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[|Art:21 Student Art Projects]
Inspired by the artwork, ideas and artists featured in the series, many educators have created innovative projects that allow students to explore contemporary art in classrooms, after-school programs, and community-based organizations.

Explore the Greatest Paintings //of// the World
[|Geocoded Art] [|Geo Coded Art] is a collection of landscape, seascape, and cityscape paintings. The collection can be browsed by artist, by painting title, or by location. No matter how you browse, once you've found a painting, click on it to view it on a Google Map or Bing Map. Once you're on the map you can browse for other paintings created in the same region.

[|The Incredible Art Department]
There are literally thousands of art-related links in this section. See artists from around the world, visit international galleries, see student art work, blogs, art videos, and much more! The Art Teacher Toolbox is a resource for new teachers. You can read about discipline strategies, special education, NCLB, best practices, school law, view contests, and create rubrics.

[|Livebrush]
is a free drawing program available for Mac and Windows computers. Livebrush offers a wide array of drawing tools for creating beautiful shapes, drawings, and designs. The built-in tools allow users to create a simple sketches with just one or two strokes of the paintbrush. Users can combine as many brush strokes as they like in their drawings. For example, the flower shape in my sketch below was made with just one brush stroke.

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[|Art, Art, Art]
Lots of interesting links to a variety of visual arts.

[|National Gallery of Art]
The [|National Gallery of Art] has created [|seven interactive art activities] for students in elementary school through high school. Using these activities students can explore elements of digital photograph editing, elements of color, and experiment with different styles of painting. Three of the featured activities are Brushster, Dutch Doll House, and Collage Machines. In Brushster, students mix and match colors to create abstract art. The Dutch Doll House is an interactive exhibit in which students explore the 17th century home and studio of a Dutch artist. The Collage Machines, of which there are two, give students a platform for creating collages of art sample

[|BRUSHter]
Online painting tool

[|The Woodring Monitor]
Jim Woodring's Blog

[|Art Education 2.0]

 * Art Education 2.0** is for those interested in the use of new technology to enhance and transform art education. The aim of **Art Education 2.0** is to explore ways of using Web 2.0 and other digital technologies to promote effective art education practices, encourage cultural exchanges and joint creative work, and support artistic projects, curricular activities, and professional development opportunities deemed important by our members.

[|ArtLex Art Dictionary]
You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.

[|Art Projects for Kids]
A blog with a range of art ideas for a range of grades

[|Flash Paint]
is an online art application. What makes Flash Paint stand-out is that there is a place for the “painter” to write about their creation and you then can save the painting and the writing to the gallery. You’re given a url for both that can be posted on an online journal or blog.

[|Creative Art]
Free presentations in PowerPoint format for kids and teachers



[|Paintmap]
[|Paintmap.com] is a great example of combining art and technology. Paint Map is part search engine, part artwork sharing, and part Google Map. The way Paint Map works is artists submit images of their paintings, write a description of the where the painting was made, and then plot that location on a Google Map. Paint Map offers a commenting system through which visitors and artists can interact. There is a search bar on Paint Map's homepage that visitors can use to search through the nearly 500 paintings on Paint Map. [|Paint Map]could be a useful tool for art teachers and art students. Paint Map provides students with a global context of the paintings they view. Students can explore Paint Map to see what artists around the world are creating and the possible geographic influences of those artists. Paint Map can also give students a chance to share work their work with a global audience.
 * Search Paintings Around the World**

[|Shape Faces]
This activity introduces the form of art known as "cubism" to the class. It firstly shows how artists can use shapes to make abstract portraits or "funny faces". Pupils look at a picture of a face painted in the cubist style and discuss shapes used, position of facial features and colours chosen. They then have an opportunity to make their own cubist face by following the on-screen instructions which add abstract facial features one at a time to their portrait. Pupils then have the opportunity of choosing a colour scheme for their picture and are able to print it. ||
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[|Art Links]
Wide variety of art sites here under various headings. Worth a look.

[|SurrealPainter]
Try your hand at painting in the modernist style [|Surreal Painter]is another online art tool that allows you to make all sorts of design decisions in creating your own surreal art.

