Picture study, done for you. No art background needed.
Rich picture study for your children. More time for the life you are building together. A ready-to-use Charlotte Mason picture study companion for N.C. Wyeth, six illustrations across twelve lessons.
The video lessons are free on YouTube. The companion booklet prepares the whole term for you.
Watch the playlistWe do the planning. The video lessons and discussion cards are free, and the companion booklet prepares the whole term of artist study for you.
A timeline card, Map Moments with a blank life map and answer key, art words with answer key, memory sketch pages, a color palette, the Masters of Picture Study timeline, full-page prints of all six illustrations, and a biography.
Shop the CompanionThe shared Picture Study discussion cards, used across all artists, free when you join the Kindred Thicket email list.
Get the free cardsYou want your children to know great art. Now you need the practical preparation that helps you teach it well.
Most resources help families decide which artists to study and which illustrations to show. The N.C. Wyeth Picture Study Companion answers the next question: how can I arrive at today’s picture study prepared?
This is not another curriculum or art program. It is implementation-ready support for a term with one artist. The six illustrations have been chosen. The art words have been selected and defined. The places that shaped his life have been mapped. Memory sketch pages, a color palette study, and a timeline card are ready when you need them.
You do not need to complete every page. The companion gives you thoughtfully prepared choices so you can select what serves your child that day. It supports a rich Charlotte Mason education without replacing the looking and the telling with worksheets.
The companion accompanies Kindred Thicket’s free picture study video lessons on YouTube: twelve lessons that alternate between a new illustration, with silent looking, narration, and an art word, and a memory sketch with a Discussion Card. The Picture Study Discussion Cards are free when you join our email list.
Every N.C. Wyeth illustration in this companion was first published between 1911 and 1922, which places it in the public domain in the United States.
We do the planning. The books come alive. Your child does the learning.
Art lessons teach your child to make art with her own hand. Picture study, which families also call artist study, teaches your child to look at great art and truly know it: you spend time with one painting by a master artist, look long and closely, and then tell back what you saw. Our picture study videos are this second kind.
No, for you or for your child. The video carries the whole lesson: a short opening to meet the artist and a moment from the artist's life to mark on a map, time to look at one painting closely in silence, a chance to narrate what you saw, a memory sketch, and one art word.
A timeline card with Wyeth's portrait on the front and his life, his six illustrations, and a link to his artist page on the back; Map Moments with a blank life map and a completed answer key; art words with a blank page and a completed answer key; a memory sketch page for each illustration; a color palette page; the Masters of Picture Study timeline; full-page prints of all six illustrations; and a two-page biography of the artist at the back of the packet.
One More Step, Mr. Hands; On the Island of Earraid; The Astrologer at His Tower; The Passing of Robin Hood; “Speak for Yourself, John”; and Sir Mador's Joust.
No. Watch the lesson together, add a place to the map, write in the art word, sketch from memory, and save the color palette for the final week. The companion gives you prepared choices so you can select what serves your child that day.
The picture study video lessons on YouTube, and the shared Picture Study Discussion Cards, free when you join the email list.
We do the planning. The books come alive. Your child does the learning.
Last updated October 27, 2026
