Google SketchUp 6 

A 3D modeling software tool that’s easy to learn, simple to use, a good tool to the Technical Drawing teacher… and Art teacher too during a lesson. Makes drawing examples easy. Google SketchUp makes it faster, easier and a lot more fun for the student too! While learning intreractively. From simple to complex, from conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp helps you see your design before you build it and see it from all angles. This is a program that can be downloaded and installed for FREE!

http://sketchup.google.com/index.html 

Using Blender 3D for Modeling, Rendering and Animation

With the fast pace ICT is getting into our educational curriculum, the art student today can do more than traditional art and craft, with the computer. Check out this site on introduction to Three-Dimensional Modeling, Animation and Rendering Using Blender 3D 2.4 software. It has a series of twelve seminars with PDF tutorials and video input to giude through the rich  tools and abilities of Blender 3D in computer generated 3-D modeling and animation.. Check out the Learning Units!

Blender is an open source software.  Must have Real Media Player and Adobe Reader installed in your computer.

“Like many creative activities, 3-dimensional design and modeling combines technical skill with artistic imagination. Understanding the intricacies of software-manipulated objects is of little value unless accompanied with a strong awareness of creative self-expression. It is important while progressing through this course to focus your efforts on the creative projects and understand that the Video and PDF tutorials are but a set of tools whose value is totally dependent on a creative and artistic goal.”

This course was designed by Tufts University for the Summer of 2006                                   http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/28/Coursehome                                  

The Potters Wheel: Learning how to throw!

Many of you think it is magic when a cup or vessel, suddenly ‘rises’ before your eyes in a matter of minutes. This pictorial site demystifies this age old craft for the everyday student. Here are step by step pictorial instractions (with notes) of how to start from preparing clay, to removing the finished vessel. Makes it easy, visit the site.

http://www.goshen.edu/%7Emarvinpb/throw/cover39.html 

Teaching and Learning ceramics and pottery

Welcome to www.teachpottery.net 

A Site for Teaching and Learning the Basics of Working with Clay

Students, this site has assignments to give you the information you need in order to do these assignments on your own, so if you don’t have a teacher you can still learn about ceramics. Has teachers’ help towards lesson plans and more.

An Index of Art and Design sites

http://explore.ecb.org/education/surf_report?subject=1

A selection of art sites to browse during the summer. Find information on art education, art lesson plans and activities as well as images to illustrate a lesson or your students want graphics for multimedia presentations. Also you will have the ability to visit Art Galleries from many online museums without leaving your chair.

Design Projects and Ideas

Love to create? Dig into these design tips and tutorials, makeovers, ideas, techniques, and supplies for anything you can do with desktop publishing software. Learn how to create logos, brochures, business cards, greeting cards, Web pages, ads, presentations, annual reports, packaging, signs, business forms, and just about anything that can be designed and put on screen on in print. Your classroom, artroom, will never be the same again.

Artlex- an online art dictionary
Welcome to an online dictionary very useful for artists, students and art educators in art production, critic, history, aesthetics, and education.
These thousands of visual art terminologies and definitions are accompanied by thousands of supporting images and cross-references among other things.

Just follow the index (on the left of each page) which has a list of shortcuts that will lead to more explanations.

St Henry’s College Kitovu, Uganda- Virtual Art Gallery
http://shackartdepartment.blogstream.com/
This site has been put together to share with art students of other secondary schools the delights of art students of St Henry’s College Kitovu. Please take a ’walk’ around the gallery and do leave a comment or critic on these student art works in drawing, painting, graphics and crafts.
More art works are still being uploaded.
Kasujja Henry
Head of Department-Art

Painting: Art Studio Chalkboard
http://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/paint.html
Online guide sheets on colour and painting, including such topics as:-

• The Colour Wheel and Colour Complements
• Colour Saturation and Intensity
• Colour Mixing in Light, Pigment and Optics
• How to Stretch a Canvas
• Ground Preparations
• Introduction to Painting Tools
• The Painting Process
• Manipulation of the Painting Surface (Impasto & Glaze)
• Oil Painting Modifiers and Varnishes
• Characteristics of Common Pigments
• Notes on Oil Painting
• Notes on Acrylic Painting
• Egg Tempera

…and more. Check it out, you will not regret!

Perspective Drawing
Drawing:  An index page showing an introduction and some hints about using linear perspective. One, two and three point perspective; along with use of horizon lines and vanishing .points. Plus Shading (Value), and Compositional Models in drawing and sketching. This is an introductional information to any young artist in drawing using the Art Studio Chalkboard