[|Mondrian Machine]
" It is so cool to see students firstly mock Mondrian’s works but when you challenge them to emulate the works they find it much harder than they had initially imagined. At this point I throw in the line, ‘ Surely there is a beauty in the way the paint is applied to the canvas. How do you think he got it so ‘flat’ looking? ‘." [|The Teachers' Toolbox]

[|Art Attack]
 On this page you'll find fact sheets for all the Art Attacks featured in over the last few series. We're adding fact sheets for each Art Attack in the new series every week, too.

**[|Art Education 2.0]**

 * Art Education 2.0** is for art educators at all levels who are interested in using digital technologies to enhance and transform art teaching and learning. The aim of **Art Education 2.0** is to explore ways of using technology to promote effective art education practices, encourage cultural exchanges and joint creative work, and support artistic projects, curricular activities, and professional development opportunities deemed important by our members.

[|Collage Machine]
There is also a link to Collage Machine 2. Both from National Gallery of Art (NGAKids)

[|Brushter]
Also from NGAKids. BRUSHster is an online painting machine for all ages. This shockwave interactive includes more than forty brushes and customizable size, transparency, texture, and stroke options. A rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs help make BRUSHster a full-feature painting program. BRUSHster has a mind of its own! Click one of the green AUTO buttons and let the computer generate some paintings for you. When you want to regain control, just click the red STOP button or start drawing.

**[|Art Lesson Plans]**
Lots of ideas here - from fine arts to craft activities.We are always on the lookout for new lesson ideas. Here are some fresh projects for 2008! Click on any of the images below to view the entire lesson plan in **PDF format**.

[|Yellowstone Art Museum]
Learn how to silkscreen like Andy Warhol [|warhol.org] Create your own self-portrait, Picasso style [|mrpicassohead.com] Graffiti art making [|thewall.msn.com] Museum of Modern Art's interactive site [|redstudio.moma.org] Everyone's classic favorite...etch-a-sketch [|etch-a-sketch.com]
 * Interactive Art Websites **

**[|National Gallery of Art NGAkids Art Zone]**
Interactive art you can make online

**[|Artsonia Kids Art Museum]**
The world's largest kids art museum with a teachers page

**[|The Art of the Cat]**
The art in these public domain books is free for download, use, or re-use in anyway you like. To illustrate this bounty, we present a selection of books featuring cats. From the Internet Aechive.

**[|Art in Motion]**
Aimed at Secondary schools, this site looks at artworks both in the collection and others, exploring the theme of capturing movement through art.

**[|BBC Arts Impressionism]**
View our gallery of some of the most popular paintings from the Impressionist era.

**[|Katinka Matson]**
Lots of amazing art based on flowers



[|Pop Art is Alive]
This post presents **75 outstanding examples of classic and modern pop art**.

[|Art Museum Kiosk]
Understanding Composition - This application is designed to help you identify the use of symmetry and balance in a two-dimensional painting.

**[|Canvastic.net]**
This is the new, free, online version of the educational software, Canvastic, we call it CANVASTIC DOT NET. Students will be able to draw, paint, create, write and publish pages without installing any software.

[|Color me crazy - 10 best online color tools]
=== **[|National Gallery of Art The Art Zone]** === Collage Machine •  Mobile • PixelFace • 3-D Twirler • Cubits • Diamonds • Dutch House • Photo OpPaintBox • Wallovers • RiverRun • SwatchBox • **Flow** • Jungle • <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="display: block; text-align: center;">BRUSHster • <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="display: block; text-align: center;">Still Life • <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="display: block; text-align: center;">NGAkids Home

Online Painting Tool

**[|Queensland Art Gallery]**
Online Interactives for Kids

**[|Art Snacks]**
A Ning for displaying kids art online. You need to join Ning to be able to sign in to view works

**[|The Teaching Palette]**
The Teaching Palette is a [|blog] authored by art educators for art educators. Our goal is to provide a collaborative and resourceful forum where art specialists of all levels can explore professional topics that impact our subject area - from classroom management to tools and techniques to integrating music.

**[|Wetpaint Please Touch]**
Create Your Own Masterpiece!

**[|Myoats]**
Myoats is a community where people create designs using an online drawing application. These designs can be rated, downloaded, and archived. The [|Most Liked] designs are rewarded by being featured on the home page.

**[|SmARTkids]**
Art museum at the University of Chicago

[|Art & Learning to Think and Feel]
<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 108%;">**questions, ideas, innovation, and inspiration for art teachers and parents**

[|Incredible Art Lessons]
Jnr High / Middle School lessons [|here]. Tons of ideas heer!