Teaching Art: Links and Resources

• Links from Sept-Nov_2018 (Unsure if this will work, since it's in my Google Doc folder)

• One source for downloading free fonts.

• https://www.wikihow.com/Critique-Artwork is a great starting point for critiquing art. Students who want to "go the extra mile," when they're on vacation can include this kind of in-depth critique on one or two pieces, rather than merely taking a bunch of photos and answering the three I included on the assignment.

• AirTable.com is a Visual Database that combines the best parts of Excel and a database; I signed up for a 14-day trial on Nov. 3, 2018e

• What is the difference between Traditional Art and Digital Art? Does it matter which one is used to create?

• Google Search results: Shading cones, spheres, cylinders and cubes.

• The link in this paragraph goes to an Imgur page showing a variety of cartooning styles using the construction method I have been teaching in Beginning Art. Warning: most of these examples teach using "nude" models.

• Preston Blair inspired a lot of cartoonists with his books on creating characters for animation. This link is to a Google Search of a huge list of constructed cartoons..

• PuppetMaster is an iPad App that allows anyone to make animated stories from drawings and even sculptural elements. Currently free (as of Oct. 30th, 2018)

• Student Art Guide is a great resource for ideas to help High School Art students achieve excellence. I will be tapping into it for our Middle School students as well, to prepare them for high school.

YouTube video on How to use iMovie (24 minutes in length)

• I created GrizzleDesign for the Temporary teaching position I did in the Spring of 2015, before I got hired at CPMA: http://grizzledesign.weebly.com/clipart.html the link goes to the page I made for the clip-art assignment, which, as I recall, was not well-received by the students at Mission Hills High School.

• https://pixlr.com/editor/ is a free raster image editor, similar to Adobe PhotoShop, and can be used online, when you're not at school.

• https://vectr.com/ is a free vector image editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator, and, like pixlr, can be used at home, or wherever you have internet access. I haven't tried them on a SmartPhone or tablet yet, so I cannot vouch for whether or not they are viable on portable devices. Click this link to learn how to use Vectr.

• "How to Write an Effective Rubric for Your Art Students" (The Art of Ed, Added 2/26/2018)

• "A Creative Way to Combine Assessment and Artmaking" (The Art of Ed, Added 2/26/2018)

• Creating a logo in Adobe Illustrator (step-by-step, written, with examples)

• Debi West has written many ARTicles for the Art of Ed; here is the direct link to many of them.

• This is the link to log into my Induction class.

• Great site showing the History of Design.

• Exaggeration in Animation [Google Search Results]

• Coloring books are a source for Grid Drawings, and here's a whole site devoted to them.

• Collierville High School, Tennessee • Art Program •

• Google Search result for Molas of the islands off Panama (sample below)