Art for Kids

BRUSHster is a painting machine for all ages. This interactive has more than forty brushes and many customizable size, transparency, and stroke options. A rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs make BRUSHster a full-feature painting program. You can use it to draw pictures, but BRUSHster is programmed to create ABSTRACT art. Are you more interested in exploring color, gesture, shape, or line? BRUSHster can do it all. Check out our Flash slideshow of BRUSHster paintings for ideas, then create an abstract painting of your own.

Create an imaginary landscape online with the NGAkids JUNGLE interactive. Mix and match the colorful characters, control the environment by changing weather and lighting conditions, or construct flowers, trees, and plants using special tools. An "AUTO" button generates random compositions, so you can sample program options and experiment with special effects as a starting point for your own designs. This Shockwave interactive is for all ages. Click the picture above to launch the program.

JUNGLE is inspired by the paintings of French artist Henri Rousseau. Visit My Jungle for some art and photography project ideas. The exhibition Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris closed on October 15, 2006, but you can still see highlights online.

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