Finger Friendly Art Sites

There’s nothing better than playing with an art program on an interactive whitboard and literally drawing with your finger. And there are some excellent, free, online drawing packages. Some are quite simple, and others really mimic real-world art materials.

Here are five online drawing applications that I really like;

Sketch
This is a new one that I only discovered today. The brush gives a really realistic effect and you can alter lots of different variables if you want – or just paint away!

As an aside – on this site you will also find a scarily realistic animated spider. It’s very impressive and rather scary if spiders are not your thing.

Crayola Digi-Colour
Choose from a variety of Crayola products including crayons, pencils and stamps. If you want to do something more off-line then there are colouring pages to print out as well. The Crayola site also has a lot of information for teachers including lesson plans here.

Bomomo
I wrote about this site a few weeks ago. It’s brilliant for making abstract drawings. Some of the pens are really fun.

Imagination Cubed
This has been around a while, but it’s still really fun. You can even collaborate with friends on a joint drawing.

NGAKids Brushter
This is a fantastic resource It includes more than forty brushes and customizable size, transparency, texture, and stroke options. A rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs help make BRUSHster a full-feature painting program. There are many other applications on the site too.

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