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A Brush With Wildlife

Carl Runguis, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Nov 22, 2001
Commentary by Stephen Downes

This is so cool and (in my mind) a brilliant use of web technology to illustrate some simple principles of art and design. Follow the art principle animations first to get the overall lesson. Then click into the next section, the composition studio and create your own artwork. The navigation is a wee bit tricky at this point: as you compose your painting in the right hand frame, click through the instructions in the left hand frame until it tells you to save and submit your work for criticism. I'm too impatient to wait for them to criticize my work, so here it is, titled Nature's Balance:
CRLF

I went through the entire process in about fifteen minutes. Perfect.

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