ART LINKS AND OTHER INSPIRING REFERENCES:
Color Theory Free Coloring Books from World-Class Libraries & Museums: The New York Public Library, Bodleian, Smithsonian & More
ART HISTORY / ART Search Engines:
Good Bye Art Academy - Art movements / theories / videos / How to...
Art Careers
Art Fido - Unique art. Direct from the Artist.
Art Story - Your guide to Modern Art
Artist Toolkit - Visual Elements and Principles of Design
Art movement, artists and theories at your fingertips
National Gallery of Art Lessons and Resources
Timeline of art/styles/principles
Learn Art and Art History
From Cave paintings to the Internet
Art Safari - Animals and Art
Relief Print History and Classifications
Student Art Guide - Helping Art Students Excel
Chinese Printmaking and Symbols
Wiki Paintings
ARTICLES/LITERACY:
DOODLING AND DRAWING :
Higher Purpose of Doodling - CBS News
Power of the Doodle - Wall Street Journal
Doodling Helps You Pay Attention: Time Magazine
Science and Doodling - Excerpt from Science Magazine
Just doodle It - WNPR with local radio host John Dankosky
ARTS EDUCATION:
STEM vs. STEAM: Do the Arts Belong?
Rethinking ARTS & STEM
Oh, the humanities! why stem shouldn't take precedence over the arts
CAN WE BE CLEAR ON SOMETHING? IT’S STEM, NOT STEAM.
Arts Integration Across All Subjects
Why Drawing Needs To Be Curriculum Essential
How the Arts can help with struggling Learners
Happier Students, Higher Scores: The Role of Arts Integration
ART HISTORY:
The Unknown Notebooks of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Hieronymus Bosch - Dutch museum achieves the impossible with new Hieronymus Bosch show
Quiet Drawings from a Life Lost in Mental Institutions
How France Hid the Louvre’s Masterpieces During WWII
The Little Known Art of Richard Feynman
Imagine that! Einstein on Creative Reading
NASA Wants You to Send Your Art to an Asteroid
Art and Physics: Wonder and Wisdom
Three questions not to ask about art – and four to ask instead - by Kit Messham-Muir
Jeanette Winterson: How art creates a sanctified space for human spirit
Grant Eckert: Art and How it Benefits the Brain
Ten Lessons the Arts Teach
How to Create an Excellent Composition
How to create an Abstract Painting
INTERACTIVE:
National Gallery of Art
Make a Collage
Graffiti Maker
Art Pad
Make a Picasso Head
Paint like Jackson Pollock
Keith Haring Coloring Book
Sprirograph Art
HOW TO DRAW / THEORIES:
Student Art guide - LINE DRAWINGS
Student Art Guide - REALISTIC / OBSERVATIONAL Drawing TIPS
Dynamic Ariel Perspective - CityScape - REPEAT LINK
Drawing in One Point perspective
Anamorphic drawing art
How to Draw
The Grid Method
Sketching a Face - Basic Proportions
Facial proportions and drawing lessons
How to draw people using shapes
How to draw a baby/teenager/adult face
Proportions of the Face
How to Draw a Radial Mandala
Mind Mapping
More Mind Mapping
Tessellations
40 great examples of Doodle Art
10 examples of Flip books
Human Skulls
PRINTMAKING:
Radial Printmaking: SYMMETRY
Printmaking Activities
Printmaking Kit
SCULPTURAL / GEOMETRIC PAPER AND DUCT TAPE ACTIVITIES:
Paper Geometric Poly Mask
3-D Paper Snowflake
Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures
Paper Airplanes
Lucky Stars
TED TALK - Robert Lang - Math and the Magic of Origami
Origami Rose
Origami Transformer Ball
Origami Omega Star
Origami Polyhedra
Duct Tape Flower
Duct Tape Wallet
CYMATICS and SOUND:
Cymatics/Great Pyramid
Sound made visible
Cymatics/Cymatics Sound Machine/ Frequencies
Cymatics.org
Cymatic Violin
Browse lots of Cymatic Links!
