anything to formally teach drawing and art to the children. Oh, I've tried, but never found one that works. Until receiving this product, that is!

Each lesson is very easily explained, not too long or wordy, and the demonstrations are clear and easy to follow. The instructor, Pat Knepley is engaging, pleasant, and encouraging. I've always felt a little discouraged by my lack of artistic skills, but these art lessons gave me a lot more confidence! I also appreciated that there weren't any fancy supplies needed, so no trying to hunt down obscure items at specialty stores!

Not sure if you they'll work for you? See the Light makes it easy for you to find out! You can order a free DVD, or watch the first 3 lessons free! I love it when a company provides a good sample for their potential customers to really get a feel for whether their product will work for them!

You can get 1 year's worth of Art Lessons (9 DVDs with 4 lessons each) for just $99.99. Here is a PDF outlining what skills each DVD covers. Or, you can opt for an online subscription to the art curriculum - they email you 4 new lessons each month (and you still have access to all of the previous months' lessons, too) for $10 a month (for a total of $90 for the entire curriculum).

And, as always, be sure to find out what other TOS Crew members thought by checking out their reviews at the TOS Homeschool Crew blog!

Disclaimer: I was given this product specifically for the purpose of reviewing here on my blog as a member of TOS Homeschool Crew. I received no other compensation in regards to this review.