Title: Studies in Art

Subject: Art
Level: High School: All levels
Intended Audience: Secondary Art Instructors
Brief Description: Resources for visual art, computer art, and art history instruction

Topic One: Visual Art/ Fine Art
Computer programs (2):

CorelDraw!9
Adobe Photoshop
Corel Painter Classic
Sensiva
Adobe Illustrator
Lumena

Web Resources (5):

CraftsFair Online (www.craftsfaironline.com/ideas.html)  This site holds many ideas for hands-on crafts and artistic projects for any age.

Dick Blick Art Materials (http://www.dickblick.com/)  This site provides access to a huge variety of art materials and supplies, which can be ordered online or from a catalog.

ArtDeadline.com (http://artdeadline.com/)  This site is an excellent guide to current exhibitions and contests available for artists to enter or get involved in.

 The Louisville Visual art Association (http://www.louisvillevisualart.org)  Encourages   the creation of art, provides visual art education, advocates today’s visual art and artists, leads collaboration of community organizations, increases visual art opportunities, and contributes to Louisville's cultural identity.

Wanna Learn.com– (http://www.wannalearn.com/Fine_Arts/Visu...) Free, online tutorials, lessons, guides, plus various instructional and resource sites to help you learn to paint in oils, acrylics and watercolors.  

Visual Art Production (http://www.v-a-p.com/)  Visual Art Production is a new generation full service bureau for all types of graphic design. The company is located in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden. VAP produces advanced special effects, 2D- and 3D- animations for film and TV commercials, music, etc.
 

Videos (2):

Basic Perspective Drawing Gerald Brommer introduces linear perspective, demonstrating the need to see perspective in order to draw it. One point, two point, and three point perspective drawings are shown using boxes, landscapes, and buildings as subjects. In his final demonstration, he shows how to draw plates, cups, tires, glasses, and bottles in perspective.

CP-899      26 minutes/color      $24.95  http://www.aandfvideo.com/htmlpages/artskills.htm

Experimental Water Media Stephen Quiller explores imaginative new ways to add interest to their paintings. Watercolor is combined with graphite and charcoal, colored pencils, pastels, and oil pastels resulting in a variety of special effects and abstract forms. Collage with tissue and torn paper as well as newspaper are added to watercolor in a mixed media painting. Quiller also demonstrates a landscape painting utilizing some of these experimental techniques.     

CP-888      16 minutes/color      $24.95

http://www.aandfvideo.com/htmlpages/artskills.htm

 

Other:

Sensiva Drawing pad (to use with paint programs for more precise marks; drawing pen acts as the computer mouse)
Scanner (for scanning drawn images to import into Paint programs for enhancement)

Topic Two: Computer Art
Computer programs (2):

Adobe Premiere
SoundForge (for creating audio files to use with multimedia presentations)
Macromedia Director
Microsoft PowerPoint
HyperStudio 4
AutoCad
3D Animation Studio
Microsoft Publisher

Web Resources (5):

Museum of Computer Art– (http://www.museumofcomputerart.com)    Features fractals, raytraced art, photo manipulations, and digital animations by various artists.

Artists Own Ecards– (http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=ar...) Ring of artists offering original images as free virtual greetings. Sites offer photography, colored pencil drawings, and computer art.

Computer Arts Web Tutorials– (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/...)  Web design techniques, step-by-step tutorials. Get results with professional techniques and the latest, cutting edge technologies covers HTML, Flash, Dreamweaver and JavaScript.

Kaleidoscapes– (http://www.kaleidoscapes.net)   High tech geometric environments for theme parks, nightclubs and entertainment centers. Includes pictures, computer art and contact information.

Computer Arts Online– (http://www.computerarts.co.uk)  The ultimate resource site for graphic designers with free downloads, in-depth tutorials, news, interviews, galleries, exclusive competitions, message board and information.

