Art teachers often need to give students a quiet activity to do when some finish the project early and others are still working. The Art Games at the Allbright Knox Art Gallery site has a paint splattering activity that slightly resembles the work of Jackson Pollock. It is a lot of fun, both for children and adults. I have made a screen shot of my splatter piece, above. It is interestig to try to ccomplish unity and balance while not turning the whole thing into a mess. I'm not sure I succeeded, but the students love to play with this site.Here is another way to engage students in modern art styles in relevant ways, yet remain clean.
Anther feature about this site is the wonderful example of animated perspective drawing of a pencil, on the first page of the games. The steps are fundamental, and all the key words of classical perspective drawing are highlighted and represented in the making of a pencil rocket, in linear perspective. The author also covers shading and crosshatching for shadows. Very well done demonstration animation. Students of all ages enjoy this site for it's activities and don't even realize they are learning in the fun processes.
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