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Texas Art Supply
Art Supply Place, some
homeschoolers really like them:
Lots of link to
quality art supplies
Origami
Origami-Diagrams
Joseph Wu's Origami
Page
This site prompts kids to explore paintings and sculptures from the
Museum of Modern Art. A
series of questions guides children to write about what they see.
Then, kids are encouraged create and submit their own art. Grade
Level: Elementary
Art Encyclopedia: A nice site
for samples of various artists works and other resources.
Art Mystery:
Student has to determine the artist of a mystery painting by
exploring the techniques and subjects of different artists such as
Van Gogh, Raphael, Picasso.
Inside Art:
Student "goes into" a Van Gogh painting and learns about art with
the help of "Trish the Fish". Focuses on Van Gogh's role as the link
between the Impressionists and Expressionists painters.
Stanford Art
Activities: Other art exploration activities
Homeschool Art:
Here's what Kristina had to say about this site: Cool site! Kids
will love it if they are into...Or could be into art (of all
kinds).
Artists' Biographies: This site offers biographies of famous
artists. The biographies are not in depth, but do have links to
further information.
These sites are from Donna Godfrey with her notes:
The Art
of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
A
Trip to France From the living room ;-)
Art of the World-Visit Hawaii Find out how to create a volcano,
a lei, batik and more. . .
Art Teacher on the Net
This is an easy index of project ideas--Just click and you will be
on the page of directions for the Project.
Art of the United States
Lots of Projects & Links to Important Museums
Art of the World
Art Projects-Russia You find links to Russian Icons, Fairy Tales,
and Project Ideas (Make a Russian Lacquer Plate)
From other Great Moms:
Art Apprecation (The Charlotte Mason Way)
My own
favorite Art History resource on the Web
The Kimbell Art Museum has a
lovely web presence, you can view their collection and read the
history of each painting.~Jube
Dr. Witcombe
also has a link to Carol Jackson-Gerten's site which is magnificent
in its scope, and in the quality of the scans. She has an
interesting section re. the Crusades, as chronicled through art.
See Also the Museums Page