Online Interactive Resources for Art

Online Interactive Resources for Art General Art Resources Sites Great Kids info/project/biography site: http://www.scribbleskidsart.com/ Over 23,000 pictures on line: http://www.artunframed.com/ BBC arts online is an exciting multimedia interactive site with features from art history to contemporary BritArt. Its education section has useful links to other recommended sites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/ Access Art is accessible site with an expanding resource of engaging creative workshops and imaginative Flash interactive activities for Primary or younger KS3 e.g. What is sculpture? Workshops are very well structured and include drawing, photography, installation art, colour and visual literacy. There are teacher notes and pupil worksheets: http://www.accessart.org.uk/ The Art Attack interactive site has projects from the current TV series and an archive of past projects with printable versions and a non-Flash version of the site.: http://www.hitentertainment.com/artattack/ Hundreds of make stuff ideas for all sorts of crafts etc. : http://www.make-stuff.com/ DARE is the Digital Resource for Education for the Institute of International Visual Arts. Its interactive resources for culturally diverse contemporary art feature 36 artists work, based on the themes of Play, Space and Place , and Translation: http://www.dareonline.org/ Art products and resources for creative individuals from beginner to advanced: http://www.sanford- artedventures.com/ Art adventures covering all aspects, cave paintings, left and right brain work, Leonardo’s Workshop, Landscape, Colour, Architecture, Design, Portraits: http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/play.html http://www.eduweb.com/pintura/ Art detective adventure – interactive fun!: The Keith Haring Foundation children’s site is mainly for Primary children: it has an interactive colouring book, and a morphing shape animation that could be used to introduce a project making Flash movies/animations.: http://www.haringkids.com/ Enchanted Learning has biographical information, projects and colouring activities for younger pupils on a great number of artists organised by artist, nationality or historic period: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/ Art projects from Sir Robert Hitchams Primary School's excellent site include lesson ideas for art and ICT projects and guides to 3D, drawing, image manipulation and digital video editing software - for example: Windows MovieMaker 2, Serif ImpactPlus, Revelation Natural Art, Paint Shop Pro 7 and Animation Shop, Serif DrawPlus, and Dazzle Plus. It also has guidance on using interactive whiteboards and graphics tablets.: http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/ict_art/index.htm The Northumberland Grid for Learning has printable, illustrated information sheets on different art elements and processes: drawing, 3D, tone, colour, ICT, shape etc; http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/art/infosheets/default.htm Art encyclopeadia: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ All about colour: http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html A gateway to architecture around the world, this includes a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more.: http://www.greatbuildings.com/ Art games online: http://www.artonline.it/eng/games.asp Specific Artists Websites: The Van Gogh Gallery: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/ Step inside a Van Gogh painting: http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/index.html Fun making Picasso painting you can save and print out: Online Picasso Project: http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/ Interactive Picasso on online: http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/art/artists/picasso/index.html A self-educated farmer, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley attracted world attention with his pioneering work in the area of photomicrography, particularly his extensive work with snow crystals. By adapting a microscope to a bellows camera he became the first person to photograph a single snow crystal in 1885. This site is dedicated to his work and images of snowflakes.: http://www.snowflakebentley.com/ biographies of over 40 architects and artists that worked in Britain between 1700 and 1900: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/art.htm This is the official Andy Warhol site: make a screen-print online and email it to yourself. The interactive screenprinting demo gives a clear step-by-step guide to the process Warhol used.: http://www.warhol.org/ Surrealist artist links: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/surrealism.html Matisse for Kids: http://www.artbma.org/education/matisse_kids_frame.html More Matisse: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/ Claude Monet: http://www.intermonet.com/ Optical illusions: Good illusion sight: http://www.colorcube.com/illusions/optiart.htm More illusions: http://eluzions.com/Illusions/ Animated illusions: http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/illusion.html Optical illusion gallery: http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/ How illusions work: http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/Optical/SizeConstancy_main.htm Unusual illusions: http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~amos/visualillusion.html 1A Self-Portrait   images of children in a range of media, including photographs, family albums, advertisements, magazines portraits by different artists, eg 'John