Create, Play & Explore 

Create your own coloring book and color it on-line! Bring your art to life using a palette of tools and effects when you draw, paint or make musical animations. Graphic artist tools you can experiment with include the usual art tools like brushes, paints, chalk, colored pencils and markers. But you can also try the sticker and stencils, spray can of colors, animated icons, and colored popcorn. Don't worry about getting started because many designed canvases are waiting for you. Using the Disney Magic Artist Studio software all ages can create, play and explore!

Create, Play and Explore enhances A Palette of Fun with Arts and Crafts, a 4-H CCS visual arts curriculum.

• Disney's Magic Artist Studio
  Bring your art to life using a palette of tools and effects when you draw, paint or make musical animations. The software allows you to use markers, chalk, crayons, paintbrush, pencil, whip cream, spray can and an image tube that can animate your artwork.

About software specifications

• Blue's Clues Blue's Art Time Activities
  Blue and her friends help you learn essential early learning skills including

* Logical thinking and problem solving
* Sequencing, matching and ordering
* Visual memory and discrimination
* Creative expression

About software specifications

• Elements and Principles of Design

• National Content Standards for Education in the Arts

• Artistic Stages of Children

Learning to learn - acquiring, evaluating, and using information; understanding the methods and skills for learning 

Problem solving - clearly identifying a problem and a plan of action for resolution of the problem

With Magic Artist Studio software you can explore 3-D technology and bring your characters to life through animation. Animation is the process of giving the illusion of movement or life to cinematographic drawings, models, or inanimate objects. Animated drawings pre-date the film cinema industry.

• Go to the Creation Area (blank screen with tool bar at the left) and try out the various tools.  Each tool has different style options such as a normal line style and 3-D Effects.   Tools to explore are the:  Pencil, Paintbrush, Marker, Spray Can, Shape Maker, Rubberband, Eraser, Image Spray, and the Paint Bucket.  As you master each of these tools and their special effects this will enable you to move to other areas easily.

•   Animation:  learn how to animate by clicking on the Chalkboard and taking the five step-by step lessons given there.  When that is completed go to the Doodlemorph Tool and create an animation! Click once on the chalkboard, use the chalk to draw, changing the tabs to the left as you draw.  Each tab will start the animation, press play arrow to restart if it stops.

•  Create a picture to put in your Gallery.  To do this start in the Creation area and change the tool bar on the left to a selection of pictures and characters. Chose your picture, your characters and simply drag them onto your screen.  You may want to color them in or leave them in black and white. You may want to go back to your tool bar and try out some of the features and special effects you learned about in activity one.  Save this picture to your gallery and go to view it.

1.      What happened when you tried out some of the tools?  What special 3-D effects did they have? 

2.      How did you learn how to use the tools?

3.      What difficulties, if any, did you encounter when using the tool bar?

4.      How do you create an animation?

5.      What animation did you create after practicing the lessons?  How did you do it?

6.      What kinds of tools or effects did you use with your picture?

1.      Create a series of masterpieces to put in your Gallery.

2.      Create a power point slide show and add animations to your pictures.

3.      Create an animated cartoon.

• What a Character!

• Create Your Own Comic Strip
• 3-D Cartoon Characters

• The Space Place, Technology Inspired Art