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Art-Bot; Professor Garfield. Drama Games for Kids and Teens — Drama Notebook. ImprovComedy.Org. Shakespeare Art Museum. ArtsAlive.ca - Interested in learning more about music, theatre, dance, costume and set design and theatrical posters?

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Need information for a school project? Find all you need and more by exploring the sections below! ArtsAlive.ca Music NACmusicbox.ca The NACmusicbox TIMELINE -Interact with over 200 orchestral works, 80 Canadian compositions, and an extensive learning collection based on Canadian themes Theatre ArtsAlive.ca English Theatre Learn about the professions of acting, directing, design and production Watch interviews with theatre professionals Download student matinee study guides for dozens of theatre shows at the NAC and in your area ArtsAlive.ca French Theatre Dance Contact us anytime at artsweb@nac-cna.ca. Performing Arts Resources and Publications Links. Art lessons - teach yourself drawing, painting and sketching. Most Recent. Basic Color Theory. Color theory encompasses a multitude of definitions, concepts and design applications - enough to fill several encyclopedias.

Basic Color Theory

However, there are three basic categories of color theory that are logical and useful : The color wheel, color harmony, and the context of how colors are used. Color theories create a logical structure for color. For example, if we have an assortment of fruits and vegetables, we can organize them by color and place them on a circle that shows the colors in relation to each other. The Color Wheel A color circle, based on red, yellow and blue, is traditional in the field of art. There are also definitions (or categories) of colors based on the color wheel. Primary Colors: Red, yellow and blueIn traditional color theory (used in paint and pigments), primary colors are the 3 pigment colors that cannot be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. Secondary Colors: Green, orange and purpleThese are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.

Color Harmony 1. Free art lessons - teach yourself how to draw, paint and design. Discover How to Draw & Paint Whatever You Want. Build with Chrome. Drawing with shapes - learn to draw, step by step drawing lessons. Art Projects for Kids. Drawspace: Now everyone can draw. ART LESSONS LIBRARY. Learn How to Draw Animals – Step-by-Step.

Drawing For Beginners. Pastels Plus Links to Tutorials - Hodgepodge. Doodle.ly. Artist Daily. Concordia University Chicago - Art Lessons. Welcome to Concordia University Chicago’s link to Artists and Their Art: Sharing Visual Stories, a tool to promote visual literacy through artwork.

Concordia University Chicago - Art Lessons

Recognizing visual cues in a work of art as well as being aware of the times and conditions in which an artist lived enables students to better interpret its imagery, draw conclusions about its effectiveness, and speak critically about the art. History of Art in Ancient Egypt. Welcome to Homeschool Commons!

History of Art in Ancient Egypt

If you're new to the site you might want to subscribe by email at the right or add the RSS feed to your feed reader. Thanks for visiting! The two volumes in the set of A History of Art in Ancient Egypt are chock-full of great information and images to use in your studies! These would be great for an older student to read as part of an art-study, humanities credit, or ancient civilizations. Each of the volumes contains over 150 illustrations! Download from gutenberg.org: Practical Pages. Welcome!

Practical Pages

These pages are free! You may download them for your own personal use, but if you would like to share the files, I humbly ask that you please link back to my blog. Picturing America. Cave painting, contemporary art and everything in between. Ag in Art. MOBA : The Collection. Amazon. Site Index. Olga's Gallery - Online Art Museum. Guido Daniele. Collection. Cultural Institute. Women Painters Of The World. Welcome to Homeschool Commons!

Women Painters Of The World

If you're new to the site you might want to subscribe by email at the right or add the RSS feed to your feed reader. Thanks for visiting! The author of this book asks a good question – why do all the great painters we study have to be men? Answer – they don’t! Book titles with full text online. "The 1688 Paradise Lost and Dr.

Book titles with full text online

Aldrich": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 6 (1972) Boorsch, Suzanne (1972) 20th-Century Art: A Resource for Educators Paul, Stella (1999) 82nd & Fifth The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013) Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis Gerson, Paula Lieber, ed. (1986) A. Pintura: Art Detective. Arts in the Renaissance. Harrington Harmonies. I offer you these free art lessons by Artist that you can use in your homeschool.

Harrington Harmonies

Click the images to go to the lesson you wish to view. Teach students about Georgia O’Keeffe while introducing them to color gradient scales. Markers aren’t just for making posters. Children will learn to add color to make their up close flowers by starting with the lightest color and proceeding to the darkest, adding color layer by layer.

Vocabulary: highlights, shading, color gradient scales, outline, overlapping, contrast, warm colors, cool colors, color families, and neutral colors. Students - Everything Art. Art Lessons and Lesson Plans for K-12 and College. Drawing Ideas. All Education Lessons. Norfork High School Lessons. Homeschool Art. Homeschooling Art The arts refers to performing arts, literary arts, visual arts, and possibly other types of creative expression, but that is just to say that this section of my web site is about visual arts.

Homeschool Art

Like the rest of my website, the parts of this section are linked in the bottom row of the navigation links that are at the top of the pages. I've written a description of the some of the parts further down this page. The art section grows as I have time to work on it. One part that is glaringly unfinished is the grades part that I started in 2009 and have not worked on it since. The Arts and Other Classes It has always been my opinion that the arts should be included with other classes when possible.

Art School. The Art Assignment. Harmony Fine ArtsHarmony Fine Arts. Free Downloads For The Whole Family Harmony Fine Arts offers quite a few free plans for your homeschool use.

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My hope is that these plans will help you get started with art and music appreciation in your home. There is so much joy in sharing these experiences with your children and sometimes we all need a little help knowing where to start. High School Free Downloads. Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood: Fine Arts Notebooking Packet {Free Printables} The smARTteacher Resource: EMPHASIS (Principle Binder Notes) 100-best-free-art-e-books. We have created a most comprehensive, yet careful selected list of the many free instructional and other art related e-books. All books within this listing are either public domain or used with permission. This page was last updated: December 20, 2016 Famous Art Quotes The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner Every child is an artist. _Free Downloads_Free Art Lessons. Free Art Notebooking Pages. A design resource for kids, parents, teachers.