Links/Art

http://www.iamanartist.ie/index.aspx
An Irish art education website. Short video clips demonstrating various art techniques and media, including printing, working with clay, drawing and making models. Also step by step 'how to' guides and downloadable teacher's notes.

http://www.guggenheim.org/artscurriculum/lessons/start.php
Downloadable material from the guggenheim museum

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Information and images of almost every work of art can be accessed through this website

http://www.artforschools.com
An exciting range of art reproductions that covers the History of Art from cave painting to the present day for purchase…..good for ideas

http://www.iol.ie/~ndnsp/irene/resource.htm
Some images of class displays for ideas

http://www.artsonia.com/projects/
Thousands of projects to inspire with images of pupils finished work

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/
View exhibits by artist or period collection

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/bigart/
Children’s gallery with good interactive work

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/collect.asp
A wealth of images and information at the National Portrait Gallery

http://www.craftsforkids.com/projects.htm
Loads of simple lesson plans for hands on craft projects

http://www.jacquiblackman.co.uk/painting_techniques.htm
Gives a good cross section of different painting techniques, methods and skills you may enjoy trying.

http://www.tammyyee.com/origami.html
Some nice simple paper folding with links to other crafts, games and puzzles too

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/links
To the exhibits at all 3 galleries around the UK

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/
An index detailing the lives and works of hundreds of artists

http://en.easyart.com/content/
Find artwork by artist, subject matter or predominant colour

http://www.artselect.com/perl/search?collectionID=11074&openct11074=1&alt=Infuse_Your_Walls_with_Color&t=b&customerID=84727150-1905888436 
Similar to above

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/tess.htm
Design a tessellation online related to Escher

http://www.fotoview.nl/help/examples_eng.htm
Go to download to get an excellent pop art program, the general link shows the different types of art by different artists

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/education/interactive/geometric.html
Create your own sculpture and show it in a gallery or park

http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/index.html
Lots of ideas, lesson plans and projects

http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=4,1 
Some really good activities for colour matching and portraits

www.artyfactory.com/
Free art lessons and masses of resources/information about African Masks, Egyptian art, perspective, logos excellent stuff

http://www.cpsd.us/Art/links.html
Takes you to loads more exciting links

http://artsconnected.org/
A wealth of resources from The Minneapolis Institute including lesson ideas

http://www.cartoonster.com/
Excellent introductory tutorials for animation projects

http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm
Images of the earth from space looking like pieces of art

http://getty.edu/education/
Some good online activities from the Getty Museum

www.moma.org/momalearning/artsafari/index.html
Go on an art safari looking at different pieces of art with relevant questions

www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm
Make collages online by dragging, dropping, rotating and resizing and print

http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/
Use your arrow keys to create an etch a sketch picture just like the game

www.artic.edu/artaccess/
A good source of  links to images

www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
Cave paintings from Lascaux

www.haringkids.com/
Online interactive colouring book

www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/f_exhibits.html
Fantastic optical illusions

www.tate.org.uk/learning/schools
Lots of ideas for using art across other subjects with lesson plans and images from the Tate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/art/ 
Useful links to images and interactive resources especially the sound kit