 
Videos (2):

 

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Other:

digital camera (recommended Sony Mavica)
digital cam corder
Video Capture Card (for transferring analog video from a VHS player to digital video)

Topic Three: Art History

Computer programs (2):

ArtLotto© is THE art game you've been waiting for! It's fun and educational. An easy way to absorb art history simply matching famous paintings created by the most famous world masters to their titles. You can glide effortlessly from the LEARN mode to the PLAY mode. The new improved version 2.1 of the program features information about 20 of the historical masters of art in an entertaining, easy-to-grasp fashion. Anyone can learn and become pro in no time! Art Lotto 2.1 is now available on CD for only $14.95!

 
Web Resources (5):

 WebMuseum (www.sunsite.unc.edu/wm/)  This site has numerous links as well as full color pictures of famous artwork from all periods of art history.

The Victorian Costume Page (www.victoriancostume.com) This site shows authentic costumes from the Victorian Era in Great Britain.

Art History Search– (http://www.arthistorysearch.com) This site examines the importance of art history through articles of criticism, activities, and education as well as art news and important art history links.

Art History 101– (http://www.best.com/~natalew/Art.html)    " ... On this page you will find a crash course on just what there is to know about Art." It includes, " Periods and Movements & Basic Art Definitions"

Art History Resources on the Web: Prehistory– (http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHprehistoric....)   A directory of Prehistoric art divided by time period.

Videos (2):

Art Made Easy: Let's Discover Art History!

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Pollock (a movie about the life of artist Jackson Pollock)

Other:

overhead projector (for showing transparencies of artwork)
slide projector (for showing slides of student work and master artwork)

Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Renaissance and Modern Art
by Richard G. Tansey, et al
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General Resources:

Computer programs (2):

Microsoft Word (Word processing program for writing research papers on artists)

Microsoft Publisher (Desktop publishing software, used to incorporate original artwork into real life applications, such as newsletters, brochures, etc.)

 
Web Resources (5):

National Art Education Association (www.naea-reston.org/) (Association for Arts Educators)

ArtsEdge (www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/artsedge.html)   (National arts education dissemination network, which offers lesson plans, curriculum planning information and other resources)

Egypt and the Ancient Near East–(http://asmar.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZ...) Directory of web resources from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. Includes links for students and teachers.

Art Education Internet Resources K12–(http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/arteduca...)       Resource for teachers, librarians, parents and students to find information on art history, art museums, lesson plans, organizations, government agencies, journals, reference, techniques and other subject areas.

Melissa’s Myriad Art Education–(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8020/art...)   Information on discipline-based art education plus K-12 lesson plans, FAQs and links.

Ask Eric- (http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/res.cgi/Su...)   Database of art education links, including lesson plans, discussion groups and organizations.
 

Art Lesson Plans–(http://www2.justnet.ne.jp/~kawasimaqa/ar...) These are Lesson Plans in Arts Education. Also, it is gathering " the time of the synthetic learning " from the activities such as the environment OBJ DO, information OBJ DO and international understanding to make. Moreover, it is introducing a paper with art education and the amount, and a way of putting together a time 10, the viewpoint of the evaluation and so on, too.
 

Teaching Art from a Global Perspective –(http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests...)    Digest provided by the Educational Resources Information Center.
 

Videos (2):

Art Education Videos - Producer of teaching videos to develop painting and drawing skills. Located in the UK.
http://www.art-education.co.uk 

Crystal Productions - Art education resource materials such as posters, prints, videos, multimedia packs, CD-ROMs, books, videodiscs and games, for elementary, secondary and college-level teaching.
http://www.crystalproductions.com

 
Other:

Mainstreams of Modern Art (Canaday) textbook about trends, art, and artists from 1900 to present.

Sister Wendy’s 1000 Masterpieces Full color prints of master artworks from various time periods in art history.

Designing and Painting for the Theatre (Hole, Rinehart, Winston) Textbook about Theatrical Scene Design