Quotes
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Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overwhelming interest in humanity. Even if I'm not workin…
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overwhelming interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
Alice Neel
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent VanGogh
People want to find a "meaning" in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
Pablo Picasso
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Leonardo DaVinci
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Andy Warhol
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has
Salvador Dali
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." ~ Edgar Degas
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." ~ Eugene Delacroix
"The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools." ~Thomas Eakins
"A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places."
~ Paul Gardner
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." ~ Paul Gaugin
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my reality." ~ Frida Kahlo
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." ~ Michelangelo
Art Games
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**A Lifetime of Color** - a great page of art activities by Sanford & a Lifetime of Color.
A. Pintura: Art Detective. Learn art history while playing detective
**A Place of Our Own**- A collection of creative activities for preschool children.
{new.gif} New! **Albright-Knox Art Games**- An interactive website for kids ages 4 - 12.
**Art Access**- an interactive site by the Art Institute of Chicago. Hear audio pronunciations of art terms and study artists.
**Art Games**- Play various games online. Produced by Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
**Art Games**- This page by Artificial.dk includes at least 16 games you can play online.
**Art Games Online**- A collection of online art games by About.com.
Artists Helping Children - Children & Art Resources for the Budding Child Artist- provided by Artists Helping Children - a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing comfort to children in hospitals, clinics, and shelters by brightening their environment with murals and other art.
Art Just for Kids - IAD's link to art appreciation - art history - museum "trips" - online games and projects - fun things to do.
**ARTcapades** with K-3 bilingual online activities and lessons.
**ArtPad**- a great online painting program that allows you to select a brush and color, and paint away. You can view the paintings of other visitors as well as e-mail your painting to others.
Artsology: Culture for Kids Open your minds to new ideas. Fun activities and games for kids - test your knowledge. Art History Match Game - Rodin's Thinker's Thoughts - Frans Hals' Portraits
**The 5 Art History Quiz**, with questions about art, art about religion and more. Questions change each month.
Bomono- Create pictures using patterns that you create with buttons, pointing and clicking.
Carlos' Coloring Book Home, where you can color holiday pictures with your web browser.
**Carmine's Introduction to Color**- This site has activities that help younger students learn about color. There are several other sections such as landscape adventure and Carmine's Portraits.
Cartooning Lessons, basic lessons by Glen Wyand and Sara Jordan.
Chunky Monkey Cartoon Lessons, with a few lessons on animal cartoons.
**Collage Machine** Presented with a blank work screen, visitors can peruse the collection of objects, colors and shapes offered and then drag them onto their workspace. After doing so, the images can be manipulated in a variety of ways. Get ready for hours of fun! Try the Auto selection, too, and see what pops up. All "kid safe" images.
Color Test- See if your right brain and left brain are working together. Select the COLOR of the word not the word.
**Colour a Rangoli Pattern**- Color an Indian Rangoli pattern online.
**Colour Your Profile**- Children and adults can colour objects and then have their work graded for colour symbolism. This is more of an excercise in colour symbolism rather than colouring.
Cosmeo- Features online art games by Discovery Education.
**Curious Corner**- Several online art games by the Art Institute of Chicago. See the mask maker, cornell boxes, create portraits, and match shapes, textures, and sounds.
Drawing Drawer- Art teacher Marty Reid has a long list of things students can do when they get done early.
**Dr. Seuss**- Click on the Playground link for many games. Also see **What Color are your Days**, **Make Your Own Bookmark**, and **Things to do on a Rainy Day.**
**Dreamzone**- You can "evolve" existing art by adding to a collection of pictures. It includes a sizable brush and color palette.
EagleKids, where you can find a coloring book, art contest, and eagle art gallery.
Facemaker, where you can create a face online. This site takes awhile to load.
[[@http://freerice.com/index.php?&t=20739180937&s=Famous Paintings|Free Rice]]- Answer questions about famous artists and for each answer you get right, they donate 20 grains of rice throught the UN World Food Program.
[[../lessons/middle/freetime.htm|Free Time Activities]]- IAD's List of free time activities submitted by teachers.
{new.gif} New! **Game Boards**- A collection of free game boards and games by Jefferson Country Schools.
**Garden of Praise**- with art appreciation lessons for kids.
**Getting to Know.com**- A collection of free curriculum guides and activities.
Getty Games- A great page of games created by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
**Ghosts, Ghouls, and Goblins**- With Halloween activities, games, webquests, and more.
**Go West Young Artist**- Go back in time and visit with artists through time in America.
**Graffiti Creator**- Create your own graffiti online. You can choose a font and fill it with graffiti.
**Halloween Games & Puzzles**- A lesson page from Kaboose.
**Hampshire Museum**- Several painting puzzes and exploration of patterns. Unfortunately, it only works on Windows.
Haring Kids- With interactive activities that relate to the late graffiti artist Keith Haring.
