| Structure and Function of Visual Art |
| General Structure and Function Resources |
| | Elements of Art
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| | Learn about color, value, line, shape, form, texture and space. Great online lessons! |
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| | Principles of Art
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| | Learn about balance, contrast, proportion, pattern, rhythm, emphasis, unity, and variety. Great online lessons! |
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| | Artist Toolkit
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| | Explore the tools that artists use - like line, color and balance - to create works of art. An incredible multimedia-based site that features an online toolkit and an art encyclopedia! |
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| | Art-rageous Thinking
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| | Here you get to practice thinking like an artist. By trying the activities here, you will discover ways that some artists get their ideas. You will also discover that while learning to think like an artist can be fun, it can also be hard work! |
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| | Bottlecaps to Brushes
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| | Follow "Cappy" the giraffe, as he leads you on a kids' tour of the Smithsonian Art Museum's online collections! |
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| | Wonderful Styles of Art
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| | From ThinkQuest Junior, a great site that teaches kids how to draw in many different styles - Surrealism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Pop Art, Cubism ... and more! |
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| | The Land that Design Forgot
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| | Help Carmine design a playground that works! Learn the principles of design while playing this great interactive activity! |
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| | Art Sparkers
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| | What is an Art Sparker? Its an idea that excites the synaptic nerves in your brain and stirs your imagination. Check out these 15 online art ideas! |
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| | NGA Kids Page
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| | A great site from the National Gallery of Arts! Their Kids page includes several activities that introduce artistic concepts! |
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| | The Portrait Detectives
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| | A portrait isn't just a pretty picture of a famous or wealthy person. It is a treasure trove of clues and ideas. It can tell us who a person was, how they lived and what they thought about themselves. It can even tell us about the painter and their life. Using paintings from the Walker Museum, you will learn how to find and interpret these clues.
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| | Landscapes with Carmine!
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| | For kids ages 5-7, learn about landscapes, and create 3 landscapes online! Also check out Carmine's great What is a Portrait? site! |
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| | Student Art Gallery
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| | This area of the Art Room is dedicated to exhibiting childrens art work from around the world. Click on each picture to see a larger view. Enjoy the exhibition! Also, don`t miss another new exhibition that features drawings by children from Greece. |
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| | Your Space
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| | A gallery of work in the form of interactive pieces, video, animation, web pages, photography and graphics from young people from across the globe. |
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| | Design a Garden
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| | Pretend that you are part of a design team that has to submit a design for a sculpture garden. This garden will be built in the center of a big city, so the people of the city can enjoy the natural environment, and also view sculptures of all types and scales.
Here is your chance to make a mock-up, a design of this garden on-line.
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| | Nursery Rhyme Collage
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| | Create an online collage of a nursery rhyme with this great interactive activity! |
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| | Story Painting
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| | To make stories, you will drag any of the objects that you want to use on the white board. The white board is like a canvas. Many artists use a canvas when they make paintings.
After you are done placing your objects,
you or someone else can type your story in a box.
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| Drawing |
| | Drawing Board
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| | A great drawing tablet with lots of cool tools! |
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| | Draw and Color with Uncle Fred
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| | A great site with drawing and coloring lessons for young students! |
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| | Learn to Draw with Billy Bear
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| | Grab your pencils (black & colors) and paper... or your computer mouse and favorite graphic program and draw with Billy Bear! Learn to take BASIC SHAPES... and turn them into something beautiful! |
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| | Keeping a Sketchbook
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| | Learn how to keep a sketchbook! Most artists keep sketchbooks in which they experiment with ideas and collect drawings of their environment. Sketchbooks are like visual diaries for artists. Artists often use them for planning and developing their work. |
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| Shape and Form |
| | Introduction to Line and Shape
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| | Learn about Line and Shape from Carmine - in verse! "Learn about lines—
So many to see.
Then discover shapes—
A better artist you'll be!" |
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| | Line Design
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| | A great online activity! Look around and see how many lines you can discover.
All lines have a beginning, middle, and end. If you start with a dot, then make a mark across a surface and end with another dot, you have a line.
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| | KOLR - Color and Shape
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| | Learn the basics about colors and shapes with this fun animated lesson. |
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| | Composition
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| | A great review of Jasmine Sidewinder by Gene Davis that reveals much about the composition of the painting! Great for younger students who are exploring art concepts. |
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| | Seeing Shadows
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| | People usually don`t pay much attention to the things they see everyday. A key to being a good artist, however, is noticing things that other people often miss.
Take shadows. Most people don`t bother to look at shadows. But, once you start looking for shadows, you will discover them all around you.
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| Perspective and Scale |
| | What is It?
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| | From the MET: Skilled artists can make us believe that stone sculptures feel as soft as flesh and that painted canvases are as cool as water. How do they do this? Explore perspective, scale and texture here! |
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| | Exploring Perspective
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| | Perspective is used by artists to give the illusion of space and distance. At this site, you can click on a variety of scenes and create your own pictures using perspectives. Also, learn about how many great artists used perspective in their works. |
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| Color |
| | Color Theory vs. Dr. Gray and his Dechromatizers
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| | An amazing interactive Art-venture! "The evil Dr. Gray and his Dechromatizer have set out to drain the color from fine art everywhere. It's up to you and Carmine Chameleon to stop them!" Learn all about color theory through this great activity! |
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| | Color in Art
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| | An incredible collection of color lessons!
Analagous Colors ...
Atmospheric Perspective ...
Color Symbolism ...
Color Wheel ...
Complementary Colors ...
Cool Colors ...
Depth ...
Focal Point ...
