Art in FocusChapter 3:
Creating Art: Media and ProcessesWeb Links
| The Colored Pencil Society of America | | Colored pencils are often overlooked as a medium for creating serious works of art. This site shows you some amazing drawings made with this simple, easy-to-use tool. Visit the gallery and look for a work that you like. Do you like the subject, the colors, or the style? Create your own colored pencil drawing using your favorite aspect of the drawing as a starting point.
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http://cpsa.org/
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| The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci | | Da Vinci filled the pages of his notebooks with drawings that helped him understand human anatomy, the principles of the natural world, and scientific theories. Start a notebook of you own by drawing and writing about your life. What do you do each day? What do you want to be doing in five years? Pick one of Leonardo's drawings from this Web site and copy it into your notebook. Write about why you chose this one to copy.
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http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html
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| What is a Print? | | The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents an interactive demonstration of various methods of printmaking, with examples from different cultures and time periods. View the artworks on this site. What features of the prints indicate the process used to create them?
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http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/whatisaprint/flash.html
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| Photography at the George Eastman House | | The George Eastman House collection contains more than 400,000 photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. This site presents a great sample from the collection. Visit the online gallery to view photographs made using a variety of photographic processes. Read biographies of the photographers who created them. Search the online collections of the Eastman House to see how technology has changed photography.
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http://www.eastmanhouse.org/redirect.html
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