Online Interactive Resources for Art
General Art Resources Sites
Great Kids info/project/biography site: http://www.scribbleskidsart.com/
Over 23,000 pictures on line: http://www.artunframed.com/
BBC arts online is an exciting multimedia interactive site with features from art history to contemporary BritArt. Its education section has useful links to other recommended sites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/
Access Art is accessible site with an expanding resource of engaging creative workshops and imaginative Flash interactive activities for Primary or younger KS3 e.g. What is sculpture? Workshops are very well structured and include drawing, photography, installation art, colour and visual literacy. There are teacher notes and pupil worksheets: http://www.accessart.org.uk/
The Art Attack interactive site has projects from the current TV series and an archive of past projects with printable versions and a non-Flash version of the site.: http://www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/
Hundreds of make stuff ideas for all sorts of crafts etc. : http://www.make-stuff.com/
DARE is the Digital Resource for Education for the Institute of International Visual Arts. Its interactive resources for culturally diverse contemporary art feature 36 artists work, based on the themes of Play, Space and Place , and Translation: http://www.dareonline.org/
Art products and resources for creative individuals from beginner to advanced: http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/
Art adventures covering all aspects, cave paintings, left and right brain work, Leonardo’s Workshop, Landscape, Colour, Architecture, Design, Portraits: http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/play.html
Art detective adventure – interactive fun!: http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/
The Keith Haring Foundation children’s site is mainly for Primary children: it has an interactive colouring book, and a morphing shape animation that could be used to introduce a project making Flash movies/animations.: http://www.haringkids.com/
Enchanted Learning has biographical information, projects and colouring activities for younger pupils on a great number of artists organised by artist, nationality or historic period: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/
Art projects from Sir Robert Hitchams Primary School’s excellent site include lesson ideas for art and ICT projects and guides to 3D, drawing, image manipulation and digital video editing software – for example: Windows MovieMaker 2, Serif ImpactPlus, Revelation Natural Art, Paint Shop Pro 7 and Animation Shop, Serif DrawPlus, and Dazzle Plus. It also has guidance on using interactive whiteboards and graphics tablets.: http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/ict_art/index.htm
The Northumberland Grid for Learning has printable, illustrated information sheets on different art elements and processes: drawing, 3D, tone, colour, ICT, shape etc; http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/art/infosheets/default.htm
Art encyclopeadia: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
All about colour: http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
A gateway to architecture around the world, this includes a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more.: http://www.greatbuildings.com/
Art games online: http://www.artonline.it/eng/games.asp
