Sub-Topics
Artists
Discussions
- Artists (World Artist Directory) 1-01
Lesson Plans
- Drawing (Chalkboard)
Over a dozen lessons on advanced perspective and shading.
- Drawing a Boat - Lesson (SimplyPainting.com)
Provides a step by step lesson in drawing a boat. 3-01
- Watercolor Painting Lessons (SimplyPainting.com)
Provides three lessons in watercolor painting. Also spelled water colour, water color, or watercolour. 3-01
Lists
- Art History (BestHistorySites.net)
Provides sources of information and ratings for each. 6-02
- Art History - Ancient (Witcombe)
- Arts Search (World Wide Arts Resources)
Searches for information in the arts, including architecture, paintings, dance, theatre, opera and more.
Materials
- -Images (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
 Rated one of the best places on the Internet to find images of great art, currently with over 60,000 images available. You can search for particular works. 1-01
- Art History - Painting (Williams)
Includes paintings from each European art period. Also includes art from the USA. 8-99
- Artist Information and Samples (AskArt.com)
Provides samples of work for thousands of North American artists. Also provides date of birth, date of death, and similar information. Other parts of the database, such as biographies, did not operate on 3-22-01. 3-01
- Color Basics (Sanford)
Demonstrates the basics of colors, such as tints, shades, pigments, and types of colors. Editor's Note - When mixing light, the primary colors are red, blue, and green. When mixing paint, which this article discusses, the primary colors are actually yellow, magenta, and cyan. However, true magenta and cyan have not historically been available. "In the absence of magenta and cyan, red and blue can sort of be used as primary colors...." See Parker for a more technical explanation of primary colors.9-01
- Color Basics - Primary Colors and Intermediate Colors in Pigments (Sanford)
Demonstrates the basics of colors, such as tints, shades, pigments, and types of colors. Editor's Note - When mixing light, the primary colors are red, blue, and green. When mixing paint, which this article discusses, the primary colors are actually yellow, magenta, and cyan. However, true magenta and cyan have not historically been available. "In the absence of magenta and cyan, red and blue can sort of be used as primary colors...." See Parker for a more technical explanation of primary colors.9-01
- Color Elements and Principles, Concepts, Media, Styles, and Artists (Sanford)
Provides an introduction to color in painting. 9-01
- Color Theory (Parker)
Discusses various uses of color in painting. 9-01
- Paintings by Style or Time Period (WebMuseum)
- Paleolithic Painted Cave at Vallon-Pont d'Arc
- Sistine Chapel (Christus Rex)
Provides the work in organized sections by themes, as if the Sistine Chapel were a series of individual paintings.
Papers
- Ancient Egyptian Art (Artchive.com)
Provides an introduction and examples of art. 3-01
- Art Conservation and Restoration (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
Provides information to assist with conservation and restoration. 3-01
- Art Galleries (Bowen) 3-01
- Art History (ANU)
- Art History (Krannert Museum) 11-00
- Art History Glossary (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
Provides definitions of key terms used in art, especially art history. 3-01
- Art Museums (Bowen)
- Art and Architecture-Mainly Mediterranean
- Baroque Era (Technology Training Co-operative - McLellan)
Provides highlights of the Baroque era, including music, art, architecture, costumes, and more. 10-99
- Chinese Calligraphy (China, The Beautiful - Pei)
Provides information for appreciation of the art form. 3-00
- Color Basics - Primary Colors (Parker)
Provides information on mixing colors. When mixing light, the primary colors are red, blue, and green. When mixing paint, which this article discusses, the primary colors are yellow, magenta, and cyan. However, true magenta and cyan have not historically been available. "In the absence of magenta and cyan, red and blue can sort of be used as primary colors...." 9-01
- Competitions and Exhibitions in Art (The Art Deadlines List - Gardner)
Provides a description of competitions, awards, and exhibitions for various forms of art. 1-00
- History of Art (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
 Provides highlights of art history from 30,000 BC to the present. Includes many styles of art, such as Hiberno-Saxon, Byzantine, Islamic, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Bauhaus, Harlem Renaissance, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Performance Art, and Contemporary Art. 3-01
- Michelangelo Drawing Found (CBS News)
"A chalk and wash drawing found in a box in a New York City design museum is a work by Michelangelo worth more than $10 million, museum officials said Tuesday" 6-02
- Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (Feld)
- Museum - National Gallery of Art
Searchable by subject, artist or keyword.
- Van Gogh Biography and Works (About-van-Gogh-Art.com)
Provides a biography, with pictures of Vincent van Gogh and members of his family. Also provides examples of his works, including oil paintings, sketches, drawings, and watercolors. 11-01
- Vermeer Biography and Works (About-Vermeer-Art.com)
Provides a biography. Also provides examples of his works, including oil paintings and iconography. 11-01
- Weisman Art Museum
Periodicals
- Stone Soup Magazine of Children's Works
Projects
- Carlos' Coloring Book 2-00
- Drawings of Shoes by Kids (Walnut Heights Elementary)
Provides drawings of shoes with small people (civilizations) by third grade students of Clements, Ghysels, and O'Brien.
- Kindergarten Drawing Projects (Walnut Heights Elementary)
Provides drawing projects of children in kindergarten classes of Castelan, Richardson, and Darrow.
- Refrigerator Door
Provides artwork of your child on a virtual refrigerator door. Submit the art electronically or in hard copy form. They say that your original will be returned if you send hard copy.
Purchase Resources
- Bookstore (Awesome Library)
Provides books from four sources.
- Prints and Posters - Sources (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of art prints and posters. 7-00
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