Available from Seedling USA, Seedling Comic Studio is a freeiOS tool for creating comics/graphic stories. Students can make one-frame or an entire multipage book combining photographs from their camera or camera roll, cutouts, speech bubbles, free-form text, filters, backgrounds, and stickers.
With Let’s create! Pottery HD by Infinite Dreams for iOS and Android devices, students can become artists and create one-of-a-kind ceramic pottery items by imagining, designing, and even printing their 3D pots. Students can throw their clay on the wheel, release all their artistic talents, and take benefit of dozens of materials available to create their own designs. After completing their designs, users can convert their virtual pots into real objects by selecting to print them in 3D.
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles provides freelessons that integrate art into the curriculum. One of these lessons focuses on Understanding Formal Analysis. In the lesson, students explore the elements of art and principles of design used by artists. Students discover how to identify the elements and principles, and evaluate their role in the composition of a work of art.
Teachers and students can use the J.Paul Getty Museum’s innovative Language through Art: An ESL Enrichment Curriculum! to explore together the ways in which observing and expressing ideas about art help to improve language skills.