Golden Rectangle ...
Intermediate Colors ...
Linear Perspective ...
Local Color ...
Mood ...
Neutral Colors ...
Plein Air ...
Primary Colors ...
Secondary Colors ...
Shade ...
Tint ...
Warm Colors |
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| | Introduction to Colors
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| | Learn about the Color Wheel from Carmine - in verse! Carmine is my name
And color is my game.
So get your wheels turning
And lets go do some learning! |
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| | Make a Splash With Color
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| | "We see red apples, green grass, and blue sky. Did you ever wonder why this is? Maybe it has something to do with the apples, the grass, and the sky? Or maybe something to do with your eyes? Or maybe even something to do with your mind?
This exhibit is all about answering these questions. Most importantly this exhibit is about having fun while learning about color. Time`s wasting, so lets get started." |
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| | Red, Yellow, Blue
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| | A great interactive online activity that helps young children and children with learning difficulties to explore color! |
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| | Mix-n-Match
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| | You can match millions of different background colors by mixing three colors of light: red, blue, and green. Check out this great online activity where you can experiment with color mixing! |
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| | Color Matters
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| | A great site! "Color theory encompasses a multitude of definitions, concepts and design applications. All the information would fill several encyclopedias. As an introduction, here are a few basic concepts." Also check out explorations of Color and the Brain, Body, Vision, Science ... and much more! |
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| | Color Mixing
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| | From Harcourt, a fun online activity where kids can mix primary colors! |
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| | ColorWorm
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| | A great online book that takes a detailed look at color in art! |
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| | Color Your Cabin
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| | An interactive exploration of color for kids! All things, natural or man-made, contain color. Color is also found in all types of art. Colors can be warm or cool. Explore color here! |
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| Sculpture and 3D Forms |
| | What is Sculpture?
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| | What do you think Sculpture is? This online workshop will introduce you to lots of differents types of sculpture. |
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| | Sculpture Workshop
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| | Sculpture has shape.
Sculpture is three-dimensional, not flat.
Some sculptures stand alone.
Some sculptures stand out from a wall.
Some sculptures stand still.
Some sculptures move.
Explore this site to learn more!
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| | Creating 3D Forms
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| | 3D forms are great for sculptures and architectural models. Here are some techniques for making them from paper or tag board. What form do you want to make?
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| | Sculpture Chain
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| | An online workshop about transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary sculpture! |
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| | Making 3-D Shapes
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| | You can learn to shade shapes so they look like 3-D forms. Practice drawing the outlines of some basic forms. Need help? Watch an animation showing some basic ways to draw a
cube, a cylinder, a cone, and a pyramid.
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| | Casting and Construction
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| | Discover how to sculpt with clay and plaster! |
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| | Making Pots
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| | A step-by-step guided tour of how to make pottery, presented by a young man with a long family tradition of pottery craft. |
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| | Working With Withies
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| | Learn how to make sculptures with willow branches! |
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| | NGA - Sculpture Garden
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| | Take a virtual tour of the acclaimed Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Art! |
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| | The Twigman Cometh
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| | A great feature from the Smithsonian on an artist who sculpts in a strange medium - twigs! |
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| Portraits |
| | Carmine`s Portraits
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| | Just what is a portrait? Learn all about portraits from Carmine Chameleon! |
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| | The Portrait Detectives
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| | A portrait isn't just a pretty picture of a famous or wealthy person. It is a treasure trove of clues and ideas. It can tell us who a person was, how they lived and what they thought about themselves. It can even tell us about the painter and their life. Using paintings from the Walker Museum, you will learn how to find and interpret these clues.
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| | Portrait - Sanford Art
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| | A portrait is a work of art about a person. Learn more about portraits here, and see some examples! |
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| | Portrait Gallery
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| | A selection of portraits of historical figures from the Perry-Castańeda Library, University of Texas at Austin. The images in this collection are in the public domain. |
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| | Portraits of the Presidents
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| | From the Smithsonian, a collection that evokes the history of the nation`s highest office and the individuals who have occupied it.
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| | Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits
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| | This site is dedicated to making portraits and other works of art from the Tudor and Elizabethan era available to everyone for the purpose of research and education. |
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| | Cézanne: Portraits
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| | From the WebMuseum - online images of the portraits of Paul Cézanne. |
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| | Vincent van Gogh: Portraits
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| | From the WebMuseum - online images of the portraits of Vincent van Gogh. |
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| | Portrait Coloring Pages
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| | From Enchanted Learning, printable coloring pages for dozens of classic portraits! |
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| Landscapes |
| | Go West, Young Artist!
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| | This ArtEdventure is a journey back in time and across the American landscape. You will meet half a dozen great American artists and learn about their work. |
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| | Panoramas
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| | All of us are profoundly affected by the landscapes we inhabit. Artists in Mexico, the United States, and Canada have long depicted this powerful attachment to place. The landscape art in this exhibition reflects the natural environment but also our history, our industries, our cultures and our belief systems. |
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| | Landscapes with Carmine!
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| | Learn about landscapes, and create three landscapes online! |
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| | Landscapes - Getty Museum
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| | View over seventy images of significant landscape paintings from the collections of the Getty Museum. |
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| | Edward Hopper: Landscapes
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| | From the WebMuseum, several images of his landscape paintings. |
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| | Paul Cézanne: Landscapes
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| | From the WebMuseum, several images of his landscape paintings. |
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| | Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Landscapes
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| | From the WebMuseum, several images of his landscape paintings. |
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| | Van Gogh - Landscapes
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| | From the WebMuseum, several images of his landscape paintings. |
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