Are you wishing you had $650 for your very own copy of Photoshop? $600 for Illustrator? or $1800 for the entire Adobe Creativity Suite? Are you tempted to turn to pirating? Don’t do it! Here are some tools that will do the job very well, free.
For image editing a la Photoshop try GIMP, a […]

Schmap.com, a site that mashes Yahoo Maps and Flickr images, recently added one of our daughter’s photos to its collection of images of Town Square Municipal Park in downtown Anchorage. The photo is scanned from a B&W print she developed herself showing ice skaters in front of the Center for the Performing Arts. Higher resolution […]

Do your kids have an artistic bent? Google is looking for more Doodles for its homepage like the pictures below. There are some great prizes including scholarships and school grants. Details here.
These are Google Doodles for St. Patrick’s Day and Einstein’s birthday.
    

Truth be told, our family’s approach to teaching/learning art has been a conglomerate of six-week classes and a smattering of “really cool” art books that I hoped my children would independently thumb through. I am delighted to have hit upon a great resource that takes the teaching/learning of basic art history/theory and practice to […]