THE ART Q & A INDEX PAGE
Another great interactive site for finding out how to do things in or about visual arts!
The Digital Drawing Board
An American art teacher's attractive site offering online feedback and answers along with posted answers to previous questions.
Art Tutorials[ART STAND]
Has an "Ask the Artist" with answers (it claims) emailed to both the individual inquirer and indexed on their "Artist Answer Page".
The Charcoal Page Q's and A's Board: Info"
Post questions,submit answers and/or view both from previous respondents. Superb site by Don C.Schrock Jr. from Indianapolis,Ind.,USA!
Drawing:
The Charcoal Page Tips & Tricks
Fine page of usefull information from an Indianapois,Ind.USA artist for the charcoal medium.
Mark Kistler's Electronic Pencil Power Playground!
Fabuluous site especially for teaching(as well as self-directed)drawing/cartooning! Has online drawing/cartooning lessons.
Check his links: "The Twelve Renaissance Words of Drawing in 3-D" and "3-D Drawing Adventures!"
Mark Kistler's Imagination Station Drawing in 3-D World Wide Web Page!
A commercially slanted but still valuable site that describes the above artist's produced materials such as "Mark Kistler's Imagination Station Video Series(Lessons #1-#36)"[3 videos of about 18 hours total];"Imagination Station" CD-ROM(with sketchbook);...
The Cartoonist's Fountain of Knowledge
From down under an Australian cartoonist's friendly site with very good links including a "Tips and Techniques" section of links.
DEGA Studios: Creating Comics
David A.Law's very good links list subdivided by function(eg."Writing","Illustrating","Lettering" links,etc.).
Don Simpson's College of Cartooning Knowledge
Excellent site! This professional cartoonist has links such as "Introduction to Cartooning","Master Class in Cartooning(How to Draw Comics The Fiasco Way)" and "Figure Drawing" that will prove invaluable for the beginner to consult.
He uses his own work to demonstrate his methods and techniques giving preliminary and work sketches with detailed but concise explanations. Excellently written and presented.
Cartoon Mania Course
Jerry Hish's very nicely designed and user friendly site and he is from HAMILTON,ONTARIO! "The cartoon drawing course for children of all ages".
Watercolor Online - Watercolor Articles and Tutorials
From Provo,Utah,USA a fine site that displays diverse watercolour work and which has a valuable "Watercolor Articles and Tutorials" section with currently 3 excellent illustrated articles by the American watercolorists Linda Gunn and Carole Katchen.
Artist's Corner - Painting Lessons
Barbara Safran,artist and teacher from New Brunswick,Canada gives concise illustrated lessons on basic water colour techniques. Kudos to her!
Classical Oil Painting Technique
Well laid out and detailed step-by-step page explaining classical oil painting technique from artist Alexei Antonon.
Crayola Art Education *Art Techniques
Binney & Smith(Easton,Pa.USA)superb pages on techniques and ideas. Not just crayons! Markers,paints,coloured pencils,tempera,acrylic colours,dough...! Great site with examples of student art illustrating techniques! Their 1-800-CRAYOLA phone number may come in handy!
Jones on Prairie Paper
Profess Douglas W.Jones's (University of Iowa) detailed instructions for Grade 5 to Grade 10 level learners.
References(Art and otherwise cause you never know!)
The big books(or look at those megs!):
ArtLex
"a dictionary of visual art terminology". 1800+ terms including a usefull shortcut on the main page to lengthy entries such as "Sculpture".
WORDS OF ART: An On-Line Glossary Of Theory And Criticism For The Visual Arts
Professor Robert J.Belton's excellent if academically and art historically slanted(don't hold that against him please;after all he is a Canadian and this is a B.C.,Canadian site!)that will be very usefull the more you consult it(kinda of grows on you).
SMA Printroom,Glossary
Excellently concise defintions from "Aquatint" to "Zincograph" with 3 for further reading books [dating from 1980-1990 and including one major Canadian encyclopedia on the subject]
Multicultural Visual/Fine Arts and related sites:
Pysanky
Pysanky: Ukrainian(Eastern European)traditional Easter/Folk Art Eggs(How to make).
Pysanky Instructions for Pagans
Rowan Fairgove's short history and text based explanation of how to make these decorative eggs.
MASK LINKS
MASKS.ORG's wonderfull and truly international links to specific sites and images from around the world of diverse culture's/people's masks(eg.Atlas of Indigenous Peoples). A beautifull site wonderfully maintained! Five stars for this one!
