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Art isn’t just about paper and paints, in this day and age we mustn’t neglect that newest of art forms – digital art. It’ll be interesting to see whether the arrival of the computer in the late 20th century turns out to have a similar effect as that of the arrival of photography on artists in the 19th century. Then, arguably, it helped to kick-start the arrival of abstract art – after all, who could compete with a camera when it came to representation. Artists had to paint something else, something that a camera, concerned only with surface reality, could not achieve – inner truths, emotions, etc. Even in representational art it encouraged new ways of seeing, new ways of composing a picture. There can be a somewhat snobbish attitude to digital art, an attitude that takes it less seriously, and regards it as somehow less skilful, than ‘real’ art. Certainly it throws up new challenges, new potential, new issues to explore – for example where does the role of the artist and that of the computer start and finish? There are also issues of long-term preservation, and of copyright, and then there are the artists who are exploring and blurring the boundaries between the more traditional techniques of fine art, and those of digital art…. Encouraging children to try out and experiment with this newest of art forms can expand their creative horizons, and help develop their computer skills. The internet is a vast place, continuously growing at a rapid pace, and there is lots out there to help children develop their digital creativity. So I have put together a select list of some of the best that I’ve come across so far: Digital Colouring There is no shortage of sites that allow you to colour in an image digitally, and because I’m sure you’ll have come across them, I’m not going to list any here. They are great for young kids, as they get a pleasing result very easily, and can then be printed off. They may need a little help to get the hang of what to do, but it’s great hand-eye co-ordination practice, and gets them familiar with using a computer mouse. However, in addition to the onscreen colouring, there are also some sites which allow you to create your own ‘customised’ colouring sheets, by combining a variety of motifs and backgrounds as you see fit: http://www.crayola.com includes this as one of the elements on its site, which also includes lots of ideas for art and craft activities. http://www.haringkids.com – If you like Keith Haring’s artwork, his website also has a section where you can create and digitally colour your own colouring sheet in the style of his artwork. This one is great for young and old alike. Digital Drawing & Painting Beyond digital colouring, the next stage is digital drawing and painting, where you create a composition of your own. It can be tricky to control the mouse for this kind of drawing (it’s much easier if you use a digital drawing tablet) but it’s fine for playing about with abstract scribbles or simple drawings. However some sites will also allow you to create compositions using drag and drop and a range of motifs that you can combine or customise at will. http://www.tate.org.uk/kidsOne of the most entertaining elements of this site is an interactive facility to create your own street art on an empty brick wall – great fun for budding Banksys. It also includes a number of other artistic games, with added art history education along the way, and the ability to create your own gallery choosing favourite works from the Tate collection, or allowing children to upload their own work to share with the world. http://www.artisancam.org.uk This site is well worth a visit – it’s not intended just for kids, but it includes a whole range of art and craft activities. There are games to create your own pop art and cartoon art, a children’s book to create, and lots of other entertaining online creative activities. http://www.kerpoof.com– owned and operated by Disney, this site has a number of online drawing tools, including the ability to create your own animated movie, and create your own story book which you can print out. In addition to these there are quite a few online drawing applications, of varying characteristics and levels of sosphistication: http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/ Create a simple scribble, and then sit back and watch it ‘develop’ further – it’s quite entertaining to see what’s created from your original scribble. http://artpad.art.com I liked this one, because it’s very simple, and allows you to splash paint around with a bucket as well as using a brush. At the end you can ‘frame’ it and post it to the online gallery to share with the world. http://www.canvastic.net Another simple online drawing tool. http://bomomo.com – Digital drawing with a difference. Not particularly aimed at kids, you can have lots of fun creating semi-random compositions with a variety of digital tools. You can also save the finished result onto your computer. For more ideas using digital art techniques, check out the following posts:

