Links to fantastic web sites
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Google Art Project is absolutely awesome. You can virtually tour 32,000 artworks from 46 museums including the Tate Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Uffizi, Florence. You can walk through galleries, create your own collection, view notes and learn about an art piece,
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project |
Tate WebQuests is a British web based exploration of art history and forms. It's directed to kids but I found it interesting and informative. You'll love it as much as your kids will.
http://nmolp.tate.org.uk/webquests/ |
Christie's Auctions is a wonderful site to browse if you, like me, have an uncontrollable obsession to look at beautiful art.
http://www.christies.com/ |
Web Gallery of Art is an virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 33.900 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, and period music,
http://www.wga.hu/index.html |
Gurney Journey is a daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney. Mr. Gurney writes about so many artsy topics that I find myself losing time as I read. His intelligent, informative and imaginative posts are a must read for any artist.
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
The Museum of Bad Art (MoBA) is art too bad to be ignored and is dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all it's forms.
http://www.museumofbadart.org/
http://www.museumofbadart.org/
Van Gogh Art Techniques
http://www.vangoghreproductions.com/art-techniques/van-gogh-art-techniques.html
http://www.vangoghreproductions.com/art-techniques/van-gogh-art-techniques.html
Art and Influence
A blog by Armand Cabrera covering a wide variety of subjects for artists.
http://www.artandinfluence.com/
A blog by Armand Cabrera covering a wide variety of subjects for artists.
http://www.artandinfluence.com/
Virtual Tours & Museums
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/webtours.shtm MoMA - Museum of Modern Art http://www.moma.org/ |
The Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/ |
Web Sites for Artists
Online color mixing recipes from Sensual Logic. PaletteMaker for generating a palette from a GIF file.
http://sensuallogic.com/paintmaker/Online.html |
Understanding Color Temperature Relationships by Georgetown Atelier/Tenaya Sims
http://georgetownatelier.com/tutorials/figure-trois-crayons/ |
Adobe Color Wheel
Create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations.
https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
Create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations.
https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/