[[../lessons/high/artgames.htm|IAD's Art Games and Activities]]- This page includes activity ideas from art teachers from around the world.
**IAD's Christmas Page**- with lessons and activitites
IAD's Drawing Drawer Ideas- What to do when students get done earlyl.
**IAD's Easter Page**- with lessons and activities
IAD's Halloween- with lessons and activities
{new.gif} New! IAD's Pointillator- Read about the art of Seurot and then create a pointillism picture.
IAD's Valentine's Day- with lessons and activities
**IAD's St. Patrick's Day**- with lessons and activities
{new.gif} New! Interactivate Tessellate!- You can create your own tessellations onine.
How to Draw a Cartoon Character- by Gary Harbo. Nice Site!
**International Child Art foundation**- They have games and puzzles.
**Jackson Pollock.org**- Move your mouse around and create a Jackson Pollock-like painting.
**Jigsaw**- You can create your own jigsaw puzzles online. Create puzzles from works of art.
KIDLINK - Online activities for students. How do you want the world to be a better place? Lots to see and do on this site - kids' art music and more.
**Kim and Jason: The Comic Strip About Childhood**. By Jason Kotecki. The site has the daily comic strip, which follows the misadventures of two young children trying to make straight the crooked world of grown-ups.
{new.gif} New! Leonardo's Workshop- Learn about Leonardo Da Vinci while have fun doing it.
**Library of Congress Learning Page**- You can find lots of game and activities here.
Make-a-Flake- Create snow flakes online and save the patterns to your computer.
**Make Belief Comics**- You can create your own comic strip online here.
Mandala Maker From Girls Go Tech - Girl Scouts. To save your mandala to file, click Print Screen - then paste into new file in your photo editing software. Crop the image down to five inch square. You can use lasso tool to cut out the remaining label in corner. -More Games
**Mark Kistler's Imagination Station!** - 3-D Drawing Lessons!
Math Tesselations, created an online design using geometric shapes
**Mentisworks**- A blog with art games
Mind's Eye Monster Exchange Project, for fun monster art lessons and a collection of student galleries.
More Than Math- These games use math to teach art.
**Mr. Picasso Head**- Where you can drag and drop facial features to create a Picasso image.
National Museum Liverpool - Portrait Interactive Lots to learn here - Try it! You will have fun testing your knowledge of how to read a painting.
**NGAkids**- Create paintings online and more!
Nick Jr.- A page of online art games featuring cartoons on Nick Jr. television.
{new.gif} New! **Odosketch**- You can create your own online sketches and see the sketches of others. You can also view a slideshow of sketches in action.
**Online Activities/Art Safari**- with interactive online lessons.
**Pac Mondrian**- Move Pac Man around a Mondrian maze. This one is fun!
{new.gif} New! Paint with the Pointillator!- IAD's online activity where students can create a pointillism painting.
Paper Airplanes on the Internet, Check these sites selected by Surfing the net with Kids.
{new.gif} New! Pencilmation- This site has a collection of funny cartoons that motivates students to draw.
PixelFace- You can draw an online picture using Flash art tools.
Planet Perplex- With optical illlusions, hidden images, surrealism, and art picture puzzles.
**Quia**- Where you can do a search for art activities. You can also do a **color theory crossword puzzle**, an **elements of art puzzle**, **principles of design puzzle** and **matching art terms** game.
**Renaissance Connection**- A great site with games, quizes, lessons and resources on the Renaissance.
**Rollip**- Create Polaroids from your own photos for download or print.
**SceneCaster**- Create 3D scenes and explore what others have created.
Scribbler - Turn scribbles into art - Have fun playing
**smARTkids**- Play puzzles online by Discovery Education.
**Study Sphere**- A collection of online art games.
**Surfing the Net with Kids**- They have a number of art games there.
Tate Kids Art Detective- Find clues and solve art mysteries online.
**The Color.com**- An online coloring book. Kids can learn the names of 192 colors while they're coloring.
Uncle Fred's Coloring book and other art games.
Virtual Jack-O-Lantern- You can carve pumpkins online!
**Walker Art Center** has interactive art activities categorized by grade level.
**Warhol: Online Factory**- Create silkscreens online while learning how Andy Warhol created his art.
Widgetbox- These are widgets you can add to browsers and social websites such as MySpace and Facebook.
YouDraw The aim of this website is to show what 6 billion people look like by producing 12,000 copies of a book of 500,000 human figures drawn by visitors to the site. Help the creators of YouDraw achieve their goal by using the interactive drawing pad available on the site. For children and adults.
Youth Arts- All sorts of art related topics. They don't understand that the background color of a website must contrast with the text, but otherwise you'll find some useful links.
Zwinky- Turn yourself into a cartoon. Dress the character, put make-up on change hair styles, etc. Sorry, but only old versions of Windows works on this.
