Hints, Tips and Techniques

Hints and techniques to enable you to explore your artistic abilities with water colours, oils, acrylics, pastels and colour mixing. You will find it in the Creative Encyclopedia. Use the drop down box to locate the techniques section.

Crayola Creative Fun

Creative craft ideas for children with instructions from Crayola. There are lesson plans for teachers too.

Web Gallery of Art

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700). You can even take virtual tours such as one to the Cistine Chapel in the Vatican.

Shape Faces

This activity introduces the form of art known as Cubism. It shows how artists use shapes to make abstract pictures. Children can then make their own face in a similar style and print it out if they want. Good interactive whiteboard activity.

LessonSense.com

Lots of teaching resources set around themes. There are craft ideas, worksheets, lesson plans and games. The site hasn't been updated for a while but the ideas are archived.

Edgar Degas

Read the biography of Edgar Degar and view his paintings on this site which features his complete works.

Drawing with Charcoal

An animated step by step guide to creating your own masterpiece using charcoal.

William Morris Gallery - London

The only public museum devoted to probably England's best known designer. Lots of his designs are featured. Find out about free resources for schools.

Mondrimat

You can experiment here with space and colour in accordance with the theories of Piet Mondrian.

The Story of Aboriginal Art

Background Information on the origins of Aboriginal art. The site includes images.