World Art Day

Today is World Art Day, chosen to honour the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci. We have a range of fantastic resources within Purple Mash to help celebrate art in your school.

2Paint

2Paint is a straightforward paint tool that allows even the youngest children to choose simple, 'real-world' drawing tools to use on-screen and progress to more advanced tools such as Flood Fill or Shape tools.

Features include:

• Change colours and thickness of pens
• Use different effects such as sparkle, cloud or zig-zag effects
• Flood fill: fill an area with one colour
• Shape tools
• Draw lines
• Symmetry: this creates a line of symmetry down the centre of the page, and any drawing will be reflected in this line
• Add a background

You can also find many Paint Projects, which have topic-themed textured pens - for example, sweet and chocolate texture pens in our Hansel and Gretel paint project.

2Paint a Picture

2Paint a Picture is a drawing tool which helps children create various painting effects and combine these effects to make pictures.

Features include:

• Use different paint types (acrylic, poster paint, wet paint, ink)
• Try different techniques (pointillism, splash, mosaic, collage, impressionism)
• Moveable outlines to draw people or buildings, including perspective lines
• More colour choice, showing how colours are created by mixing colours
• 'Water down' your paint
• Change brush size

Famous Artists

If part of your Art topic focuses on a famous artist, check out our factfile templates. Each template has background information on each artist, to help your class with their research. Including some of the following artists:

• Claude Monet
• L.S. Lowry
• Frida Kahlo
• Georgia O' Keefe

There are also blank templates that children can use to research their favourite artist.

We hope you enjoy getting creative this World Art Day.