Springman Visual Arts

“Simpsonize Yourself”

Here’s a fun site to create yourself as a character from the Simpsons! For fun I played around in Photoshop to add in a few Springman and art extras, Hope Officer Marsh doesn’t see my attempt at graffiti. If you would like to do the same, bring in your saved image in on a zip drive and customize yours in the art room before school!

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“Paper Critters”

Here’s a fun site you might like to check out, “Paper Critters” allows you to make your own “Block head” figures and save them to a data base that you can look up anywhere on the web!

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“Wordle” Word Clouds

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On one of the “Teacher Sites” I frequent, I saw this cool site that you might enjoy, it creates “word clouds” based on the text you enter! I made the one you see here using the text from this site, try it yourself by clicking on my “Wordle”.

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The National Gallery of Art’s “ART ZONE”

Here’s a link to the National Gallery of Arts “ART ZONE” which has a bunch of different interactive art games you can play around with. My favorite to work with was “Photo Op” but there are other cool interactive programs such as “Collage Machine” and “Flow” as well! You do need to have adobe Shockwave installed on your computer for it to work, and a fast connection to the Internet is recommended.

Neat Painting Site

I was surfing around the web this afternoon and I came across something I thought you guys would be interested in. Check out Art.Com’s “ArtPad”! ArtPad is a free web based program that allows you to change brush sizes, spill paint, use text as well as other features. I thought it was a lot of fun! Check it out by clicking on the image to the right. Their is also a “tips” page you can go to by clicking here.

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Be an Art Detective!

Here’s a link to an interactive detective story that uses the styles of art to help solve the crime! Give it a try by clicking on the image here and let me know what you think. Post your comments in the forum section of your art on line account!

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Cool Art Challenge!

Ms. Shaw of the Legacy team sent me this way cool site to share with you! Free Rice has vocabulary and subject matter quizzes to challenge your knowledge, the art one is really tough, use your class notes and see how you do. Some of the artist have not been covered in class yet, but many of them you saw this last week in the PowerPoint! The other cool thing is for each correct answer you get right the site donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations world food Program to help end hunger in the world. So test your skills and give a little something to those in need. Click on the image here to check it out, and don’t forget to say “Thanks” to Ms. Shaw if you see her in the hallway!

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Mr. PicassoHead!