Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Artist's Toolkit Video Lessons


The Artist's Toolkit
This website is a great way to introduce younger students to the principles and elements of art. Students can watch the informative videos the website provides and can then practice utilizing the elements discussed in the videos through the "create" tab.

Inside Art Through Story Telling


Inside Art
This website is an interactive journey which allows students to discover the meaning behind famous paintings throughout history. The student reads the story and chooses where he or she would like to guide the story through which links they click. It is an engaging way to learn about art history.

Keith Haring Kids


Haring Kids
This site has a variety of sources for both students and teachers. For students, this site provides an interactive online coloring book, a bio of artist Keith Haring, examples of other student works, as well as an interactive activity which lets students create a story based on the art of Keith Haring. Teachers can utilize the lesson plans this site offers in reference to Keith Haring.

Picassohead: Picasso Painting Creation!


Picassohead
This interactive digital canvas allows students to create a work resembling the style of modern artist Pablo Picasso. Students can choose from a variety of realistic and abstract shapes, and colors in order to create their own work.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Faces and Places

This interactive game allows children to deal with the human figure and their surroundings in art pieces. The different elements and images the children can use are all from paintings done by American naive artists. Just to let everyone know you will need a plug-In called Shockwave Player.

This interactive lesson could help children to compose a portrait or a landscape and to then go back and paint or draw what they have learned and experimented with. If children are learning about atmospheric perspective they can create a landscape that has accurate sizing of objects located in the foreground, middle ground and background. Faces and Places

Still Life

Teaches children how to compose different still lives, they can then paint or draw these still lives. This will teach them composition, subject matter, and help them learn how to paint or draw while also teaching them the works of master painters. Children can also change the lighting in their image as well as the darkness of the shadows, the placement of objects, which objects to choose and the scale of the objects.

This interactive lesson needs a plug in called Adobe Shockwave Player.

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Prints

Fascinate your classroom with new ideas and color blocking.
This is a great way to introduce modern art into your classroom
as well as bringing technology into your classroom.

WallOVERS: patterns and textures

This interactive lesson allows children to create different textiles, textures and patterns using symmetry. If they are learning about Islamic art and the tiling patterns they create they can then mimic this using wallOvers. They are given a virtual wall with grids, when a child draws in one box it mimics it in all the boxes creating a pattern/ textile.

wallOVERS

BRUSHSTER: Interactive paint brush

This interactive lesson allows children to use different tools to create abstract and non representational pieces of art. This can be a good practice session or lead up to a lesson on Abstract, Abstract Expressionism and Modern Art. Perhaps learning about Jackson Pollock, Kandinsky, etc.

Sea-Saws

This interactive art game/lesson is for children of all ages. They choose from a ton of images of different objects or people and then put them together to create characters and pieces. This can be used for a lesson in collage and using outside objects or clippings from magazines to create a piece of art. Different tools are scale, shadow, level, flip, turn, and build.