Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
How to Add Art to Your Blog
Marn asked recently, Melissa asked months ago, and Sandpiper asked via The Homeschool Lounge about using art in blogging. Since it is a reoccurring question, I decided to answer it here. I hope my link tour adds some creative beauty to your memories.
The Studio of Corot, or Young woman seated before an Easel, 1868-70
Here are the resources I use:
If an image is copyrighted you will not be allowed to copy it.
While preparing this post, I noticed Art Renewal Center forbids copying their images for websites. I found their site through Wikipedia: Public domain image resources. That is not an excuse, but a reminder to check for yourself.
Images may be used for personal or educational use.
AllPosters.com has a free service that allows you to blog an image. After you find a print you like, scroll down to the link that says, Blog This Image. This gives you the code to insert into your blog. No uploading required. Be sure to read their terms.
I haven’t used this yet, but I plan to. Much of the photography has a Creative Commons license. For more information, I recommend A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images.
Is your blog on WordPress? Photo Dropper plugin allows you to quickly find and place Flickr images into your posts. I don’t remember where I first saw this plugin, but Dana of Principled Discovery recommended it to me, too.
Update: Heather mentioned that when using Creative Commons you need to give attribution. The article I linked to discusses this further, and the Photo Dropper plugin does it automatically. Attribution, a link back to the image author or site, is a perfect way to say thank you even if not expressly requested.
Sites I use less frequently, but are worth mentioning:
Nice collection for browsing. Liam requests usage credit.
I find this site more difficult to navigate, but there are a lot of nice vintage illustrations here.
Free to download and use. All clip art is in the public domain.
This is not a source for images, but it is a simple way to resize large files.
Do you use artwork in your blog? What are your favorite places to find illustrations? I know pictures of the kids are nice!
Thoughts about Teaching Art
Art is a subject area which our children love. It has been relegated to drawing without instruction, to coloring without observation, to modeling without purpose. The study of the life of Benjamin West, Father of American Painting, is helpful. He learned his first lessons of shading, line, and perspective by his own efforts. These are principles which we will enjoy teaching our students- and the use of pencil, crayon, brush.
Lisa and Summer, thanks for asking me what I’m reading! Would you believe this quote is from A Guide to American Christian Education? It has been next to my computer for weeks as I ponder principles of mathematics. Art is still more enjoyable for me than arithmetic, but my passion for the “language of science” is growing.
So what books are you savoring? I’m tagging:
Here are the rules:
- Pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages.
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the 5th sentence.
- Post the next 3 sentences.
- Tag 5 people.
(For those of us who count sentences, it’s true. I didn’t follow the rules. Shocking, isn’t it?)
Simply Art
Jenny of Little Acorns Treehouse shared a simple, beautiful solution for adding art to her homeschool.
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2008 Art Page-A-Day Calendar By Workman Publishing 2008 Art Page-A-Day Gallery calendar is an art gallery for your desk. Here are hundreds of masterpieces, each meticulously photographed and reproduced, from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Full-color throughout |
This calendar is now on my shopping list. Want to add it to yours? Click on the image above for more information, including additional views. Many different artists and time periods are represented.
Mixing simplicity with art suits me, and just think of all the possibilities for these prints.
