Cornell University
Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
Yale University
Yale: The Illusion of the Renaissance
A curriculum unit on perspective, detailing the differences between medieval and Renaissance art. This is designed as a studio art course for 8th grade through high school, and contains some good information and activities. Illustrations...
Technology Student
Technology Student: Graphic Design
This site covers everything from the basic tools to advanced techniques used in graphics design.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Georges Seurat: The Drawings
A full-featured exhibition of the drawings of nineteenth-century French master Georges Seurat. Includes upclose looks at the artist's sketchbooks-rare primary source documents-and details about his subject choices and working methods....
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: How Van Gogh Made His Mark
An exhibition that focuses primarily on Van Gogh's drawings. Includes many illustrations and tools to help learners develop a deep level of understanding of "how Van Gogh made his mark." Helpful extras include a glossary, interactive...
Other
University of the Arts, London: Manuscripts at Universal Leonardo
This gallery of 22 excerpts from Leonardo's notebooks is accompanied by historical information and links to additional explorations of his interests in the forces of nature, light and vision, and imagination and invention. The drawings...
Northwestern University
Northwestern University Library: Hogarth and Eighteenth Century Print Culture
Browse this large collection of Hogarth's prints to find examples of all of his favorite subjects, including eighteenth-century views of London.
Northwestern University
Block Museum of Art: Anatomy of Gender (Early Anatomical Drawings)
Learn about the history of anatomical drawing as a means to sientific exploration of the body and in relation to gender issues, in this exhibit information from "Anatomy of Gender; Early Anatomical Drawings" at the Block Museum of art.
Other
Benetton: Benettonplay!
Suite of games and animation tools where players can design, draw, and play a variety of multimedia games. Flipbook is great for creating frame-by-frame animations that tell stories or simply explode with color. Other games, Odd One Out,...
Other
Drawspace: Drawing Lessons
Drawspace allows you access to a large quantity of drawing lessons for classroom use. In order to access each individual lesson, which come complete with user comments, you must register to the site. The lessons are divided between...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Detail Drawings: Communicating With Engineers
Students are introduced to detail drawings and the importance of clearly documenting and communicating their designs. They are introduced to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Y14.5 standard, which controls how engineers...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Drawing Designs in Detail
Students practice creating rudimentary detail drawings. They learn how engineers communicate the technical information about their designs using the basic components of detail drawings. They practice creating their own drawings of a...
Other
I Am an Artist: Bringing the Visual Arts to Life
Learn about materials that can bring art to life! Click on a category to view a 6-minute video, play an interactive game, and see various lessons revolving around the selected topic. Also included is a link to project ideas.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Drawing (Lesson Plans)
Forty creative lesson plans on drawing for students of all ages! Each one gives an example, a list of materials, and step-by-step directions. Many of the activities also provide a list of books, vocabulary, extensions, and more!
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Expressionism
This Artcyclopedia resource offers a brief overview of Expressionism and a chronological timeline that links to each artist.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Mona Mesa: What Is Your Opinion? [Pdf]
For this lesson, 1st graders look at a print of "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo DaVinci and talk about what they see, searching for visual clues to help them form an opinion. They discuss the importance of portrait paintings during the...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Sharing Your Creativity, Part 2: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math and Literacy development. This week (December 21st), we're learning how developing new artistic ideas helps us to express our thoughts and feelings.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Draw a Portrait
In addition to providing suggestions for drawing the perfect portrait, Kids at Art looks at Leonardo da Vinci and his ideas about depicting the human figure.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Drawing on Kenaf
In addition to describing the texture and uses of kenaf, a tree-free paper made from a plant related to cotton and okra, this tutorial provides a lesson in drawing on kenaf and choosing pencils.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Scratch Paper Sketch Pad
Kids at Art emphasizes the importance of recycling and conservation with this simple way to reuse paper for drawing purposes.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Draw, Pardner!
Using newsprint remnants can be an inexpensive and ecologically friendly source of drawing paper, as this website suggests. Provided are "Tips and Tricks" which give some good uses for the large rolls of newsprint you can get at your...
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Crayon Etching
An in-depth description of how to do crayon etchings, this website includes many helpful hints and background information on etching.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Water Babies Jessie Willcox Smith
An exhibition of The Water-Babies illustations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Originally shown in the Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon Library of Congress June through September 1999.