Creativity / Expression
Mosaic (Win) from Green Forest Studio is a visually rich and easy drawing program, creating mosaics with bricks, marbles, glass, etc.
Ginko Paint (Win) from Green Forest Studio is a nice digital coloring book.
Create a Sculpture (online) is an interactive art activity where students create their own sculptures.
Sketch Studio (Win) from Drawing Hand is a cool drawing instruction program. The free Sketch & Smudge ScreenSaver will display your created artworks.
EZDraw (Mac X) from EasyDraw a full featured drawing program.
FlySketch (Mac X) from FlyingMeat is an unusual screen capture program that includes transparent "sheets" you can use to trace what is on the screen.
Paint By Numbers/Silhouettes (Win) from Pegmaris are two programs that take pictures and alter them. Paint By Numbers will take a picture and create a "paint by numbers" version that can be printed out and then painted. Silhouettes takes pictures and creates silhouettes.
Wizard Brush & PhotoPainter & Photogather (Win) from EUSoftware provide a variety of artistic features. Wizard Brush is a "natural media" paint program. PhotoPainter takes pictures and creates painted versions. Photogather is a virtual photo album program that includes imaged editing tools and presentation tools.
Cosmic Blob 3D Win & Cosmic Blob 3D MacX from CosmicBlobs is a user friendly 3D modeling program. Check out the Cosmic Blob Widget for MacX.
Picasa (Win) from Google is a free image editing program.
Deep Paint (Win) from RightHemisphere is a free program that takes pictures and applies natural paint effects.
Super Duper Music Looper (Win) from Sony is a kid friendly, inexpensive loop music creation program. Trial version.
Garage Band (MacX) from Apple is a great loop, audio, and MIDI music creation program that is included on all new Macs.
ACID (Win) from Sony is a full featured loop, audio, and MIDI music creation program. It comes in several versions, the highest version supports creating music in surround sound. You can download trial versions from the website.
