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By Shawni Tanner, Erica Shumaker, Alvaro Brito
Google Arts and Culture is a great reference tool when looking for information, articles, websites, apps, downloadable art activities, video tutorials, and anything else you might want to know about arts and culture. There are also tours of museums and famous sites, images of iconic street locations and architecture, digital images of over 100,000 pieces of art, and artist spotlights that change frequently.
Art Transfer is an app for your phone that allows you to change photos into works of art using your choice of artist style and interpretation.
Art Selfie compares a selfie from your phone to artwork showing you pieces that are similar to your image.
Art Camera lets you explore famous images in greater detail by zooming in on different areas of the artwork, including looking at the brushstrokes as if you were in front of the piece.
Art Steps is a program that allows an individual to create, edit and share artwork through an interactive space that looks like a museum or exhibition. It assists in creating a virtual world that is interactive and allows individuals to tell a story about pieces of art.
Clip Studio Paint is an advanced tool for artists to create illustrations, character and concept art, comics and magma in addition to animations. There is a variety of brushes for artists to select from that allows them to create images with great detail.
○ Photoshop where students can edit and create images and graphics.
○ Illustrator that allows students to create vector art.
○ Fresco which allows students to paint and draw with vector brushes and different types of digital mediums.
○ Capture allows students to take photos from a mobile device and converts them into vectors to use in other applications.
Procreate was developed for the iPad and allows students to create sketches, paintings, illustrations and animations. This app includes over 200 “brushes” that allow the user to create different textures and images such as pencils, charcoals, and different inks.
Artsonia is an online digital art portfolio that can be used by teachers or parents to organize and share artwork. They also provide learning opportunities for art educators and lesson plans.
There are many hardware educational tools that can be utilized for teaching art. This includes laptop and desktop computers, laser, inkjet and 3 printers, and scanners. However, there are a variety of other tools that can be utilized including:
Digital tablets that allow the artist and/or teacher to use a digital pen to draw images on the screen including:
iPad/Apple Pencil
MobileStudio
Document projectors include:
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