Art Links

Techniques & Media

Online Art Tools

• Youidraw--Illustrator-like vector editor

• Pixlr--Photoshop-like editor

• Bomomo.com

• Myoats.com

• William Hoza-Text particles

• Sketch swap

• Artpad--Online paint tool To save, take a screen shot or print, then choose the "save as PDF" button

• Snowdays Snowflake generator

• Flash Face

• Paul Schmidinger--interactive items

• Mr. Picasso Head

• Say in Llama Font!

• 8 Online Image Editors

• 9 Photo Editors

• Pulp-o-mizer

• Robohash.org

Celtic Knots

• Square knot with shading

• Celtic Knot 2--A nice, slow, Youtube tutorial

• Celtic Knot 1--Another Youtube tutorial, same artist.

• Celtic Knot (Fast)--This knot has some splits in it make it more interesting.

• Keltischer Knoten--Grainy video, interesting design.

• Triangular Celtic Knot 

• Variety of Knots--Good tutorial shows many different types of knots. Skip around to one you like. 

• How to make Celtic knots more interesting--Time lapse clip. Better for seeing what you can do rather than how to do things. 

• Celtic Knot Generator--Interactive. Try this to see if your design will work. 

• Celtic Knot Tutorial--Extensive, covers many aspects of drawing knots. 

Clay & Pottery

Clay--general links

• Ceramic Arts Network --Daily Info

• The Crucible Guide to Handbuilding

Clay Projects

• Abstract clay bird

Drawing--General Links

• Drawspace.com--drawing lessons

• Facial Expressions

• 30 Day Drawing Challenge

• How to think of what to draw

• Notes on Facial Expressions

Origami

•  Mr. W's Origami Pages

3-D Paper

Polyhedra.net-- 3-D model patterns

Paper Torus

Pop Up Heart Card

CutoutFoldup

Flexaedron Transformer

Perspective Drawing

Basic Box in 2 point perspective

Cityscape Oregon Online School

Basic Explanation of Perspective 

Princeton Online Links page

Zoomquilt One Point Perspective

A Nice Cityscape Example

More Cityscapes and advice

Photography

Cambridge in Color-Tutorials

Print Making

Fun with Foam

Wire Sculpture

Teaching with Wire

Art Education

Art History

• Artchive.com--Artist biographies

• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

• 1st Art Gallery Timeline

• Google Art Project

• Smart History

• Met publications

• Essential Humanities--History and art

• Tacoma Museum of Art Database

Creativity & Inspiration

• Creativity Portal

• How to think of what to draw

Art Education Sites

• OSPI Art Assessments

• Washington Art Education Association

• Smithsonian Art Distance Ed

• Incredible @rt Dept.--Art teacher web site

• Becker middle school art

Art Museums & Organizations

• Regional Arts & Culture Council--Portland area 

• Portland First Thursday PADA

• Portland First Friday

• Vancouver First Friday

• Portland Last Thursday Alberta St. 

• Portland Art Museum

• Tacoma Museum of Glass

• Tacoma Art Museum

• Seattle Art Museum

• Seattle Asian Art Museum

• Oneworld Classroom art exchange

• National Art standards

• Tacoma Museum of Art Database

• Schack Art Center, Everett, WA

Art & Artists

Artists

• Phil Hansen--Can't draw straight

• Mike Quinn--Slab Rhino

• Stone Balancing

• Rashad Alakbarov--Light painter

• Scott Campbell--Dimensional $

• Matei Apostolescu Graphic artist

• Tree of Life

• Ben Heine-Drawings in Photos

• Irina Vinnik Line drawings

• James Charles--Altered money

• Matt Cusick--Map art

• Paul Kuczynski--Graphic artist

• Etude 6-Drawings

• Kevin Ragnott--Ink drawings

• Mateo Negrin--Animation

• Matt W. Moore--Graphic Artist

• Norval Morrisseau--Aboriginal Canadian

• Wire guy

• Judith Klausner--Oreos & Oddities

• Kinetic Sculptures

• Zoetrope sculptures

• Scott Weaver--Toothpicks

• Joe Fenton--Drawing

• People Too--paper sculpture

• Peter Root--Soap carvings

• Jeni Ward--Clay artist

• Boris Artzybasheff--Illustrator

• Scott Blake--Hole Punch flip books

Artwork

• Japan Earthquake sculpture

• Henj

• South American Street Art

• 3-d Paper art

• Percussive Art Layered artworks

• Candle Animation

• Pencil Carvings

• Paper art

Animation & Short Videos

• Mobile World by Steve Cutts

Architecture

• The Pierre

• Glass walkway

• Wonder Wall

• Looking at Buildings--Arch. Catalog 

• Mancini

• Modern Hobbit Hole

• Emmanuelle Moureaux

• Treehouse Point

• Wanderlust Hotel Singapore

• Colombian Church

• Amanzi Thailand

• Norwegian Architecture

• Sky Garden House

• 5 Cool Staircases