Fine Arts Grades 7-9

More than a 1000 fonts that students can freely use in their art projects

Blender is free and open source software, forever. Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.

There are many different options on how to create your piece of digital art. Learn to use each tool and see what you can create.

Create designs for social media, posters, graphs, presentations, or flyers. Choose from the many layouts, stock photographs and illustrations.

A wonderful web site that explains how colour works in many different situations we encounter in everyday life.

A free tool for artists to work out colour palette choices.

Hundreds of free fonts that can be used in art and design projects

In this lesson that combines coding and snowflakes, students consider how and why humans collaborate with computers to make art. Students use algorithm components to create a 3D model of a snowflake from code.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Learn how to merge elements from multiple sources into one image using this playlist of tutorial about GIMP

A playlist of 12 short videos that will teach you the basics of editing images with GIMP

Inkscape is free professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows desktop computers.

Kleki is an online art tool for painting / sketching / drawing / doodling and editing.

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

Search for icons that can be downloaded and used in student and teacher creations. There is also the ability to create and share your own unique icons.

This paint tool lets you choose or create a picture, colour it, use stickers, stamps and more.

Create beautiful photos, logos, social media graphics, and facebook covers with PicMonkey's easy yet powerful photo editing and graphic design software. Free trial access.

The Polona Typo project makes it possible to type, share and print your own sentences using thousands of letters from historic books, posters and maps created over more than six centuries.

This easy-to-use website generates prompts to help inspire budding artists. Ideas range from a single word (e.g., gold, electric) to elaborate scenarios (e.g., Create a piece in a Caravaggistic style. Using pale yellow colors, evoke a sense of appreciation and place the subject in Capri).

This amazing 3D digital sculpting web app that functions through your browser or as a free downloadable program. This full-fledged, powerful software supports 10 languages, file import and export, and allows users to immediately start sculpting, with no account required.

This online tool (in html 5) is a full suite of painting and drawing tools. Upload an image to use as a base or start freehand. Add layers, stamps and many other cool features to your art.

This interactive from the Tate Art Gallery gives you a chance to play around and create some street art.

This is an online painting and image editing tool.

This is a free and simple app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

Great for kids preK-6, this site’s art section includes a variety of simple art creation tools, including Spiral Art, Animation Station, Cube 3D block play, and many others.

Vector is a simple yet powerful (and free) graphics editor that allows you to design and edit vector graphics online, without a steep learning curve.

Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge search engine (which sounds oh, so very boring) but what it can do for Art & Design will blow your socks off! Take a look!

WordArt.com is an online word cloud art creator that enables you to create amazing and unique word cloud art with ease.

This is a free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator that works on PC, Tablet or smartphone. Paste text, upload a document or open an URL to automatically generate a word- or tag cloud. Customize your cloud with shapes, themes, colors and fonts

Find creative ways to express your ideas. Word Clouds For Kids makes it very easy for students to print or save their results. There is a slider to adjust the number of words used and the results can be edited for color, font, layout, etc.

A site that guides students through developing their skills at drawing Zentangles, a popular art form, known for also being a meditative relaxation technique.

This free online tool that allows you to create and breed unique images using AI-powered generative networks. You can start with an existing image or generate a new one from scratch, and then manipulate various parameters to create your own unique artworks.

Canva now has Artificial Intelligence build into the platform. Teachers can ask it to create a presentation on a topic. The resulting presentation will likely need editing but it will save you time!

Using this web-based platform, users can upload images to learn how AI art generators understand images. The platform will create a text-based prompt that students can analyze to understand how to create good prompts for AI art generators.

When demand is high on the Stable Diffusion platform, Craiyon is a free alternative to not be waiting on a virtual queue

A free-to-try AI art generator. Free images take 1-5 minutes to generate. Limit of 5 free images per day

A free online tool that allows you to create original artwork using an AI-powered system. It offers several styles and options to choose from, and you can download your finished artwork as a PNG or SVG file.

A very easy to use art-generation tool that takes your crude sketch and turns it into refined images. After sketching, students will need to enter a few descriptive words for the AI and then an image will generate.

Stable Diffusion XL is a FREE latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images given any text input. Note, you will have to wait in a cue for your content to generate.

Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

DaVinci (tm) is a very powerful image editor, photo downloader and organizer. It has a free version available to download at this site.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

A playlist of 14 medium length videos that teaches you how to do amazing photo effects in GIMP.

Photopea is an advanced image editor, which can work with both raster and vector graphics. You can use it for simple tasks, such as resizing images, as well as complex tasks, such as designing webpages, creating illustrations, processing photographs and more.

This website will teach you how to use Photopea step by step. We will start with basic tasks and gradually progress to more complex features.

RawTherapee is a powerful, cross-platform raw photo processing system, released as Free Software (GPLv3). It is designed for developing raw files from a broad range of digital cameras and targeted at users ranging from enthusiast newcomers who wish to broaden their understanding of how digital imaging works to professional photographers.