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There are many wonderful (and some not so wonder) drawing/painting apps available for the iPad. Some are easy to use while others are more complicated. Knowing which to painting app may be right for you can take some research. Below is a look at my top three painting apps for the iPad. Two of these I currently teach to my students at Apex High School. I'm listing these in order from simplest to use to most complex. #3. Art Set I love this silly little app! It's like opening the draw at home where you keep all the art supplies and finding to your surprise that someone has actually organized it. On the complexity scale it is relatively easy while still having some really great features. You start out by choosing a type of paper. These come in several different textures. You can also easily change the color. The default is white but here I have changed it to bue. Speaking of color, that's the next thing you do. Click the little palette icon on the bottom left hand corner and select from a wide range of colors. Lastly, choose your medium.. crayon, marker, pen, paint, colored pencil. They all respond similarly to what you would expect. Art Set is about as simple as that. However, I think that the simplicity is what gives Art Set its charm. Most anyone from small children to adults will be able to instantly create art. For the low, low price of 99 cents, it's worth the download. #2. Layers: If you're looking for something a little more advanced, but still easy to us, try Layers. What I like about layers is how simple it is. It has a brush, an eraser and a smudgy finger. That and of course, layers. The version I'm using only allows for four layers but that is a good number when you are just starting out. Layers has a better set of brush styles than Art Set but not so many that you can't decide what to use. The brushes are adjustable, again just enough to get started without complicating life. The best feature by far is Layers smudge tool. It just seems to work better than smudge tools on other apps. You can adjust the brush size and pressure as well. #1. Sketchbook Pro Sketchbook Pro is one of two apps I've already purchased for my art classes at Apex High School. One of the nice features that many drawing apps come with is layers (layers as a tool not to be confused with Layers the App). Layers, which are transparent, allow the artists to draw or paint on top of of drawings. For example, you can put a line sketch on a bottom layer and then paint in color on a top layer. The beauty of layers is, they can be turned on or off while the artist is working. Layers can also moved above or below a layer. Sketchbook Pro also also four different layer modes including multiply, add and screen. you can even adjust the opacity of the layers. you can see how much more rich and complex this app is already. Another really nice feature of Sketchbook Pro is all the different brushes it comes with. In the image above you can see the 8 little grey icons. These represent some of the different brushes available. I can swipe that menu and reveal more brushes. Plus I'm pretty sure I can add more brushes (though I haven't tried that yet). Sketchbook Pro also allows me to adjust the opacity of the tool I'm using. This way I can spray colors on top of colors. Sketchbook Pro even comes with a bunch of goofy stamps... clouds, little people, bugs and butterflies.. a little corny and canned but they are fun to play with. Plus, I'm pretty sure, like custom brushes, that I can create my own stamps. There are a lot of other exciting options that I haven't mentioned.. like the transform tool that lets you rotate and resize your image. Or the symmetry tool that mirrors on the right everything you draw on the left. Want to draw a butterfly with perfectly symmetrical wings? This tool is the trick. Sketchbook pro also provides a full range of image sending options... email it, post to Twitter or Facebook, etc... If your just looking for something fun and easy to use, I'd recommend you Art Set. If you are looking for something a little more grown up but still easy to use, give Layers a whirl. If you're looking for a big-boy (or girl) drawing app, Sketchbook Pro is complex enough to do some serious damage.

