Philanthropic Extension

http://freerice.com/category

You are probably very familair with the philanthropic 'Free Rice' website which donates rice according to the number of vocabulary words you get right but did you know that the website also offers other subjects. As you can see above there are a number of categories which could be used as extension, homework tasks or revision in some cases. You might even decide to set a test based on the website.  It's a whole lot of fun, I've tried it and enjoyed it thoroughly.

Online Interactive Art

The Brunswick Acres Art blog offers some great online interactive activities you might like to try.

Like the Look? It can be achieved with your photosusing the Percolator app. The name derives from the coffee making process, you literally add bubbles of varying sizes to your images achieving interesting results with a little practice. For more examples of work created using the app go to the Flickr Percolator pool

webexhibits.org

webexhibits.org is an interactive museum of science, humanities and culture.

If you click on Pigments Through the Ages for example, you are given the options to 'choose pigments', 'browse colours', 'browse timeline', 'make paintings' or 'look closer'. If you choose 'make paintings', you are given a choice of 'oil paint', 'acrylic', 'tempura', 'pastel' and 'watercolor'. Choose 'watercolor' and the page that opens will give you an overview of the technique and explanation of pigments, how to create your own watercolors and a ten step image of a vase of flowers that illustrates the ten stages used to create a watercolor.

The Colour, Vision and Art and 'Bellini's Feast of the Gods' sections of the 'museum' could also be valuable resources for the Art classroom.

Take some time to explore this resource, you'll be pleased with what you find!

Art Finder

Art Finder is an engaging website which contains interesting and useful resources. For example, if you click onm "Art Shuffle" at the top of the screen a random image of an art work will appear. You can purchase the image, discuss your opinion of the piece, visit the image's source, e,ail the image to a friend or grab its link. Images are also tagged so if one of the tags, for example is portrait, click on the tag and a new window opens revealing thumbnails of protraits from which you can choose.

There's also a site search box for artists and art guides with artists listed alphabetically.

Gustav Klimt

Expo Klimt is a useful but by no means definitive site for viewing Klimt paintings. It does have a number of good features, though.

This link www.expo-klimt.com/1.cfm will take you to the 'museum' section of the site. Note the left hand side of the site (image I've uploaded on your left). This will help you find an image of a Klimt painting according to title, theme, year it was painted or technique.

Click on the down arrow in each box and you will be given a number of options from which to choose. I've chosen 'Portraits of Women'.

If you then click on one of these images, for example 'Goldfish', the image will enlarge and include some details concerning the painting:

There is a video available for $17.99 which could be purchased as a resource:

Coooool Contemporary ARTISTS

Click on the names below to visit some seriously cool contemporary artists:

Ninagawa Mika Official Site - photography
Tim Hawkinson
Contemporary Tibetan Artists
Chris Jordan

Doris Salcedo - installation
Garde Rail Gallery - outsider art

Audrey Kawasaki - interesting style of oil painting
Chris Chomick and Peter Meder = couple who make automatons and dolls
WhalefishStudios - Ben and Jessica