Friedrich the magnanimous at the age of six' by Lucas Cranach the Elder; 'Two little girls' by Isaac Oliver; 'The little dancer' by Edgar Degas; 'Self-portrait in a straw hat' by Vigee-Lebrun; The painter and his pug' by William Hogarth Face It! is an innovative interactive online resource commissioned and developed in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery. It is designed for pupils aged 7 – 12 and explores four very different portraits in the collection - from Elizabeth 1 to Sir Bobby Moore - through colour and symbols. You can download a line drawing of the paintings, which can also be printed out on a raised image printer as a tactile image for visually impaired pupils. Click on the silhouette of the child to create and describe a virtual portrait of your own.: http://www.show.me.uk/hosted/faceit/index.html Biography of Degas and other impressionists and paint your own masterpiece activity : http://www.biography.com/impressionists/artists_degas.html Lucas Cranach the Elder: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cranach/ John Friedrich the magnanimous at the age of six: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgibin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG6539 Children in Medieval and Renaissance Works of Art (including two little girls by Isaac Oliver) : http://www.geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/children.htm The little dancer by Degas: http://www.sculpturegallery.com/sculpture/little_dancer.html The painter and his pug by William Hogarth: http://humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=p&ID=1198 Self portrait in a straw hat Vigee-Lebrun: http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd-10022948/Elizabeth_Vigee_Lebrun_Self_Portrait_in_a_Straw_Hat.htm 1B Investigating Materials  reproduction of work by contemporary makers, eg Michael Brennand-Wood, Janet Bolton, Sharon Porteous, Lois Walpole, Caroline Broadhead, Sally Freshwater Work by Michael Brennan-Wood: http://mnlg.com/art/artists/michael_bw.html http://www.drumcroon.org.uk/Arch1/chasing%20shadows/shadows.html http://mnlg.com/art/photopages/michael_bw/mbw_stars.html http://layersofmeaning.org/archives/000217.html Quilts by Janet Bolton: http://www.art.com/asp/display_artist-asp/_/crid--6048/Janet_Bolton.htm Profile of Janet Bolton: http://www.caa.org.uk/cvs/bolton_janet.htm Profile of Sharon Porteous: http://www.caa.org.uk/cvs/porteous_sharon.htm Profile of Lois Walpole: http://www.loiswalpole.com/ Caroline Broadhead profile: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/guide/residencies/broadhead.htm Sally freshwater profile: http://www.sallyfreshwater.com/pages/main.htm Textile museum: http://textilemuseum.ca/ Contemporary textile art: http://www.1-art-1.com/index.html 1C What is sculpture     works using materials such as stone, bronze and wood, eg Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth mobiles, eg Alexander Calder works using found materials, eg Picasso works using natural materials, eg Andy Goldsworthy The Case of the Mysterious Object: this is an exciting and innovative interactive introduction to looking at Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure, 1938, at Tate Britain in particular and at works of art in general.: http://www.tate.org.uk/detective/mysteriousobject.htm Goodwood Sculpture Park site has an introductory Quicktime movie and can be explored by artist, concept, current work and an archive.: http://www.sculpture.org.uk/index.html The Henry Moore Foundation has a biography and work chronology of the artist, 3D panoramas of his studios; a virtual tour of the Perry Green outdoor sculpture park; and a Schools' Blackboard with documentation of workshops and the chance to submit your pupils' projects.: http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/ Alexander Calder site (sculptor and inventor of the mobile) http://www.calder.org/SETS/home.html Alexander Calder virtual tour in National Gallery: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/calder/realsp/roomenterfoyer.htm Andy Goldsworthy (sculptor) online video: http://www.roland-collection.com/rolandcollection/section/30/605.htm Andy Goldsworthy art images: http://www.artnet.com/artist/7145/Goldsworthy_Andy.htm Barbara Hepworth profile: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hepworth.html 2A Picture this    interesting layouts different ways of linking words and images different approaches to illustration, eg books by Raymond Briggs or Jill Burton Images of children’s books: http://www.imagesofdelight.com/index.asp 2B Mother Nature  reproductions of the work of designers who used nature as a source of ideas, eg wallpaper designs by William Morris, decorative patterns by Henri Matisse The William Morris Gallery site has online exhibitions of his ceramic tiles, stained glass, arts and craft designs, print illustrations, plus photographs, information about his links with Walthamstow and links to other useful sites.: http://www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg/ Matisse: http://www.musee-matisse-nice.org/ 2C Can buildings speak   visits to local buildings containing murals and decoration illustrations and photographs of buildings showing architectural features and decoration, eg gargoyles, tiles, carvings, murals, decorative brickwork, plaster The great buildings collection: http://www.greatbuildings.com/ Architecture: http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Home.html 3A Portraying relationships   double portraits, paintings, prints, photographs, book illustrations and/or other images that show two people, eg parent