Five Interesting and Useful Art-Related Websites

Today's post features cool art-related websites that are unique and or useful and interesting. I've gone to great web-surfing lengths to bring you only high-quality creative sites that you will absolutely enjoy browsing, so here we go:

• Imaginify Community Network: "A collaborative exploration connecting creative movements and magnifying grassroots concepts & practices."
  

This is a very awesome blog/network/website promoting creative awareness, knowledge growth, new ideas, new positive world culture, understanding etc. If you're looking for a place to network with open-minded creative individuals of all kinds, this is it.

• The Scribbler "A generative illustration toy by zefrank.com"
  

Just make a doodle and press go, and this toy creates a sketch over your drawing, resulting in a very pleasing and professional looking image. The sketch it creates gets kind of woven around your drawing, repeating until you press stop. Words don't do it justice, take a moment to play with this ingenious little web-page. Check out a 30-second drawing I did with it below:

by Ed Tajchman ©

• What is a Print?

This is just a short little demonstration, but it's very informative; it's the best 5 minute explanation of the printmaking process ever! This interactive animation explains the difference between woodcuts, lithography, screenprints, and etchings. It shows the processes of each type of printmaking and includes a gallery showing examples of the different kinds of prints. From MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art).

• National Gallery of Art

One of the best, most professional, informative and comprehensive online museum/galleries that I have come across. Take one of the online tours, and browse a plethora of art by artist, artwork or theme.

• PDphoto.org

One of, if not the best source for high quality public domain photography in the world-wide-web. Make sure to check the credit for each photo, but most are in the public domain. A very useful and generous site, make sure and link back to them if you do use their images.

Green Sweat Bee

I hope you find those pages as interesting as I do; let me leave you with a quote about discovering interesting things:

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.” -Aldous Huxley

Now I can't promise that the websites listed above are more interesting than sex, but what the hell; give them a try.