Art Fun for Everyone

As a service to my students visiting my site from home (and anyone else who happens upon this blog), I've created a list of some entertaining art-related websites.

Imagination Cubed - This incredible site web app by GE allows users to collaborate on paintings. Many of my students enjoy the replay features.

Artpad - Like Imagination Cubed, Artpad is a web app that allows you to paint and replay your painting. However, unlike GE's app, this one tries to simulate real painting.

Paint Like Jackson Pollock! - A very simple yet highly addictive "Boredom Breaker", Jacksonpollock.org simply simulates Pollock's process in creating abstract expressionist painting.
Mr. Picasso Head - What do you get when you cross Picasso with Mr. Potatohead?

Mondrimat - "Boredom Breaker" a la Modrian.

Pixelface - The National Gallery of Art website has several kid friendly web toys including this one where you can paint a famous portrait of George Washington's face in pixels.

Draw Toy - ZeFrank's web toys are a big hit. This one is a simple paint app.

Collage Machine I and Collage Machine II are two more NGA web toys. They allow you to create a collage of several available images.

Online Etch-a-Scetch - The web version of one of the greatest drawing toys invented. Note: Shaking your monitor will NOT erase the Etch-A-Sketch.

Grafitti Creator - This site is a big hit with students. This web app allows you to create grafitti art in varying 2-D and 3-D styles without the investment in spray paint or the risk of arrest.

By they way, it's impossible with most of these sites to save your images so I recommend using a screen capture tool. My students use GIMP's screen acquire utility.