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"Tux Paint Open Source Drawing Software for Children This is a free drawing program for children ages 3 to 12. It has a user friendly interface, and  fun sound effects. It is available for download for Windows XP, 2000, Vista 7. (About sponsors) Next From the gallery: Manga Harry Potter By: Vashti Tux Paint is free computer art software for children. * About * Features * Screenshots * Videos * Gallery * Stamps * Reviews * Schools Using It * User Comments * Requirements * Download * Purchase * Documentation * Known Issues * Merchandise * Events * News * Mailing Lists * Developers * Help Us * Links * Contact The Web tuxpaint.org "One of the best freeware programs I have tested in a long time!" - Ask The Computer Lady, February 2006 Open Source CMS 5-Star and "100 Clean" rating, April 2007 More reviews & awards... Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. (See the full list of features.) "

I came across the app Painting With Time and Painting with Time: Climate Change a few months ago and was absolutely blown away! As Earth Day is on the horizon (Sunday, April 22nd 2012), I thought it might be app-ropro to provide a handful of suggestions to teach climate change and support being green using the iPad. (The climate change app is currently paid for Earth Day. The app developer will be donating half of the net proceeds to the Union of Concerned Scientists to aid their research on the effects of climate change on our planet.)

Paintings from across the nation

Psykopaint is a website where users learn and enjoy painting using a wide variety of tools such as brushes, pencils, and many more. It is so much fun to use.

Great online paint program with plenty of advanced features and a lots of languages.

Google VR Painting

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include: * Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects * Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers * Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts * Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

A useful online drawing tool for making interesting pictures and fabulous patterns. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.

Sketchpad  is a cool platform that you can use to make awesome drawings using text and a wide range of colours and patterns.

Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture. By combining simple motion controls with brush styles, Livebrush offers a fun and unique way to create graphics.

Flockdraw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text. Start drawing now!

iPiccy is another great photo editing web site. It allows its users to add wonderful effects to their images. What is great about this tool is that it does not require any installation or download. Whenever you are connected you can just head over to its main page and start editing right from there. iPiccy offers a plethora of editing functions that you can use very easily . Among these editing  services are resizing, cropping, rotation, contrast fixing, and equalizing.. You can also use their cartonizing tools to turn your pictures into cartoons, a service which i like the most.     iPiccy lets you upload your own pictures from your computer or  select an image that is stored online. In case you do not have any , you can take one with your webcam or use the paint tools to draw yours. Some features of iPiccy

para editar fotos puede ser para KS3

Filtros, para dar efectos a las fotos, es elemental.

A place where you can search for any artist and his/her work. Photography examples. From Gothic Painting (1280-1515), The Italian Renaissance (1420-1600), # Baroque (1600-1790), Revolution and Restoration, Impressionism (1860-1900), The 20th century,Japanese Art and Architecture

Historia de arte para todos

Huge murals of revolutionary art painted by Mexican artists

A site where budding artist post their work. For us educators, the site offers a huge collection of great artwork to use in class. This is a nice idea for our art students.

Pencil is an animation/ drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation ( cartoon ) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. it requires download.

Odosketch is another cool tool that lets you create great looking sketches for free. It requires a sign up.

"Drawing For Children Written by Mark Overmars Drawing for Childen is a free drawing program for children with many nice options. You can draw with many different pens, you can put stamps on your drawings, create all sort of text effects, and much more. The program is suitable for very young children and has a child mode especially for them. But it also provides lots of fun to older kids. It is used by hundreds of thousands of kids all over the world. The best way to see what is possible is to simply download it and install it. Remember, it is free. "