500 chrome Experiments

Here is a link to a 500 Chrome Experiments, These are made with Google Chrome it a wonderful interface which  connects to the 500 very creative apps. Check it out!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2YtHhx/500.chromeexperiments.com/?_nospa=true

Free Graphics Arts Programs

Here are some, free great graphics arts programs to Art it up with.


Sculptris is virtual clay modeling. It is a  very easy way to model in 3D. I have taught 6 year olds how to create using this program.


InkScape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw

http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en

Gimp is a  GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a raster  or bitmap graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Here is a free great alternative to Photoshop

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/


Artrage
The best actually real painting program I have seen for any price.
You can actually blend colors, just like real oil paints."
Starter edition is very basic and free however their 30 free trial of "Artrage 3.0" is incredible and only $60
$1.99 on the iphone or $5.99 for the ipad.  Give it a try.

http://www.artrage.com/artragedemo.html

Google SketchUp 8


Create 3D models and share them with the world

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. Build models and add them to Google Earth »

Get started right away.
Most people get rolling with SketchUp in just a few minutes. Dozens of video tutorials, an extensive Help Center and a worldwide user community mean that anyone who wants to make 3D models with SketchUp, can. Check out our training videos »
Model anything you can imagine.
Redecorate your living room. Design a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. Create a skatepark for your hometown, then export an animation and share it on YouTube. There's no limit to what you can create with SketchUp.

Get models online for free.
You can build models from scratch, or you can download what you need. People all over the world share what they've made on the Google 3D Warehouse. It's a huge, searchable repository of models, and it's free. Explore the Google 3D Warehouse »

http://sketchup.google.com/download/

We have access to a 3D Printer, go to http://www.dimensionprinting.com/ to see the possibilities. So when you create something in a Google Sketchup you can have it made into a real object.


Andrea Mosaic
Welcome to the official page of AndreaMosaic, a free project to create digital art using images and computer software. With AndreaMosaic you can create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures. A photo mosaic is an image composed of many tiled photos.

http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/

Processing
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Developed at MIT

http://processing.org/download/

Blender

Blender is a software 3D animation program. It can be used for modeling, texturing, rigging, skinning, animating, rendering, UV unwrapping, particle and other simulating, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. Blender has a robust feature set similar in scope and depth to other high-end 3D software such as 3ds Max and Maya.

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/


Bamboo (Small) Pen Tablet with Pen Only
If you really are planning on working creating "art" on a computer, then you need this great tool for inputting your ideas. Using this with "Artrage" is the most realistic way of painting on a computer screen I have experienced.

Amazon has the best price $49.99 or direct at Wacom for a reconditioned one which just had a packaged opened by customer then returned .

http://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Small-Pen-Tablet-Only/dp/B000V9T2JA

Photo fly turn digital images into 3D

Spring 2011 Student blogs

Benjamin Stoner's Blog



http://beninhisbedroom.blogspot.com/






Devon Klomp's

http://orangechill22designs.blogspot.com/






Andrew Bell's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif



http://andrewbellpurpledragons.blogspot.com/



Donny Elmo Blogspot "The Real Elmo"



http://therealelmo.blogspot.com/




Julia M. Knoll's Blog

http://juliamknoll.blogspot.com/

Hand Drawn Animation by high School Students on Fine Arts Day at Aquinas College

Animated GIFS and Detailed Digital Collage

Immaterials: light painting WiFi

Visualize Wi-Fi

New Digital Delights by Jerry Berta

USA of Art

Sculptris an easy to use 3D clay modeling program.

Link to the download
The link is at the end of the first letter.

Google Art Project.

Google takes it Street view Technology to the best world Class Art Museums. \Some images are in in super hi res. Billions and Billions of pixels.

Design To Fabrication: When 3D Becomes Our Daily Reality

First 3D Printed Building

Dini claims the d-shape process is four times faster than conventional building, costs a third to a half as much as using Portland cement, creates little waste and is better for the environment. But its chief selling point may simply be that it makes creating Gaudiesque, curvy structures simple

3d printers where introduced about a decade ago, and since then they have significantly evolved, their cost has been reduced, and they have become a widely used technology. Nowadays you can find a commercial 3d printer the size of a fridge in many architecture firms and schools, used to produce in-house rapid prototype models of their designs. Some projects, such as Fab@home, MakerBot and RepRap, have even been pushing to make this technology affordable and available on a personal basis, so that anyone can 3d print from their desktop at home.

One of the main shortcomings of 3d printers when they initially appeared was the actual material in which the parts were printed. The resilience of the material, its appearance, and the resolution in which they print, have evolved since. And, whereas there were not many material alternatives before, today there are 3d printers that can work with clay, cement, sand and even titanium. There is also the technology to print with multiple materials and colors.

logy to 3d print in stone. The result: being able to print buildings on a one-to-one scale.



D-shape

Enrico Dini's massive 6m x 6m 3d printer rests on four extendable pillars and works by depositing a structural inorganic binder on a sand layer in sections of 5-10mm. The process turns inorganic, cheap and ecological materials into a compact stone similar to marble. On a non-stop work session the machine starts from the foundation and constructs everything all the way to the top of the roof, including stairs, interior walls, columns, and even the cabling and piping cavities.

Masking Tape Street Art by Buff Diss

Katharina Grosse large painting installations.

Her web site looks like it is all text. Just click on something. Big ART!

Clyde Butcher Some people call him the Ansel Adams of the Everglades

Little Butternut Key, Florida ( c) Clyde Butcher

Huffingpost Article with video exerts.

Cal Lane Artist

This piece was in Artprize


Cal Lane working on one of here pieces.



Artprize page

William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible

William Kentridge - Mine (1991) a film all done with charcoal and paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7WtFZKwdtc

American car brochures

A great source for very clean images of American Cars.

iPad paintings by Corliss Blakely

These are iPad paintings by Corliss Blakely, there is even a tutorial on how to do it.

VIP Art Fair Online Exhibit

VIP Art Fair is the first art fair to mobilize the collective force of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries with the unlimited reach of the Internet. Its inaugural fair will take place exclusively online for one week only, January 22-30, 2011, at www.vipartfair.com.