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ONLINE GAMES: Make Fun Digital Art: NGAkids Art Zone, National Gallery of Art Paint Like Jackson Pollock, Jacksonpollock.org weavesilk.com sumopaint.com Mondrimat - make art in the style of Mondrian Color With Leo; Art Games For Kids bomomo.com Make a Monster, Artopia/WNET Thirteen AutoDraw Tessellations, shodor.org WordArt.com tagxedo.com - word cloud with styles Cool Text Graphics Generator Snowflake Maker Switch Zoo - switch animal parts around to make new ones Kids Games at the Queensland Art Gallery Build Your Wild Self, game from the New York Zoos and Aquarium Learning About Art History: National Gallery of Art Kids Art Zone The Tate Gallery, UK, Games For Kids Destination Modern Art; moma.org Meet Me At Midnight; Smithsonian American Art Museum Metkids; metmuseum.org, The Metropolitan Museum of Art NGAkids Art Zone; Art Games at the National Gallery of Art DMA Connect - Games and Interactives, Dallas Museum of Art Et.Cetera: A Collection of Games From Artsology.com Elements of Art Memory Game, teachkidsart.net SCULPTIONARY - (game idea from Annie Thomas-Eyster - use with modeling clay) "The 'Game Show Host' has a jar filled with the selected topic written on folded paper that the teacher wants to reinforce for that lesson. The game show host pulls a word and shares it secretly with the sculptors by cupping it in their hand. The students who are guessing may turn around in their seats so they do not see the word. The 'Time and Score Keeper' tells them when to begin sculpting and guessing and when to stop. Students have up to 2 minutes to communicate their word using modeling clay. They are not allowed to use words or letters. Their team partner may begin guessing the word after students have sculpted for 1 minute. They have 1 minute to guess the topic. The first student to guess what the term, concept, tool, technique, or artist wins the round. The score keeper makes a mark on the score card for that team and round. Then students rotate." Exquisite Corpse (Accidental Art) or collaborative/group doodling (ideas from Jen Polillo and Rachel Hessing Wintemburg) For the "Exquisite Corpse" game: fold a piece of paper so you wind up with around 8 sections. One student starts a drawing on one of the sections and folds it back so it is partly concealed. The next student starts a drawing connected to the first, and so on. They can't look at the whole picture until the last student finishes his or her section. Surrealist Games, Cindy Ingram, Art Class Curator SMARTEST ARTIST, by Cassie Stephens Cassie Stephens' Vocabulary Game, Part I Cassie Stephens' Vocabulary Game Part II - elementary STUMP THE TEACHER review game (secondary) - the students ask the teacher questions from the study guide and get a small prize if the teacher doesn't know the answer "TOSS" REVIEW GAME: "I played a game the day before Christmas break that my middle schoolers loved. I divided them up into two lines. I had a trivia question they had to answer. If they got it correct they got to shoot a huge paper ball I made into a trash can. They got 2 pts. for the right answer and 1 point if they rung the trash can. This appealed to boys and girls." Penny Adamson SILENT BALL EMOTION GAME (Shelly Bailey - elementary) This game is played if the kids clean up in a mannerly way (and quickly). 1. The kids line up to leave and pass a bedazzled paint brush. 2. The teacher assigns an expression. 3. The kid with the best face (mad, happy, sad, monster, and so forth) gets to hold the brush. 4. Then, the person with the brush gets to pick the winning face. ROLL AN ALIEN (design by Hannah Smith) A variety of "Roll A" games are available online; here is a small selection of free games by Stacey Peters at expressivemonkey.com PICASSO ROLL (Lindsay Mouyal - elementary) PIN THE EAR ON VAN GOGH (Lindsay Mouyal - elementary) PICTIONARY (Anna Nichols - middle school) This is a guessing game played on the board at the end of class - I use this as a reward for cleaning up quickly and efficiently. Sometimes, I will provide a theme (sports, food, entertainment, etc.) if a student is stuck for ideas. 1. A student stands at the board and draws one line or shape of something. 2. Other kids raise their hands to guess what it is. They have to wait quietly for the student at the board to "call on them." In my middle school classroom, they are disqualified from the game if they get out of their seat or make a lot of noise to get attention, such as saying, "Oooooh! Pick me! ME!" 3. After every guess, the student draws a little more of the picture. 