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Animation tools for kids

art4kids — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:38:44 -0400

Website URL: http://www.cartoonster.com/

Description:

Cartoonster shares some fun tricks of the trade for basic animation. There are several tutorials and in each one you learn and practice a unique concept. One really great thing about the instruction is they suggest you learn by watching cartoons!

ArtPad

zblofu — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:18:26 -0400

Website URL: http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

Description:

An impressive online paint program that allows you to save your creations by emailing them to yourself and your friends.

We Need Art To Tell Us Who We Are

art4kids — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:09:56 -0400

Published on Friday, April 28, 2006 by the Providence Journal (Rhode Island)

We Need Art To Tell Us Who We Are by Jerry M. Landay

News that the Portsmouth officials have decided to save money by shutting public-school art programs follows on the heels of the Bristol School Board's decision to deal with its budget problems, in part, by letting go a sixth-grade band director.

Zorro has struck again.

Artists Tools

art4kids — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:50:00 -0400

Website URL: http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html

Description:

Very interactive site that explores the elements artists use to create visual art.

The National Gallery of Art -- Kids Site

zblofu — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:21:17 -0400

Website URL: http://www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm

Description:

All sorts of cool interactive art that you can make online. Lots of fun!

The National Gallery of Art

zblofu — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:17:01 -0400

Description:

" The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present."

http://www.nga.gov/

Sense?

art4kids — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:47:11 -0400

Have you ever noticed how when you buy a new to you car you all of a sudden see the same car everywhere? I've been noticing how much information there is for children's art since I've been thinking about it more than usual.

One thing I've noticed is there is a lot of studies, articles, discussions, community outcries and such about the lack of funded art education. Truly amazing.

Where does it end? Will we need to beg for funding for teaching the alphabet? How basic can it get? We, as humans, need to be creative. It keeps us sane and aware of the world on many important levels. Learning how to creatively express oneself is enriching, freeing and affords us the ability to look and feel beyond all the fears of the unknown.

I simply cannot divorce creative expression and the human experience. That we are forcing our children to see art as this "thing" other than who each and everyone of us is seems dangerous. Art is a part of being human.

Just trying to make it make sense. I'll need a lot of creativity for that!