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 Norman Rockwell, six paintings 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 paintings, 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 paintings to show. The Norman Rockwell 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 paintings 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 painting, 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 Norman Rockwell painting in this companion was first published between 1916 and 1926, which places it in the public domain in the United States. We study only his early, public-domain work, and we reproduce the paintings faithfully, adding only what helps your family look more closely.
We do the planning. The books come alive. Your child does the learning.
Absolutely. Charlotte Mason's picture study method is about spending time with a small number of an artist's works until they become familiar friends. That approach works beautifully with Norman Rockwell.
The only challenge is copyright. Many of Rockwell's best-known paintings remain under copyright, making them difficult for homeschool publishers to reproduce legally.
Kindred Thicket solves this by building the study around Rockwell paintings that are in the public domain.
No. Kindred Thicket uses a completely different selection of paintings.
Our lessons are built around public-domain Norman Rockwell works so families can legally print, display, and study every picture included in the course.
Most of the paintings selected for the Ambleside Online Norman Rockwell term are still protected by copyright, making them unavailable for publishers to reproduce in a printable picture study. Even other Charlotte Mason publishers note this limitation.
Instead of trying to work around those restrictions, Kindred Thicket created an entirely public-domain lineup that remains faithful to Charlotte Mason's method.
Yes. Charlotte Mason never required six specific paintings by an artist.
Her method is to become deeply acquainted with an artist through careful observation over several weeks. Any collection of representative works can accomplish that goal.
A thoughtfully chosen public-domain lineup allows children to know Norman Rockwell as an artist while avoiding copyright restrictions.
Yes. The selected paintings showcase Rockwell's storytelling, expressive faces, careful composition, humor, and remarkable ability to capture ordinary American life.
Children learn to recognize the qualities that make a Norman Rockwell painting immediately recognizable.
Yes. If your curriculum recommends studying Norman Rockwell, this picture study provides a complete Charlotte Mason artist study using legally reproducible public-domain paintings.
While the individual works differ from some curriculum schedules, your children are still becoming acquainted with the same artist using the same Charlotte Mason method.
To our knowledge, this is the only Charlotte Mason picture study built entirely around public-domain Norman Rockwell paintings.
That means every artwork can be legally included in the printable study materials and companion videos while remaining true to Charlotte Mason's approach to picture study.
Yes. Many families use resources from multiple Charlotte Mason publishers.
This study is not intended to duplicate another schedule. Instead, it offers a practical, legally reproducible way to study one of America's most beloved illustrators through Charlotte Mason's picture study method.
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 Rockwell's portrait on the front and his life, his six paintings, 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 painting; a color palette page; the Masters of Picture Study timeline; full-page prints of all six paintings; and a two-page biography of the artist at the back of the packet.
Boy with Baby Carriage, No Swimming, Pardon Me, Painting the Little House, Mother Tucking Children Into Bed, and The Love Song.
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
