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 * The Arts** toc

**Learning About Landscapes** [|Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery]

Artcyclopedia
[|The Guide to Great Art on the Internet]

Online Drawing and Painting
= = [|Harmony] a nifty site that enables sketching using a variety of styles. Quite fascinating! [|Odosketch] is an online sketching application that can be used to produce quite intricate art works. Completed pictures can be embedded into blogs, wikis, etc. [|Psykopaint] is a photo painting tool which uses the colors of an image to paint. WHY? Just because it is pretty! With a bit of experience you can obtain paintings that can be pretty close from real painting! But you might as well want to explore a bit more and do something more contemporary or abstract. There are endless possibilities! [|Slimber.com] is an online drawing application. It allows users to draw online, replay and save their drawings. Users can rate, comment and share drawings. The Most Rated drawings are rewarded by being featured on the home page. Completed images can be embedded into blogs and wikis [|Crayola Digi-Color] - An excellent site for kids that is very user friendly for creating digital art. [|Art Pad -] A great painting site that records a picture while it's created to create a time lapse effect. [|Bomomo] - A fun site where users can create unique pictures w/ different shaped templates (ie, Pixie). [|Doink] - A great site for creating animated art w/ a web 2.0 flare. [|Sketchpad] - Create excellent painting/drawing w/ this cool site. Lots of different styles, effects, gradients for users to choose. [|Sumo Paint] - One of the most popular digital art creators on the web, very similar to Photoshop. [|Live Brush] - A wonderful free application that lets users create some beautiful looking designs. A great gallery of examples to view too. [|CloudCanvas] CloudCanvas enables creative people to make digital art, design and other rich media right in the web browser. [|Kidopo] Kidopo is an online colouring application where kids can colour online colouring books. The application simulates a real colouring experience (in other words you can colour outside the lines and the more you colour over a spot, the darker it gets.). There are a lot of colouring pages to choose from with categories like animals, cars and transportation, cartoons, food, toys, holidays, learning, circus, sports, music, nature, occupation, seasons, and more. The online colouring book on Kidopo is a great way to help primary students practice mouse manipulation. **Art and Drawing Resources Wiki** Huge number of links and resources to support art and drawing.

Online Art Games
[|This is a LiveBinder file] that links to a very wide range of art activities. Well worth exploring!

Tux Paint
[|Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program] (Mac, Windows or Linux) for children ages 3 to 12. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.

Origami Club
[|Wide range of origami instructions,] from simple to difficult. Instructions can be selected as diagrams or as animations.

Music
[|Monkey Machine is] a free web-based program that allows students to experiment with drum set sounds and rhythms. Using Monkey Machine students can customize the selection of drums and cymbals in their virtual drum set. Monkey Machine also allows students to customize the tempo in their drum tracks and the frequency with which each drum or cymbal is played. All tracks created using Monkey Machine can be downloaded as MIDI files. [|The Science of Music] What is music? Is birdsong music? How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door? Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum? Explore the science of music with us, through these online exhibits, movies, and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all…listen.