Resources to help support your art inquiry, or to give you some ideas about skills to work on, art concepts that could add an art-related component to an existing inquiry, or simply some activity ideas.
Call for Artist Submissions:
| Metropol is looking for artists to create posters that will liven up Victoria’s downtown core during this somewhat bleak pandemic period. (Size info here) |
Visual Art Activities and Resources
| Lauren E. has generously created a website that is designed to help you learn how to use Adobe After Effects. This is what she used in the creation of her animated family tree of the British Windsor royal family. Here is her Learn Adobe AE website. |
| PSII Trello Board for Art and Design: full of resources, guides, and ideas! |
| April Art Prompts (for drawing painting, photography, sculpting…) Use these prompts as “dailies” so that you don’t get stuck on anything for too long. It is a good way to break through perfectionism and to work on techniques or styles through repetitive practice, without repetitive subjects. |
| Recreating Artworks Using What You Have At Home: https://www.sadanduseless.com/recreated-art/ |
| ‘Grapefruit‘, Yoko Ono’s Book of Instructions and Drawings |
| ‘Do It’ by Hans Ulrich Obrist. A series of instructional procedures by some of the greatest figures in contemporary art, designed for anyone to follow as a sort of DIY toolkit for creating boundary-expanding art. This article has examples from the book: |
| BC Culture Online: Visit museums, view live music, watch dance, explore science centres, all from the comfort of your home. |