4. The kid who guesses correctly gets to draw on the board. These ideas are from Tarin Majure's AAEA 2014 Fall Conference workshop, "Visual Communication." Tarin is an elementary art educator and art therapist, MA, ATR. "GUESS THE SCRIBBLE" Tarin Majure 1. Draw a scribble on the board. 2. A student comes up and turns it into an object. 3. The first student to correctly guess what it is gets to go next. "SCRIBBLE CHASE" Tarin Majure Directions: 1. Please scribble freely all over one of your sheets of paper (with any of your art materials). 2. Now find five objects within the lines of the scribbles - list the items on the sides of your paper. 3. Now write a story using all 5 items. The story should be at least a paragraph - 4 to 5 sentences. 4. If time allows, draw a picture or cartoon strip to go along with your story (be sure to include all 5 items). "VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS" Tarin Majure Directions: 1. Pair up and get your partner to do something that they can easily do within the room: 2. One person draws a simple diagram of what s/he wants the other person to do. 3. Words, letters, or numbers may NOT be used. 4. Directional arrows and shapes of signs MAY be used. "WHERE, WHAT, AND WHO?" Tarin Majure 1. The teacher provides a theme. 2. The students draw out their answers, providing enough information in order for someone else to guess what the drawing represents. 3. The teacher shows the pictures one at a time. 4. The class guesses what its about (in relation to the theme) and who drew it. "I AM?" (an art history appreciation game) Tarin Majure 1. Students "become" the art work and write from its point of view. 2. Example: Mona Lisa - "I am bored, bored, bored and if this crazy man would stop painting me, I could finally draw my eyebrows back on!" "WHAT HE/SHE/IT SAID" (an art appreciation game) Tarin Majure 1. Students write about another student's or a famous artist's piece of work. 2. They can write about what it means, what was going on in the artist's mind during the artistic process, or even how the art work itself would answer a question - often a silly one. "ACTIVITIES FOR WIGGLY, GIGGLY STUDENTS" Tarin Majure 1. "Crayon-a-thon" - challenge high energy students to scribble away a whole crayon OR challenge the student to color in a large circle until no white is showing. 2. "Put it in a Jar"- students are asked to draw a jar without a lid. They next write or draw everything they are thinking of inside the jar in 2 minutes. Now, have them draw the lid on and tell them that when class is over they can get their thoughts back out. 3. "Simon Says" or "Teacher Says" - is a quick but fun way to let your students know they need to get refocused on the activity at hand. This can be accomplished by drawing on the board or the traditional method. "ACTIVITIES FOR INTENSE STUDENTS" Tarin Majure Provide Calming Activities: 1. Sorting: beads, sequins, markers crayons, etc. 2. Pointillism: plain paper over a simple color sheet and let them dot their hearts out. (be sure to use old markers) 3. Dot Pictures: save the dots from your hole punches and have students glue them into a picture or pattern (or whatever gets them working). They also love punching their own dots. (It is best to have a container ready with necessary items to complete one or more of the projects.) Click on the following links for awesome game ideas: 1. The Best Games to Play in Line, by Sarah Dougherty, theartofed.com 2. 3 Super Fun Art History Games, by Ian Sands, theartofed.com 3. A New Twist on Memory Makes the Perfect Art Room Center, by Jennifer Borel, theartofed.com 4. 6 Activities To Make Your Art Room More Fun, by Alecia Eggers, theartofed.com 5. Best Behavior Bingo - Free Download, by Sarah Dougherty, theartofed.com 6. 3 Must Have Drawing Activities For Your Free Choice Center, by Alecia Eggers, theartofed.com 7. Whatchamadrawit - A Creative Drawing Game For the Classroom, by Alecia Eggers, theartofed.com 8. A Game to Incorporate Play in the Art Room, by Heather Crockett, theartofed.com 9. Surrealist Games, The Art Curator For Kids, by Cindy Ingram 10. 3 Ways To Motivate Your Students On Tough Days (with the art game, TAG), Melissa Purtee, theartofed.com 11. How to Introduce Symbolism in the Form of a Game, by Matt Christenson, theartofed.com 12. The Marshmallow Challenge, Tom Wujec (great for team-building!) article by Mrs. Anna Nichols

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