Enhance your CC Experience with Art!
Did you know that art is another way to know God and make him known? God is a creator, and since we're made in His image, we also are made to create!
After being a part of Classical Conversations for 16 years and graduating 3 kids out of Challenge IV, I've developed a classical, Christian approach to art education that enhances your CC experience.
We delight in integrating subjects, creating our own books on an academic subject, and using our art in presentations on CC day!
Paint Your Way Through Art History, was created to expand on the art studied in Challenge II and help explain Francis Schaeffer's ideas on Christianity and culture. After writing Marvelous to Behold, I was inspired to develop art projects that would give students the opportunity to do art themselves!
We've added a few classes every year, so that we now have a full art curriculum for age 6 to college credit, including art books, self-paced classes, and art retreats.
NEW in 2027, join me on a RIVER CRUISE from Paris to Normandy and back. We'll visit Monet's gardens and many places where he and Van Gogh lived and painted. A whole family study-abroad, or a mother-daughter adventure. I'll be offering paint workshops throughout the cruise! More info to come!
-Courtney Sanford
Former CC mom, Former Challenge Director, Artist, Author
Coupon Codes for CC families:
CCFAM10OFF ($10 off any class)
CCFAM5OFF (5 off books
(excludes sketchbooks)
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How are Delightful classes classical?
1. We integrate subjects.
2. We follow the classical learning progression from grammar to dialectic to rhetoricalwhich means we practice skills (grammar) combine and experiment with skills and materials (rhetoric) before asking students to create original compositions (rhetoric). We don't restrict these stages to age groups - any age learner will go through these stages and become rhetorical when they are ready.
3. We start with blank books and fill them like Leonardo da Vinci and Nathaniel Bowditch.
Learn more in these videos with founder, Courtney Sanford:
Art Retreats
A challenge student retreat can enrich your whole community experience by building relationships with students and sharing an enriching and fun art experience. If you have a group of 7 or more students (ages 12+), I can plan a fantastic private art retreat for your group! If you host a retreat, you get free tuition for your student. (One free student for every 6 students you bring.) Retreats can be one to three-day events. I'll plan art lessons just for your group. Unlike a paint party, I teach the process and let students explore their own creativity, so everyone's art is unique! I can bring tables, chairs, drop cloths, projector and screen, and all the art supplies; you find the students, house (if 2+ days), and a few moms to provide meals. Contact courtney@delightfulartco.com to start planning your retreat!