2R 2008

A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again without any gaps or overlaps.

Escher was a very famous artist who loved to make tessellations. You can visit his tessellation gallery here. 

Can you put the pieces together for the bird tessellation? You can also try many other tessellations at the bottom of the page when you are done. Click here to start

You can also visit Polygon Playground (below) and try create your own tessellations using regular shapes.

Click the pictures below to have a closer look at a couple of M.C. Escher’s most famous art works (not tessellations). Is it possible to build a building like these?

Art Pad is a painting program that can help you improve your painting skills. When doing the background try a thick brush and long brush strokes with colours/shades that overlap. Then add detail in the foreground.

Create a landscape and save it to the gallery and then copy the address (url) to the comments, just like we did in Wordle. This will let everyone see your fantastic artwork brush stroke by brush stroke.

Click Here

This website will help teach you more about landscapes and how to create them with feeling. It will begin with a little information and show you some wonderful pictures. It will then ask you a few questions and let you create a landscape.

You can create 3 different landscapes:

• Sleepy Landscape (Mood)
• Deep Landscape (Perspective)
• Landscape that shows the weather

Click Here

Jackson Pollock was born in America in 1912. When he was 24 he was introduced to the idea of liquid paint at a experimental workshop. A few years later he started painting by laying the canvas on the floor and tying tins of paint hanging over the canvas. Pollock would then poke holes in the tins and let them move in every and any direction as they dripped. In 2006 his painting “No. 5, 1948″ (the painting on the left) sold for $140 million.

Click here to try and create your own Jackson Pollock.

Drag the parts of the face wherever you like. Add the hair last. You can make each part larger or smaller by pressing the “+” or “-” key while dragging it. You can move it behind the face by pressing “B” while dragging it. Press “F” to move it in front of the face. And you can always drag the parts into the Trash Can and start over. www.alifetimeofcolor.com/create/portrait1