PLAY WITH ART

Hi kids!

Show your artistic skills and flair at Playing by Art where you can combine different styles and elements from the best artists of all time to easily create your own masterpiece.
Choose a background for your painting, select elements from the categories, change their position, size and angle, choose contrast, brightness, opacity... and your creation will be unique and personal!

PLAY WITH ART

CREATE AN ARCIMBOLDO PORTRAIT

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating many pictures building faces from fruit and vegetables and sometimes creatures, books and other objects.
Try to create a portrait using just fruit and vegetables at Archimboldo Art Creator.
Drag items you like best and enjoy creating your own artwork to describe it on your blogs.

CREATE AN ARCIMBOLDO PORTRAIT

DESIGN YOUR OWN ARTS & CRAFTS TILE

Create your own designs inspired by the tiles of Willian de Morgan at V&A International Arts and Crafts.
Choose shapes and drag them onto your tile, change the look of the selected shapes, the tile background colour and add the number of tiles to put together.
Save your finished design in the gallery, make a screen capture to publish on your blogs or send it to a friend.
Enjoy!

DESIGN YOUR OWN ARTS & CRAFTS TILE

CREATE 3D PIXEL ART ONLINE

At Q-Block you can create 3D pixel art for free using its easy to use tools. You can edit, copy and extrude pixel layers, change colours, customize background, show/hide canvas and rotate 360°.

Check out popular arts created by other Q-Block users because you can select any art image you like and load it inside the editor to make additional changes and later download it to your computer.

Save your arts online or download them as wallpaper or animated GIFs.
Have fun!

CREATE 3D PIXEL ART ONLINE

GENERATE AN ARTISTIC DREAM

Leonardo Solaas’ Dreamlines is a generative drawing machine that creates unique paintings after words you choose. Enter a couple of keywords that define the subject of your dream and the machine will create a slow visualization based on your words with animated drawings, morphing and changing over time without ever showing the images explicitly.

Enjoy your dreams, kids!

* My dream: "Under the rainbow"

GENERATE AN ARTISTIC DREAM

DESIGN AN ARTISTIC QUILT

At International Quilt Study Center & Museum you can design your own unique digital quilt, which can then be emailed or posted in an online gallery.

Click on "Making a quilt" and select patterns, make variations on them, pick the fabrics you like, choose a border and apply geometric patterns to add the final layer of design to your quilt.

You can place your fabrics to all the blocks in your quilt or design each block individually.

Here are two examples. Now, design your own and enjoy!

DESIGN AN ARTISTIC QUILT

CREATE YOUR OWN AMINAH MASTERPIECE

Aminah Robinson is an artist from Columbus-Ohio who combines traditional art materials with found objects and everyday materials (buttons, cloth, leather, twigs, shells...) to create two and three dimensional works of art.

Learn more about this great artist at Aminah's World and create your own masterpiece by following these steps:
1- Choose a background
2- Choose a suply category (mud cloth, miscellaneous fabric, feathers, paper, ties, buttons & shells ...)
3- Click on objects to place them on your canvas
4- Drag items to another position and resize them on the canvas to create your art.
5- Share your artwort to the gallery or download it to your computer.

CREATE YOUR OWN AMINAH MASTERPIECE

VISUALIZE YOUR OWN DREAM

Hi kids! What did you dream last night?

At Max my Dream you can type in what you dreamed and instantly turn your dreams into an animated experience with illustrations and sounds that you can share with your friends.

For example I dreamed that aliens invaded my city. Click on the picture above to watch my experience.

Try yours now. Sweet dreams!

VISUALIZE YOUR OWN DREAM

CREATE YOUR OWN SELF PORTRAIT

Hi kids!
At ArtisanCam Self Portraits you can create your artistic self portrait. First select a boy or a girl and drag the lines of the face until it represents you. Then choose colours for clothes, background, skin tone and hair colour.
At the end write your name, occupation and date and send it to the gallery or a friend.

CREATE YOUR OWN SELF PORTRAIT

DESIGN YOUR OWN GRAFFITI GRAPHIPCS

Graffiti Creator.net allows you to create custom graffiti style artwork online. Write your name or logotype and choose fonts, colours, shapes, shadows, backgrounds... any way you like!

The font I chose to write my username is Potent Font. It´s my favourite.

