webexhibits.org

webexhibits.org is an interactive museum of science, humanities and culture.

If you click on Pigments Through the Ages for example, you are given the options to 'choose pigments', 'browse colours', 'browse timeline', 'make paintings' or 'look closer'. If you choose 'make paintings', you are given a choice of 'oil paint', 'acrylic', 'tempura', 'pastel' and 'watercolor'. Choose 'watercolor' and the page that opens will give you an overview of the technique and explanation of pigments, how to create your own watercolors and a ten step image of a vase of flowers that illustrates the ten stages used to create a watercolor.

The Colour, Vision and Art and 'Bellini's Feast of the Gods' sections of the 'museum' could also be valuable resources for the Art classroom.

Take some time to explore this resource, you'll be pleased with what you find!

Art Finder

Art Finder is an engaging website which contains interesting and useful resources. For example, if you click onm "Art Shuffle" at the top of the screen a random image of an art work will appear. You can purchase the image, discuss your opinion of the piece, visit the image's source, e,ail the image to a friend or grab its link. Images are also tagged so if one of the tags, for example is portrait, click on the tag and a new window opens revealing thumbnails of protraits from which you can choose.

There's also a site search box for artists and art guides with artists listed alphabetically.

Gustav Klimt

Expo Klimt is a useful but by no means definitive site for viewing Klimt paintings. It does have a number of good features, though.

This link www.expo-klimt.com/1.cfm will take you to the 'museum' section of the site. Note the left hand side of the site (image I've uploaded on your left). This will help you find an image of a Klimt painting according to title, theme, year it was painted or technique.

Click on the down arrow in each box and you will be given a number of options from which to choose. I've chosen 'Portraits of Women'.

If you then click on one of these images, for example 'Goldfish', the image will enlarge and include some details concerning the painting:

There is a video available for $17.99 which could be purchased as a resource:

Coooool Contemporary ARTISTS

Click on the names below to visit some seriously cool contemporary artists:

Ninagawa Mika Official Site - photography
Tim Hawkinson
Contemporary Tibetan Artists
Chris Jordan

Doris Salcedo - installation
Garde Rail Gallery - outsider art

Audrey Kawasaki - interesting style of oil painting
Chris Chomick and Peter Meder = couple who make automatons and dolls
WhalefishStudios - Ben and Jessica

ART MATTERS wiki

ART MATTERS is a fantastic wiki filled with links and Youtube clips that are relevant to Australian Art studies.

The 'Animation' link alone (left hand side of the Homepage) has 11 YouTube clips that have been well selected for their quality and value to the classroom.


But why TELL you all about the wiki when I can show you?

The rest of this post includes some intriguing images that will hopefully whet your appetite and encourage you to explore 'ART MATTERS'.

Draw Your Dream competition for students

Draw Your Dream competition for students

The Age ERC
February 09, 2011

As a proud partner of the Dreams Come True: The Art of Disney's Classic Fairy Tales exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, The Age is pleased to bring your students the 'Draw Your Dreams' competition.

Simply submit a drawing that illustrates your dreams and you could win a major prize as well as having their work displayed in an online gallery on the ACMI website.

The competition is open to all Victorian primary and secondary school students.

In addition to being showcased online, the winner will receive a major prize pack from ACMI.

The major prize includes:

- A family pass to Dreams Come True

- Two family passes to any session of Kids' Flicks at ACMI

- A 12-month ACMI Family membership

- A Dreams Come True catalogue

- A Disney merchandise pack worth $50

- Two Disney DVDs

How to enter:

To enter, email your drawing to creations@theage.com.au along with your name, age and contact details (including postal address and phone number).

Or, post your entry to:

Draw Your Dreams competition
The Age Education Resource Centre
Level 4
655 Collins Street
Docklands VIC 3008


Entries close Friday,
March 11, 2011.

Good luck!

Google Art Project

Welcome to 2011, everyone.

Google's Art Project is a powerful webtool that allows you to access a multitude of Art Museums world Wide.

If you click on the up arrow (above 'The Frick Collection New York City) or down arrow (below the yellow highlighted 'The State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg' that make up part of the list in the image to the left you will discover even more museums BUT, you will need to go to the actual site to do so as the image to left is only a copy, not an active site :)

Click on Google's Art Project to access the site.

Once you've arrived at the site, if you click on a specific museum, e.g. Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, the picture will change to one that exists in that museum for e.g. The Bedroom.

If you click on 'View Artwork) beneath the painting, the piece will enlarge for you.

If you use the small image at the bottom right of the screen (I have cropped the image of the screen so don't worry if Van Gogh's painting is cropped in this example) which has a 'slide' - ______________ + capacity to make the image larger or smaller, you can zoom in on details for youir students, for example: Below is a detail from 'The Bedroom'.

Note that the 'slide' is halfway instead of overe to the left in the previous image.

If you click on the 'Van Gogh Museum' writing at the top left of the screen, you will be given a virtual image of the museum itself. You can navigate using the 'compass' at the top left of the screen and also using the 'arrows' that appear in front of the paintings. You can also zoom in and out using the + and - provided beneath the 'compass'. You can navigate to another museum by using the V arrow to the right of the 'Van Gogh Museum' title and you can navigate from painitng to painting within the collection by using the V arrow to the right of 'The bedroom Vincent van Gogh' title at the top of the screen. Whilst in the virtual museum mode, you can also navigate using the floor plan, the link titled: 'floor plan' appears at the top right hand of the screen. There is also a multitude of other useful information available in this mode

Have fun! :)