and child, brother and sister, friends, helpers reproductions of works, eg 'Lord John Stuart and his brother Lord Bernard Stuart' by Anthony van Dyck; 'Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy' by David Hockney; 'The dance' by Paula Rego Famous paintings exhibition: http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/ David Hockney paintings (Mr and Mrs Clark) : http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hockney/clrkprcy.jpg.html 3B Investigating Pattern   examples of printed textiles and papers showing bold shape and pattern designs from different cultures, eg Indian printed textiles, Islamic tiles, Gujarati shisha, Bengali kanthas work, Scandinavian designs, Asafo work from Ghana Asian art: http://www.asianart.com/index.html Aboriginal art: http://aboriginalart.com.au/gallery/ Art of Africa. Oceania and the Americas: http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=5 Craft traditions of India: http://www.indianmirror.com/crafts/cra4.html Scandinavian design work: http://www.scandinaviandesigns.com/ 3C Can we change places    pictures, illustrations, maps and plans of different types of location examples of the work of sculptors who use 'found' materials in their work, eg Picasso, Louise Nevelson, Tony Cragg photographs of sculpture in the environment, eg 'Angel of the North' by Antony Gormley The impressive multimedia website of British sculptor Antony Gormley, creator of the Angel of the North, Field for the British Isles, and Quantum Cloud.: http://www.antonygormley.com/ Gateshead Council's site about Antony Gormley's sculpture Angel of the North, sited on Tyneside, covers its history, facts, construction, engineering and visitor directions : http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/angel/ 1000’s of online photos available for free: http://www.freefoto.com Work by Tony Cragg: http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/schools/tonycragg2443.shtm Tony Craggs Portfolio: http://www.sculpture.org.uk/image/525016521036 Louise Nevelson work: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/nevelson_louise.html 4A Viewpoints    photographs and film sequences showing ways of conveying drama, build up of emotion or tension, atmosphere examples of the work of photographers, eg Hugo Glendinning and Tim Etchells, and artists, eg Marc Chagall examples of surrealist artists who used the theme of dreams and nightmares in their work, eg 'Titania and Bottom' by Fuseli; 'The ghost of a flea' by Blake; 'The reckless sleeper' by Magritte; 'Woman and bird in the moonlight' by Miro Famous paintings archive: http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/ Art archive site: http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm Hugo Glendinning and Tim Etchells work: http://www.liftfest.org/if/events/year/ Marc Chagall work: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/chagall.html Titania and Bottom by Fuseli: http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=4759&tabview=image Ghost of a flea by Blake: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/blakeinteractive/imagin/cast_02.html Reckles sleeper by Magritte: http://www.atara.net/magritte/20s/reckless-sleeper.html Woman and bird in the moonlight by Miro: http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=9577&searchid=8977 Other work by Miro: http://spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Miro_1940s.html 4B Take a seat      examples of chairs used in school and elsewhere examples of chairs from different times and cultures, shown in paintings, carvings, sculptures, photographs, etc showing the different purposes and functions of chairs such as: ceremonial or celebration, eg thrones mass use, eg office, cinema comfort, eg settee, armchair outdoor, eg park bench, garden swing  Are you sitting comfortably (adobe file): http://www.drumcroon.org.uk/Resource/Portfolio/Chair.pdf Take a seat resource: http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/ict_art/takeaseat/index.htm 4C Journeys     aerial photographs, ancient and modern maps, weather maps, diagrams of mazes and other structures seen from above examples of abstract art from a range of cultures that combine lines, shapes, colours and patterns for decorative effect, eg: Aboriginal paintings representing a real or imagined journey work by Paul Klee using signs and symbols to represent landscape or a journey work by contemporary artists such as Richard Long, the Boyle family, Lesley Davey  Paul Klee work: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/klee_paul.html Famous paintings exhibition: http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/ The Boyle family: http://www.boylefamily.co.uk/ Richard Long website: http://www.richardlong.org/ More Richard Long: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/long_richard.html Richard Long sculpture: http://www.sculpture.uk.com/richard_long.htm Lesley Davey work: http://www.somersetartweek.org.uk/artist.cfm?ID=744&CFID=844337&CFTOKEN=46676122 5A Objects and Meanings   a range of still-life images of domestic scenes, scenic and/or leisure activities, eg work by Manet, Renoir, Cassatt, Matisse examples of symbolic compositions, eg 'Annunciation 1435' by van der Weyden; 'The Black Clock' by Cezanne; 'The Toy Shop' by Peter Blake; 'Still life: An allegory of the vanities of human life' by Harmen Steenwyck; 'The uncertainty of the poet' by Giorgio de Chirico Online art exhibihiton: http://www.southern.net/wm/paint/ Art archive site: http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm Annunciation by van der Weyden: http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/vanderweyden/index_a.html http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/vanderweyden/WEY007.html Black Clock by Cezanne: http://www.famousartreproductions.com/blackclock.html Toy shop by Peter Blake: http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1029&searchid=8837&tabview=im age An allegory of the vanities of human life by Harmen Steenwyck: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgibin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG1256&collectionPublisherSect ion=work Giorgio de Chirico online: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/de_chirico_giorgio.html The uncertainty of the poet by Giorgio de Chirico: http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=2204&tabview=image 5B Containers     vessels and containers of: different sorts, eg urns, baskets, cooking pots different sizes and shapes different materials, eg ceramic, wood, metal, withies reproductions of the work of contemporary craftspeople, eg Bodil Manz, Kate Malone, Ed Rossbach, Fran Reed, Dorothy Gill Barnes, Norie Hatakeyama, Birgitta Wendel  Studio pottery: http://www.studiopottery.co.uk/index-f.html Bodil Manz containers: http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/manz.htm Kate Malone: http://www.kmaloneceramics.clara.net/ Ed Rossbach containers: http://www.browngrotta.com/bgarts.com/bgarts.pages/artist%20pages/rossbach.html Fran Reed work: http://www.americanartco.com/artist_full.cfm?aid=205 Dorothy Gill Barnes: http://ldkocher.tripod.com/vesselsite/vessel98/1998artists/barnes.html Norie Hatakeyama: http://www.browngrotta.com/bgarts.com/bgarts.pages/artist%20pages/hatakeya.html 5C Talking Textiles   textiles or photographs of textiles, such as wall hangings or tapestries, that tell a story, eg Bayeux Tapestry, embroidered shrine cloths from northern India illustrated stories, eg on Egyptian tomb paintings, Greek vases, Chinese ceramics, cartoon strips, storybooks Online Bayeux tapestry: http://www.essentialnormanconquest.com/ Art history on the web: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html Make an Egyptian Tomb model: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/trythis/egyptiantomb/ Egyptian clip art: http://www.neferchichi.com/clipart.html Egyptian tomb painting images: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/medweb/afterlife.html Greek vase images: http://vm.arts.unimelb.edu.au/tours/Gvases/vaselist.htm Making Greek vases images: http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/presentation/p41_111649-1.html Greek vase replicas: http://www.koulouria.gr/ Ancient Chinese ceramics: http://www.rugreview.com/stuf/chincer.htm Tapestry images: http://cgi.tapestriesdirect.plus.com/acatalog/tapestriesdirect_com_TAPESTRY_WALLHANGINGS_16.html Tapestry history: http://www.io.com/~tapestry/ 6A People in Action    videos, models or diagrams showing how human figures move photographs showing figures in movement, eg Eadweard Muybridge art, craft and design work showing movement related to the theme of sport, dance and music from any time or culture, eg advertisements, images of athletes from ancient Greece, the work of expressionists, the work of futurists, such as 'Unique forms of continuity in space' and 'The dynamism of a footballer' by Boccioni; 'Wildly dancing children' by Nolde; 'The Cardiff team' by Robert Delaunay; 'The three dancers' by Picasso Art in the ancient world: http://www.artic.edu/cleo/index.html Eadweard Muybridge site: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/chronoph/muybridge/index.htm Boccioni online: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/boccioni_umberto.html Futurism painting: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/f/futurism.html More Boccioni: http://www.conceptualdesign.net/museum_beta/pages_inside/pages_essays/futurism_1.html Nolde online: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/nolde_emil.html Nolde wildly dancing children: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/N/nolde/wildly_dancing.jpg.html Delauney The Cardiff Team: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/charlotte/0301/030172.JPG Picasso, The Three Dancers: http://web.org.uk/picasso/dancers.html 6B What a performance   examples of designs for theatre sets and costumes, eg Leon Bakst's designs for Ballets Russes pictures, books and videos about different kinds of celebration, carnivals and performances Leon Bakst biography: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Bookstore/3496/gallery/bakst/biography.html Leon Bakst costumes: http://www.digischool.nl/ckv2/moderne/bakst/bakst.htm Ballet Russe Gallery: http://www.danceworksonline.co.uk/sidesteps/companies/balletrusses_gallery.htm Carnival of Venice: http://www.doge.it/calend/calendi.htm Ballet: http://www.ballet.co.uk/ English National Ballet: http://www.ballet.org.uk/ Theatre resources: http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/ Festivals around the world: http://www.festivals.com/ 6C A sense of place   photographs of local rural and/or urban landscapes examples of work by artists who have represented rural and/or urban landscapes, eg Constable, Gainsborough, Hockney, Turner, Heron, Sutherland, Leger, Escher Landscape adventure: http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/landscape1/index.html Landscapes of the world: http://www.fotosearch.com/corel/landscapes-of-the-world/COR377/ Photo Landscapes of the world: http://www.aidan.co.uk/photos9-Landscapes.php Visionary Landscapes: http://www.nwcreations.com/gallery_heavenearth.htm The natural world: http://nexwebsites.com/posters/cat/906/sub/907/ Japanese artist Makoto Nakamura's animated tessellations inspired by Escher - a fascinating site despite the language errors. : http://www18.big.or.jp/~mnaka/home.index.html National Geographic site: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html John Constable Web museum: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/constable/ Constable online: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/constable.html http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/constable_john.html Constable gallery: http://www.abcgallery.com/C/constable/constable.html Gainsboroughs house: http://www.gainsborough.org/ Gainsborough online: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gainsborough_thomas.html http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/gainsborough.html Gainsborough Gallery: http://www.abcgallery.com/G/gainsborough/gainsborough.html David Hockney: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hockney.html http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/ http://www.davidhockney.com/ http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hockney_david.html David Hockney Images: http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Hockney.html James Heron: http://www.realart.com/hfg/html/contemp-html/heron-html/heron_main.html Liz Sutherland: http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=1518 http://www.kiwiartz.co.nz/art/36/cat/painting Fernand Leger: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leger.html Leger images of work: http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Leger.html Escher: http://www.mcescher.com/ http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/ http://www.etropolis.com/escher/ http://home.comcast.net/~eschermc/ Biography of Escher: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Escher.html 9 Visit a museum, gallery or site This is the children's site of the 24-hour museum and has many interactive activities from UK galleries and collections. Content is targeted at Key Stages 1 & 2: http://www.show.me.uk/topicpage/teachers/tArt-and- Design.html Official site of The Louvre; http://www.louvre.fr/ Turning the Pages is an award-winning interactive program developed by and for the British Library that allows public access to rare and precious books while keeping the originals safely under glass. This site is a magical digitized treasure trove of some of the greatest books held by the British Library. Browse the facsimile pages as you listen to the audio commentary and use the magnifier to look more closely at details. Highlights of the collection are: Leonardo's Notebook, the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated medieval prayer book, a "lavishly illustrated" C14th Hebrew manuscript, an ancient copy of the Qur'an with its beautiful Arabic calligraphy, and a Chinese Buddhist scroll dating from 868.: http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation1.html The National Gallery Online: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ The National Portrait Gallery Online: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/index.asp The Tate Online: http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.shtm The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an interactive art timeline that runs from 2,000 BC to 2,000 AD. Timetravel by date or geographic location; follow the first-time user guide; watch the video clips.: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm Collect Britain presents 90,000 images and sounds from the British Library, chosen to evoke places in the UK and beyond: http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/ The Guggenheim museum online: http://www.guggenheim.org/ The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,500 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available. Guided tours, free postcard and other services are provided for the visitors: http://www.wga.hu/index.html Museum of African Art: http://www.africanart.org/ The Hermitage Museum: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html The Art lovers guide to Britain and Ireland: http://www.cogapp.com/uk/ a site devoted to Brit Art: Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, etc. State of the art Flash graphics and animations: http://www.whitecube.com/flash.html Photographic record of England's 360,000 listed buildings on the internet: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/intro.asp Free downloadable software: Terragen is a scenery generator that's free for personal non-commercial use. It creates photo-realistic scenery for professional landscape visualization [land, sea and sky], special effects, art and recreation. Develop your own virtual environment: http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ Mosaic Creator 2.35: create your own mosaic photomontages i.e. large images composed of a mosaic of tiny images for which you can specify the size and shape of the cell. The trial version has limited file sizes.: http://www.vnunet.com/downloads/1135216 Free drawing program by Mark Overmars - for younger children or SEN.: http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/drawingforchildren.html Make fully interactive puzzles from your own images (BMP, JPG or TIF) with this simple-to-use free promotional program from Tibo Software. Jigs@w Puzzle is a virtual jigsaw puzzle with 3D appearance and smooth movements that emulate the real thing. You can also add your own background music. As the puzzles are .exe files they can also be used interactively with an ordinary whiteboard.: http://www.tibosoftware.com/