Try it yourself now. Come on, kids!

DESIGN YOUR OWN GRAFFITI GRAPHIPCS

DESIGN NATURAL ART SCULPTURES

ArtisanCam´s Trees & Tides allows you to create a sculpture with stones on the beach or leaves in the woods. Choose where you want to go first and then play with the objects around you.
Here are some tips for making the most of the resource:
-The stick can be used to dig a black hole.

-The leaves can be rotated using the arrow keys.
-The iron stone near the stick can be used to scratch other stones.
When you have finished your creation, take a photograph with a virtual camera to save and share it with your friends. Enjoy!

DESIGN NATURAL ART SCULPTURES

PLAY WARHOL´S WORLD

Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker and filmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as "Pop Art".

Learn about his life at Warhol´s World website. You have to complete four capsules:

1- Andy at Home.

2- Andy´s Commercial Art Career.

3- Andy´s Silver Factory.

4- Andy the Superstar.

If you complete the game successfully, you will get a certificate like this. Try it yourself!

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When you ´ve finished with the game, create your Pop Art Poster with your photo or avatar or any image you like following Warhol style.

Enjoy!

PLAY WARHOL´S WORLD

MASTERPIECE YOURSELF!

Do you like art, kids?

At Masterpiece Yourself you can create your own classic painting like Van Gogh´s "Self Portrait", "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Vermeer...

1- Choose an artist.

2- Upload your photo or avatar.

3- Adjust the image (scale, rotate and center)

4- Name your portrait.

5- Save your creation and send it to your friends.

6- Go to the gallery to see your masterpiece.

7- Learn about the Artists.

Look at my painting. I chose "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt because he is one of my favourite artists. It´s very romantic. Don´t you think so?

MASTERPIECE YOURSELF!

WOMEN IN ART

Today is the International Women´s Day. Have a look at this great video with a nice collection of paintings of women through the years. Many of the greatest artists of all time are represented here: El Greco, Raphael, Botticelli, Renoir, Dali, Picasso...

If you want to identify some of the artworks and the artists used in this video click on the image above.

Enjoy!

WOMEN IN ART

THE SECRET DANCER GAME

The Secret Dancer is a Tate Modern´s creation of an online game which has "The Little Dancer" bronze statue, by Edgar Degas, as the main character.

In the game the Little Dancer comes alive, running and hiding in Tate Modern museum in London until the clues are solved and she performs a dance.

Watch this interactive film game and find the Little Dancer by clicking quickly and solving puzzles along the way. It´s really entertaining and fun!

Enjoy!

THE SECRET DANCER GAME

EXPLORE MODERN ART

Travel to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and P.S.1 Contemporany Art Center in New York City with an alien creature!

On the Destination: Modern Art website you can look carefully at artworks, learn about artists, their techniques, their inspirations and play online activities.

Click on an artwork to go to the activities and use the arrow buttons to move back and forth.

Enjoy your journey exploring modern art, kids!

EXPLORE MODERN ART

CARTOONIZE YOUR PICTURES

Have a look at the posters I created of your favourite celebrities Zac Efron and Miley Cyrus.

Be Funky is a funny application that lets you take any photo, from your computer or from the web, and transform it into a sketch or a cartoon. Turn your picture into incredible artwork!

You are going to love this site. Enjoy it!

CARTOONIZE YOUR PICTURES

DESIGN YOUR OWN FLOWERS

The online Flower Maker Beta website lets you create beautiful flowers by clicking and dragging petal colors and petal styles.
You can make your own flowers or see and use ones create by people all around the world.

When you´ve finished, select your flower from the list and send it to your mum on Mother´s Day.

DESIGN YOUR OWN FLOWERS

PAPER TOY CREATOR

Paper Critters is a very funny application for creating digital paper toys in 3D. Design and print out your own paper toy or share it online with your friends.
Choose the "Toy Creator" if you want to start making your own toy or go to "The Colony" to view an interactive gallery of all the toys. It´s extensive and funny!

This is my Paper Critter. It´s cute, isn´t it?

PAPER TOY CREATOR

EASY ART WITH ARTPAD

This is a fun way to create your own "artwork". You can scribble, paint, draw and play around with art and when you have finished your painting you have a choise of frames and finally you can hang it in the gallery to admire!

EASY ART WITH ARTPAD