Here are some links to various Art-related resources that I've found interesting or useful. I will update this list from time to time as I discover new and exciting resources for committing art. Feel free to suggest any links you think would be of interest or utility in the comments below.
Cool Tools
Handy Art References
Something to See
Artistic Inspirations
Publications
Last Updated: February 18, 2014
Cool Tools
- Adobe I like my copy of Photoshop. I'm still getting the hang of InDesign. I'm not in any hurry to upgrade.
- Al.chemy Cool online tool for making shapes and stuff.
- Art Pad Paint online.
- Art Rage We have an older version of this software somewhere around here. Our daughter loved it.
- Artweaver An affordably-excellent image manipulation and digital painting program.
- Bomomo Try it!
- Canva A super easy-to-use online design tool.
- Context-Free Art Interesting experimental online art tool.
- Creately Diagram-making.
- Drawisland Online drawing tool.
- Easel.ly Create online infographics.
- Fatpaint Online design, logo-maker and more.
- Flamepainter Online painting app.
- Flockdraw Draw online with others.
- Imageforge Freeware image manipulation.
- Infogr.am Free online info-graphics maker.
- Inkscape Free vector graphics program.
- Kleki.com Online painting-in-your-browser tool.
- Myoats Online pattern maker and more.
- Queeky Online Painting app.
- Piktochart Make your own info-graphics.
- Psykopaint Online painting.
- Scribbler Nice little scribble-pad.
- Silk Online graphics with ambient/Newage music.
- Sketch-n-Paint Another online painting app.
- Sketchpad Online doodling.
- Sketchswap Fun scribble-trading game.
- Sumo Online digital painting.
- Vectormagic Convert bitmaps to vectors.
- Viscosity Nice toy.
- Visual.ly Image marketplace.
- Wordle Make your own word-clouds.
Handy Art References
- Artcyclopedia Online encyclopedia of all things art.
- Artlex Online Art Dictionary.
- Art Directory Lots and lots of artist biographies.
- Art List Pro A Daily Dose of Contemporary Art.
- Art Story Everything you wanted to know about Movements, theory and more.
- Bibliodyssey An incredible resource-packed blog.
- Book Arts All sorts of book-related things, quite interesting.
- Design You Trust Oh those wacky designers...
- Karen's Whimsy Online repository of many, many public domain clip-art images. We reviewed them.
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- Lilek's All sorts of cool stuff. A massive collection of things to gawk at and mock.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art now this list has a little class.
- MOMA Yeah. If you have to...
- Neosurrealism Not sure what it is exactly, but some of the work is pretty interesting...
- Surrealist.com A pretty extensive collection of all things surreal.
- Surrealism UK A lively, ongoing group engaged in surreal pursuits.
- Surrealism.org More surreal stuff.
- Wikiquote for Andre Breton...because he's cool.
- Woodblock A great, informative site walking you through the process of woodblock printing.
- Fonts.com Google fonts.
- Fount Handy tool for discovering what that font is that you've just spotted on a site.
- My Fonts Buy a few fonts.
- What the Font Another way to find out what font is that?
Something to See
- Dark Classics Art Gallery Blog.
- Library of Congress digital archives.
- Go Surreal Interesting blog; surrealism as a path to self-discovery.
- One Surrealist A Day Nifty surreal blog.
- Pictorial Arts Nifty blog of images.
- RoqlaRue Cool Gallery.
- Upland Trout Cool blog.
Artistic Inspirations
Publications
Last Updated: February 18, 2014