About the Library

 

  

GENERAL

American Royal Arts Corp.- Graphics and cells from many famous cartoons.

Appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy- "Calligraphy is an art dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout China to this day."

Artlex Dictionary of Visual Art- "You will find definitions of more than 2,800 terms here, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web."

Brunswick Junior High School Student Gallery - Artwork by the students of this school.

Illustrations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland- Various illustrators over the years have depicted Alice’s adventures.  This page links to several such.

The Impressionist- A paint program that lets you "create a painted representation of a photograph.  It does this by sampling colors from the source image ...n drawing brush strokes onto the canvas."

Jon Anderson and Sunny Pouliot's Firewind Pottery and Hand Blown Glass- Not only beautiful photos of pieces, but also descriptions of the processes involved.

PBL Junior High Art - Mrs. Ager's art pages, including student work.

Pixar Short Films - If you like animation, here is Pixar's own site where you can watch the award-winning shorts.

Scribbler - Draw a simple stick figure & watch the computer embellish it.

 

ARTISTS

Diego Rivera Web Museum- "The virtual museum devoted to the Mexican muralist."  Available in Spanish or English.

On-line Picasso Project- Officially recognized by the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation, this is dedicated to the artist.

 

Museums

The Artchive- Includes not only galleries of art pieces, but criticisms and reviews.

The Louvre Museum Official Website - Everything you want to know about the Paris museum.

Norton Simon Museum- This site is a good one to use as an introduction to museums.  It has a few works online.

WebExhitibs - Exhibits on various topics including several on color.

WebMuseum- An on-line museum covering many aspects and periods in art.

WebMuseum: The 20th century- Information, images & links belonging to 20th century artists.

 

 

ORIGAMI

Joseph Wu's Origami Page- One of the better origami pages.  Includes some directions.

Jasper's Home Page- Includes examples of origami, as well as instructions and other links.

Mark's Origami Olio- Not only original origami, but links also.

YAMAHA MOTOR - Paper crafts (origami) by Yamaha. A free website where a variety of designs for objects ranging from motorcycles to rare animals can be downloaded and made.

Yahoo's search for Origami- Many sites listed.

Updated 06/30/11 by M. Dulaney