Students love learning history in Paint Your Way Through Medieval History!
Learn the history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
while honing your artistic skills in acrylics, watercolor, and drawing!
Towering fortresses, legendary warriors, and intricate medieval designs come to life. Students will use a variety of mediums, including pencil and pen, watercolor, acrylics, and cut paper. Every lesson has stories and interesting facts from Medieval and Renaissance history followed by a related art project. Students work in an art journal creating their own illustrated history book!
A perfect complement to CC Foundations
The accompanying book, The Art Of Medieval History is availalbe!
Extend the lessons by using the text for IEW lesson source texts!
Extend the lesson with readings from Story of the World Vol. 2 by Susan Wise Bauer.
1 hour class
Meets weekly for 12 weeks per semester
Mondays 1:00 pm EST - Maddie Sanford (full, email if you are currently enrolled)
Wednesdays 1:00 pm EST - Maddie Sanford (full, email if you are currently enrolled)
Thursdays 1:00 pm EST - Led by Alyssa Strauss
Fridays 11:00 am EST - Led by Alyssa Strauss
$579 full year
$319 per semester
These prices include the registration fee.
Registration fee is non-refundable. Please see the FAQ page for our refund policy.
You can pay for the FULL year at once or pay per semester. Click your choice below, and it will take you to check out.
Click the image to purchase the book:
Class Calendar:
Fall 2025:
Class Start Date: Week of Sept. 8
Fall Breaks
Week of October 13, 2025, Week of November 24, 2025 (Thanksgiving week)
Spring 2026
Start: Week of Jan. 12
Breaks: Week of February 16, 2026, Week of March 30, 2026
Monday and Wednesday classes will be led by Maddie Sanford.
Thursday and Friday classes will be led by Alyssa Strauss.
All classes are recorded, so if you miss a class, you can watch the recording later.
Students learn to draw, paint, and watercolor while learning all about medieval and renaissance history!
CLASSES ARE RECORDED SO YOU CAN WATCH LATER IF YOU MISS A CLASS.
This class goes well with Classical Conversation's Foundations classes! (Especially 4th, 5th, and 6th graders who want to integrate literature with their Foundations memory work!)
No art experience is necessary. All levels are welcome.
Here's what people are saying about these classes:
From students:
"My daughter LOVES her teacher!"
"Class is fun! My teacher is really kind."
"I always like the end product."
From Parents:
"The instructors are super encouraging and do a great job of building value in each student’s contributions to the study of “art.”
Questions? maddie@delightfulartco.com
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SUPPLY LIST
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Art Journal: 9x12 or 8.5x11 inches. (Spiral Bound or Perfect
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Make sure it is bound on the side, not the top. It can be either hardbound or spiral-bound. Brand does not matter, but here’s what I use: ◦ https://www.michaels.com/product/85-x-11-mint-spiral-sketchbook-by-artists-loft- 10671628?michaelsStore=5500&inv=3 ◦ https://www.michaels.com/product/texture-hardcover-sketchbook-by-artists-loft- 85-x-11-10692659?com_id=pdp_AlsoLike&path=youMayAlsoLike
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Black Permanent Markers: Fine and Ultra-fine (Any brand). Make sure one is a regular Sharpie so we’re sure it doesn’t bleed when painted over with watercolor
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Drawing Pencils: A #2 pencil you already have will work fine. If you’re really into art, you could pick out a set that has a variety of hardness types.
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Blending tools and Erasers: Pencil sets sometimes include erasers and blending tools, so you only need to purchase blending tools if you don’t get a set that has them. • A blending tool is rolled-up paper that looks like a plain white pencil. We use it for shading. You can buy a variety of sizes in a pack or get one in a pencil set
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Watercolor Palette: A beginner set of dry watercolors is fine to start out with
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Colored Pencils: Any type.
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Acrylic Paints: 4 oz tubes of Acrylic Paints: CLICK HERE FOR LINKS FOR ACRYLIC PAINT
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4 oz tubes of
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Titanium White,
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Mars Black,
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Quinacridone Magenta,
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Pthalo Blue, and
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Cadmium Yellow.
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Exact color names vary by brand, so if you can’t find those exactly you may find them referred to as Primary Yellow, Primary Magenta, and Primary Blue. Make sure you buy the acrylic paint that is from the art section of the store rather than the craft section. You can find these in a variety of places. Micheals carries Liquitex Basics
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Paint Brushes: A set that includes a variety is great. Look for a ¾ or 1 inch flat brush, a medium size round brush, and a small round brush, as we use those the most! •
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Plastic or Paper Plates (for use as a paint palette): I use a disposable plastic plate as a palette, as it gives us lots or room to mix paints, and you can store it in a gallon ziploc bag to preserve wet paint. You’ll also need something to rinse your brushes in, like an old pasta sauce jar.
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• Glue Stick: A glue stick or school glue, whichever you have around the house will work!
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• Metalic Gold Paint Pen: any brand
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Salt - we will sprinkle salt onto wet watercolors for a special effect
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Scrap Cardboard - two cereal boxes that we will cut up. Any type of smooth cardboard like a cracker box or cereal box will work.
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Ruler
Markers such as Crayola basic markers.
Black Consturction paper or Black Scrap-book paper (3 or 4 sheets)
Extend the lesson with Story of The World Vol. 2 by Susan Wise Bauer
Or with these books from Beautiful Fee Press:
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Green
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Queen Eleanor
Robin Hood
The Magna Charta, James daugherty
The Kite Rider
The Trumpter of Krakow
Adam of the Road
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Fine Print (Gutenburg and the Printing Press)
Morning Star of the Reformation