Cornell University
Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
Other
The Alphabet of Art: The Attributes
An informative site explaining the attributes of art as well as other art terms.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Texture
This site is a partial index for an art dictionary. Scroll down to texture. This gives a comparison between actual and simulated (visual) texture.
Crayola
Crayola All About Adjectives and Alliteration
This lesson plan (for learners age 4 and up) from the Crayola website, incorporates phonics, adjectives, and visual arts. Students make "Rubbings," with crayons while discovering adjectives that begin with the same letter. Provides...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Arts Connect Ed Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia: Line
An interactive site that explores the elements and principles of visual art through the artist's toolkit. This is from the artist's toolkit encyclopedia and includes information on types of lines, edge and outline, expressive line,...
Other
Guidance Communications: The Alphabet of Art
A site dedicated to providing vocabulary for the elements of visual design. Includes a visual notation system for describing both the elements and attributes of art.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Sweet Stuff
Art students will learn about visual balance, visual texture, and textural paint by following the example of Wayne Thiebaud, famous for his dreamy 1960s paintings of cakes.
California State University
Texture
A fun approach to introducing visual texture to primary pupils. This lesson plan reinforces the different between actual and visual texture in a tangible way.
Other
Graphic Greats: Photo Treatment
This resource presents an article about the use of photos in documents.