Learn How To...

This useful section is specifically for 'How To' guides - links to the best websites that have information to help to use software, show you some wonderful art techniques or even give you information on starting an art related business. Check the buttons on the left to find your favourite subject.

They are in no particular order so keep scrolling.....you never know what you might find! (Links open in a new window).

Starting an Craft Business
This excellent non-profit making site is full of wonderful hints and tips for all you crafty people who want to turn your hobby into a business. Have alook at the 9 articles in the Starting Up category

Artists' Glossary
Do the terms that artists use bewilder you? Try this great A-Z glossary that explains it all in easy descriptions

Office Picture Manager
For those who are using Microsoft Office Picture Manager to edit images, here is a great manual from OIT Academic Computing, Instructional Media Lab.

Art Teachers Guide to the Internet
On the Art Teachers Guide to the Internet you will find a whole range of resources.  This link takes you to the teaches page containing lots of useful information, but try the other parts of the site too. Have a look in the 'archives' section and other art departments web sites on this site from the USA. 

GCSE Art Bitesize
Where is a better place to learn than the BBC - their GCSE Art Bitesize is full of information, facts, practicalities and links to other art websites. Interesting for those who may or not be studying art.

LSDA
Applied Art and Design by the Learning and Skills Development Agency is designed for teachers or A Level students with lesson plans and student activities. For post 16 teachers, the activities map to the awarding bodies (EdExcel and OCR). Have a look as it has lots to offer for non educationalists too..

Dede Tisone-Bartel
Art lessons, museums and other valuable art lessons from Dede Tisone-Bartel. The site invites you into a world of visual art. Have a look at the Basic Art Lessons link on the left hand side of the site.

How to Paint like Jackson Pollock
....for a bit of fun, read this paragraph, then come back and Click this Link. The Jackson Pollock emulator is a simple Flash toy that simulates the drip style of painting popularised by Jackson Pollock. The entire browser window is a blank white canvas and your mouse becomes the paintbrush. Move the cursor over the surface to pour paint, changing colors with the left mouse button. Linger over one area for some time to leave large blotches or shake the mouse back and forth for light streams of paint. You may not create a masterpiece, but it's an engaging way to let your creativity flow.