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Alphabet of Art. This site explains, in simple terms, the elements of visual design. Once you understand the Alphabet, you'll be able to "read" pictures and other works of visual art and understand why they work the way they do.

Arti FAQ 21OO...Using Renaissance achievements as a platform and present foundation, students will pose key inquiry questions that will prompt their vision of art in our lives within the next hundreds years. This project is designed to predict how art will influence our lives in the next hundred years. Through probing past inspirations and methods students can use available data to make reasonable predictions for the future.

A Lifetime of Color - Create Art: Hands-on activities, technique demos and more. Study Art: Art history, glossary terms, and artist biographies. Play Art Games: ArtEdventures and online activities about art history and art concepts. Teach Art: Lesson plans for classroom

Art Access examines objects from various areas of The Art Institute of Chicago’s permanent collection to enrich visitors' understanding of their content, style, and historical context. Included are a variety of online resources of special interest to educators, parents, students, and young people, including lesson plans for the classroom and art projects for the home.

Art Educator (ARTiculation) look at a piece of artwork and to understand what goes into the art making process. Over fifty activities reinforce what has been learned in each section. Main sections include Elements of Art, Principles of Design, and Art Critiquing Process. Also contains a Timeline, Vocabulary Section, and numerous lessons plans and worksheets

ARTnatomy website is a very cool learning tool that helps science and art students understand the structure and muscle layout of the human face. You can switch between schematic and natural layout, explore all the muscles of the face.. and see how they create different expressions.
Art and Architecture - A variety of resources.
Art Deadlines List - monthly email newsletter listing art contests & competitions, art scholarships & grants, juried exhibitions, art jobs & internships
art::21 - The Online Lesson Library is a doorway to curricular resources that present contemporary art and artists for the classroom. The 27 lessons in the library serve as guides for a course of study incorporating contemporary art and artists, or as a broader res
Artcyclopedia - the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet: indexed 1200 arts sites, and offer more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists.
Artifact - Best of the Web in the Arts and Creative Industries
Artist’s Toolkit - Visual Elements and Principles

ArtPad digital canvas from Art.com lets anyone paint a masterpiece! You can choose a custom frame, add text, print your creation, or save/send it too.
ArtLex - definitions for more than 3,100 terms used in visual culture, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references

ArtsConnectEd - Using the power of the Internet to stimulate new approaches to learning, the goal of ArtsConnectEd is to make arts education timely, engaging, interactive, and pertinent for both teachers and students of all ages
ARTSEDGE - explore different art forms, providing insightful advice and observations from both artists and teachers.NewsBreak | Teaching Materials | Professional Resources

Cartoonster...Cartoonster's free online tutorials provide step by step instructions for drawing and animating. Techniques are simple and can be done with no special materials. The site is totally flash-driven and full of examples that make sense.

Conservator's Studio...Explore four paintings from the Mexican Modernism exhibition through the eyes of a conservator (what's a conservator? you'll find that out too!). You'll have a new perspective on the paintings as well as how they are handled and prepared for display.
Crayola Creativity Central - Educators will love our art education ideas and lesson plans for classroom use. We also have one of the largest kids’ art collections on the Web in our on-line gallery.
Dick Blick Art Materials - Looking for ideas to use in the classroom? Give some of our lesson plans a try! Click on any of the images below to view the entire lesson plan.

Daily Drawing brings you instructional art videos on a variety of drawing styles and designs. Everything set to music, and the videos move pretty fast, but its exciting and neat to watch the drawings come to life.

Drawspace (created and run by Brenda Hoddinott) is a great resource for the beginning, intermediate or advanced artist. Her easy to navigate webpage has A-Z lessons covering everything from simple symmetry, shading and proportions, to muscle structures and photorealism effects.

Eyes on Art - Lesson plans and tutorials that teach students and adults to look at things from an artistic view.

“Learning at Whitney” , the Whitney Museum of American Art’s online education resource.
Make a Splash with Color - Created by the Tech Museum of Innovation and Adobe Systems Incorporated, this online exhibit introduces students to the many different aspects of color. Make a Splash with Color explores the ’ingredients’ that make up color, the different source
Mark Kistler’s Imagination Station! - Welcome to the Coolest Learn-to-Draw in 3-D Web Site in the Cyber Galaxy!

Mr. Picassohead...Assemble your own Picasso-style painting from various drag-and-drop shapes and figures. If you’re lucky, cubist painting will lead to cubist thinking.
P@NOPTIC : Searching Rubens - ... Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin. ... Art, architecture, museums arranged by country: separate menu: ... Description: A huge collection of images of architecture across the world, with an emphasis on the Mediterranean...
The Cave of Lascaux - Cyber-spelunk your way through one of the world’s most famous caves: the Cave of Lascaux, a paleolithic Louvre of prehistoric art. View the cave paintings through a virtual tour as you learn about the cave’s discovery, near destruction,

Color in Motion - An interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism by Claudia Cortes.
* The Glass Gallery - A site about Glass Art as well as antique and modern paperweights.
* The Incredible Art Department - Includes art trivia and news, an overview of careers in art, and lesson ideas... Art Room || Art News || Pet Peeves || Art Stuff || Lessons || Cartoons Art Jobs || Guest Book || Chat! || Awards || Art Site of the Week || AEAI. ..

Integrating the Arts...Launch a cross-disciplinary examination of art designed to support essential learning in math, science, social studies, and language arts. Using representative works from ancient, medieval, and Renaissance periods, learners absorb information about a range of art and artifacts from these periods across multiple disciplines.

Pencil is a program of creating of hand-drawn animation.... it uses four types of layers: vector graphics, bitmap, sound and camera. These layers and be added or removed dynamically and you can change each layer as it has a track that lets you change it as a function of time by inserting keys at certain frames in the track. These keys create the sequence that enables animation...can also be used as a simple drawing program with standard design tools like pen, brush, paint bucket and more with an unlimited canvas space.

The Renaissance Connection...interactive educational web site. With the simple click of a mouse button, travel 500 years into the past to discover many Renaissance innovations...Be a patron of the arts. Design your own innovation. Investigate Renaissance artworks in depth. Discover how past innovations inform life today. And more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent humor, and engaging interactivity...

Scratchboard Tutorials... step-by-step through a variety of scratchbook and Photoshop illustration projects.

Urban Sketchers...Beautiful blog where artists paint the places they live and visit

The Worldwide Art Gallery - ... Search The Worldwide Art Gallery. ... Discover a world of great artists in history in The Worldwide Art Gallery’s Art Education section. ... Description: A gallery of artwork from Australian and international artists
What is a Print? - The Museum of Modern Art in New York shows how prints are made from woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and screenprints. Each style includes a short description, a gallery of artworks, and an interactive demonstration of how to create the prints. Try your ...
White House Collection of American Craft - This collection from the Smithsonian Institution houses glass, fiber, wood, metal, and ceramic pieces from the 1990s. You can tour the White House by room or by medium of art. Each piece of artwork has images, a description and an artist profile. Some art
Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? - ng and intellectually stimulating site... Your hosts are students from John F Kennedy High School in the Bronx and Sweden producing a multimedia learning environment...

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