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| The Homeschool Diner's Guide to The Arts for Homeschoolers On-Line Enrichment – Visual Arts by Julie Shepherd Knapp, copyright 2006 [Originally published in the July/August issue of the "MCGT Outlook", the bi-monthly newsletter of the Minnesota Council of the Gifted and Talented, Vol.28, No.3] Trying to work more art into your child's homeschool curriculum? The Internet is a great place to find project ideas, instructional tips, and creative inspiration. Check out a few of these fun and educational resources for a nice dose of art enrichment. Interactive Fine Art Experiences Red, Yellow, Blue – a color experience for toddlers to Kindergarten Inside Art – dive into a painting (K-6) The Artist’s Toolkit – Minneapolis Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art – museum activities and games ArtWorkshop:Sculpture – lessons and project ideas Baltimore Museum of Art – click on “Matisse for Kids” dog A Lifetime of Color -- fun activities for K-8th Turner Gallery from Interactica.com -- click on an art work, then use the mouse to create a similar work Hands-On Virtual Art Kaleidoscope Painter and byokal and fractals13 -- kaleidoscope makers National Gallery of Art Kids Zone – 7 cool art-makers Make A Flake and Create a Flake and Snowflake and Paper Snowflakes -- make snowflakes, all sorts Large Encylcogram – virtual Spirograph Mr. Picasso Head – a good chuckle for all ages Sketch Swap -- sketch a picture and receive one in return! Etch-a-Sketch Art – there is a virtual Etch-a Sketch, too art.com -- a virtual paint pad Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas -- make a pollock-like masterpiece tinygrow -- click to create bizarre landscapes and eyeballs... (click "cancel" to downloading language pack option -- you won't need it) string spin by zefrank -- like a 3D spirograph flowers -- groovy 3D Morovian Stars -- from paper Make your own e-Cards by zefrank and lotsofwires Artists' Websites A wide selection of media and styles... I have made an effort to present artists whose works, when I viewed them, seemed appropriate for all ages, but please double-check all links for appropriateness before allowing children to click on them. Websites can change owners without warning, and artists can change their style and content over time, and throughout their website. Children’s Haiku Garden – original art and poetry by kids Dale Chihuly’s website – “eye candy” out of glass George Hart’s Website - geometric “eye candy” Jennifer Maestre -- very spiky nail sculptures and pencil sculptures Paco Rosic -- amazing work with spray paint Guido Daniel -- turns hands into animals! Elizabeth Berrien -- amazing wire sculpture Exhibition of High Speed Photography -- amazing stop-action photos Snow and Ice festivals: Harbin, China -- amazing ice and snow sculptures World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska Dirty Car Art by Scott Wade -- drawn into the grime on car windows Starship Dimensions by Jeff Russell -- compares relative sizes of fictional starcraft to each other, Eiffel Tower, Apollo craft, etc. Porcelain castings by Makoto Komatsu Sarah Jane Brown -- very fun wire knitting David Goode -- bronze goblin sculptures Graffiti Grapher - history of graffiti as an art form, includes a cartesian graphing applet that helps create letters mathematically Life-Size Works in Drift Wood by Heather Jansch Ralph Goings -- amazing realism in watercolors Nathan Sawaya -- Lego sculptures Kennith Humphrey -- boldly colored oils and acrylics Bathsheba Sculpture -- where math, chemistry, and sculpture meet Renee Harris -- fiber artist, felted wool with embroidery Fractal World Gallery by Cory Ench -- beautiful... Sultans of Sand -- sand sculpture artists, photos of events Sandsational Sand Sculpting -- more sand sculpture Gary Carleson -- 3D medical/biological illustration Aaron Jasinski -- graphic illustrator, an interesting "display" of paintings Noli Novak -- pen and ink stipple artist Raquel Aparicio -- pen and ink and collage illustrations The Art of American Rock by Sébastien Chevrel -- a continuous random collage of poster art A4Paper Cut -- all created from a single piece of paper Fish Faces and more Fish Faces! David Delthony -- wooden sculptured furniture David C. Roy -- kinetic wood sculptures Willard Wigen -- microscopic art Rufus Butler Seder Life Tiles -- tiles that appear animated Artsy Video Clips Websites often reorganize and can also change ownership without notice. Please double-check all links for appropriateness *before allowing children to click on them* 1 Week of Artwork -- video clip, a mural evolves/devolves/evolves... Fabrication d'armure medieval -- a You Tube video of the process of hammering a breast plate out of sheet metal Blue Ball Machine -- follow the bouncing ball... The Zoom Quilt -- an elaborate Escher-like interactive drawing Pipe Dream -- animated music machine by Animusic (buy the DVD here ) Wind-Powered Kinetic Sculpture by Theo Jansen -- 20 minute video clip Give VW a Hand -- great hand shadow art MS Paint Car -- from pixelgod.net, done to music |
| “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” -- Pablo Picasso |