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Kronopedia This powerful timeline app allows students and teachers to visually navigate through art periods, dates and movements with ease.  Artists names are also arranged on a second timeline, with links to a beautifully presented selection of resources including images and...

As a teacher in a 1:1 classroom, I have learnt a few things about the iPad in the art room. 1. Apps don’t do the teaching or the learning. Good teachers cannot be replaced by good technology to enhance learning.  The old saying, ‘Teachers teach’ has never been...

The iPad provides us with endless possibilities for innovative teaching and profound potential for learning.  However, the iPad is such a poweful tool that introducing apps and workflows into units requires art teachers to see beyond what the iPad can do, beware of the ‘wow...

Is an iPad sitting on a pedestal art? New Yorker “While Americans hash out the moral ups and downs of having our electronics produced by Chinese factory hands, a young performance artist named Li Liao decided to jump into the middle of it. He got an assembly-line job making...

Click here to check out the sublime cityscapes and bustling American streets of Jorge Columbo’s iPad art world. Jorge uses his fingertips to create all his iPad paintings.

Corliss Blakely’s artwork here is reminiscent of the oils of Dutch still life and American classics.  There is a familiarity to the scenes but the media is a contemporary one.  These were created on the iPad and are an interesting twist on the tradition of still life...

“Let’s be open-minded, finger painting is no longer just child’s play. There are numerous online artists including some friends of mine who are designers love to use their iPhone and iPad to draw pictures.” Read more here.    

Take a look at the video created by New York Artist, David Kassan. Kassan has recorded the process of creating a portrait on the iPad using the Brushes application.  The iPad’s digital canvas comes alive over a three hour period as layer upon layer is applied digitally to...

Click on the image to visit Mike Licht’s gallery of work featuring technology and iconic modern objects juxtaposed with classic works of art.

So what makes the iPad such a valuable device in the hands of students?  Here are just a few diverse images to show you the power of the iPad to transform learning and enhance creativity in the art room.