Create your own Cymatic Machine
Water Molecules/ Dr. Emoto/Positive vs. Negative Energy
Snowflake Gallery
MANDALAS:
History of the Mandala
Asia-Mandala History
Native American Mandalas/Dream Catchers/Symbols/History
Mandala Symbolism
NATURE / ANIMALS/ BIOLOGY:
Art, Nature and Illustrating
500 Years of Nature Illustrations
Certification to Nature Illustration
Natural Science Illustration Student Perspective
Paper Bird Anatomy All about Bird Feathers Cushing Museum at Yale, New Haven, CT (Brains and skulls)
Yale Peabody Museum Collections, New Haven, CT (Natural History)
Museum of Natural History, Harvard, Boston Massachusetts (Mrs. G.s favorite museum)
Images from the Museum of Natural History
Nature and animals in Camouflage
All about Bird Biology
The Feather Atlas
Powers of Ten (Film 1977)
MEDITATION/PEACEFUL DRAWING MUSIC:
Native American Music/Flute
Morpheus- Native American Shamanic Mix
Sacred Spirit Drums
Rain and Native American
Mediation music 1.
Mediation / Opening 3rd Eye 2
Mrs. G's FAVORITE classical Song, Claire De Lune by Debussey
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Crystal Bowl Short Meditations
Meditation for the seven chakras
Binaural Wave Frequency
Golden Frequency
Singing Cricket
Eric Satee
Silver Song - Johnny Flynn
PI/ GOLDEN RATIO/ GOLDEN MEAN (and other disciplines):
Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant
Golden Ratio - world mysteries
Golden Ratio/simple explanation/perspective
Golden Ratio from an Artist’s View
Golden Ratio and the Face/Proportion
Golden Ration Activities
Golden Mean - engineer of knowledge
Golden Mean in relationship to art & science
EARTH as Art
Scale and proportion
Fractals, Patterns and MORE!
Felix Baumgartner jumps from space
ENGENEERING LINKS:
Where Science Meets Art - NPR Pod Casts
Davinci Inventions: http://www.leonardo-da-vinci-biography.com/leonardo-da-vinci-inventions.html
Imagine Engineers and disciplines: http://www.girlscouts.org/imagineengineering/engineering_disciplines/
Women Engineers and Inventors: http://www.women-inventors.com/
3-D Printed Skateboard!: http://enpundit.com/3d-printed-skateboard/ All about Bird Feathers
The Drinkable Water Book
3-D Printed Superhero hands. Kids doing for others.
SYMBOLISM:
Ancient Symbols and history: http://www.ancient-symbols.com/mayan_symbols.html
Ancient Alphabets: http://karenswhimsy.com/ancient-alphabet.shtm
Animal Totems: http://www.starstuffs.com/animal_totems/finding.html
More Animals and other symbols: http://www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-totems.html
Birth Totem: http://www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-totems.html
Dreams and Meanings: http://library.thinkquest.org/11130/data/interpret/symbolism.html
Chinese Zodiac: http://moonlightenedshelves.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/chinese-zodiac-calendar.png
More Chinese Zodiac: http://moonlightenedshelves.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-12-animals-of-the-chinese-zodiac-2012-year-of-the-dragon/
Western Zodiac/birth dates: http://www.squidoo.com/astrology_signs
More western Zodiac: http://zodiacskies.com/Western.html
Egyptian Hieroglyphs: http://www.markville.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/projects/classof2007/16chong/wilson/wilsonegyptweb_files/hieroglyphicsposter.jpg
Egyptian Gods: http://www.markville.ss.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/projects/classof2007/16chong/wilson/wilsonegyptweb_files/hieroglyphicsposter.jpg
Greek Mythology Family Tree: http://reviews.rebeccareid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/greek-gods-family-tree.jpg
Greek Mythology Facts and Imagery: http://www.theoi.com/
Mayan Hieroglyphs: http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/alphabets/images/mayan-alphabet.jpg
Mayan History: http://mayas.mrdonn.org/hieroglyphics.html
Native American Glyphs: http://wolfsmoon.tripod.com/NativeSymbols.html
Native American Creek Alphabet: http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/indian-symbols/indian-symbols-6.jpg