JumpStart Artist | 
| From: Vivendi Universal
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1446
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 95, Windows 98
Genre: Childrens Art and Creativity Software
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 98
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
Model: 4325
UPC: 738981043258
EAN: 0738981043258
ASIN: B00001XDUD
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
JumpStart Artist introduces children to the magical world of drawing, painting, puppets, collage, and more. With countless ways for children to express themselves artistically, they'll have all the fun they can imagine!
Amazon.com Review
Really good children's software is fun to play with, encourages exploration of the program, is forgiving, and teaches something. JumpStart Artist is all of those things, and more. As one might expect from JumpStart (a quality series if ever there was one), JumpStart Artist helps children become comfortable with their own creative skills, while at the same time teaching a little bit about art history and artistic styles. The CD-ROM revolves around a handful of activities, ranging from freeform painting to virtual puppet making to a matchmaking game that introduces historical pieces of classic art. At any point in the game, the animation is lively and helpful, and accompanied by a friendly soundtrack. Don't think that this isn't enough to do--there is plenty of material here for any little artist to explore. Our favorite feature of the program is the variety of artwork presented in the matchmaking game. Broken down into five categories, there are examples ranging from Seurat's Sunday in the Park to Tanner's The Banjo Lesson, and even Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can. The purpose here is teach kids that art comes in a variety of styles, and that not all art looks like Mona Lisa. Not only is each piece pictured, but there is a series of buttons on the side that describes the style of painting, how it was done, and other interesting details. Also, the name of each painting and the artist is pronounced audibly by the narrator, teaching children the proper pronunciation of such names as Matisse and Seurat. This is a fun and educational CD-ROM, with plenty of depth to keep the blossoming artist involved and interested. --Mike Caputo
Amazon.com Product Description
JumpStart Artist is designed to promote the awareness and practice of art among children. Its painting and drawing tools include watercolors, oils, tempera, spray paints, colored pencils, chalk, charcoal, and more. Its arts and crafts tools allow kids to make stamps, stickers, buttons, puppets, collages, quilting, and stitching. The animated movies feature brings to life the pictures children make. Four games teach art fundamentals in an interactive carnival setting.
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JumpStart + Everything You'll Need to Know About Art = Awesome! June 8, 2009
Hi, I'm StoryMaker. I've long been a fan of Knowledge Adventure's JumpStart products, and JumpStart Artist is no exception. In fact, it may just be the best JumpStart out there! It teaches basically anything a kid might need to know about art using JumpStart's signature games, songs, characters and reward system.
Enter Kisha Koala's art fair - an interactive, fun place where kids can be creative to their heart's content. There's only one problem - Kisha couldn't manage to complete her rides. In order to earn pieces to create the Texture Merry-Go-Round, Collage Fun-house, Line Roller Coaster, and Painting Ferris Wheel (OK, maybe that's not what it was called, but memory fails me), you must play 5 interactive games that teach all sorts of things about art. Eleanor Elephant's game will teach about creativity and art styles using a painting game filled with tons of fun features and tools, CJ Frog's game will teach about art from around the world using a simple but fun and creative adventure game, Frankie's game boosts creativity by letting you paint pictures that really animate for a movie, Casey Cat's game teaches about famous masterpieces and different aspects of art using a creative new way to do concentration, and Hopsalot's game lets you learn following directions for creating artwork.
Yes, there's a lot available in this one program. Better yet, all of this learning about art is fun and the songs are superb. By building the rides, you are rewarded with a fun music video that teaches about art. I love the tune to the texture song, and it's hard not to learn something from listening to these. My only slight quibble is that the collage one is rather weird...it says you can put "poodles and people" on collages. I suppose they probably mean pictures of them, but it was a little unclear. Plus, it shows Pierre Polar Bear (he doesn't have his own game in this product but makes numerous cameos) glued to the ceiling of a fun-house...huh?? However, the song is still (or maybe because of such) very funny.
Overall, this extremely fun game not only entertains to the max but teaches as well. So much about art is taught very, very painlessly, and it gives kids a chance to be creative. A winner for kids ages 4-8! Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!" P.S. I recommend other JumpStart products, such as JumpStart Explorers and their grade-based products.
5 year old loves this February 9, 2008
E. Duvivier (New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My five year old got this for christmas and she absolutely loves it. It's colorful and playful format keeps her engaged for quite a while. Even now, two months later, she still loves this program. She loves to draw and this program gives her another medium to create while teaching her various art related concepts. A great purchase for the little artist in your family.
Awesome Program! October 28, 2007
M. Vrieze
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great program! I was thinking it was going to be some cute little paint a scene or coloring book type deal. I checked it out and it has so much! It has mixing colors, textures, lines, games, collages, puppetry, sewing, etc! There is so much more than just coloring!
more that a kids software December 19, 2002
ihjaevasquez (Oregon)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of our favorite jump start programs. I was not sure who likes it the best: my eight year old, the five year old who has all ready build an amusement park.(you earn parts for this as you play), grandma(she bought this one), or me who was able to create my very own piture that as became my wall paper. This art program was bought for my five year old who is into scrapebooking with grandma. There are some sections that I find somewhat hard like the make a quilt. There are other sections that are for everyone in the house to do like make your own piture or Frankie's tent where you can make pitures that will go into a story/song/movie that is where most of our ride piece have come from. There is a tent that your child will learn about shapes and mixing paints. You also will learn difern kinds of art and even a mini game where you play with CJ and Edison. My age range 4 to 100.
Fun, entertaining, different October 7, 2002
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
My son really liked this artist program. We first rented it from the library, and then he liked it so well we bought it. This program is different from a lot of the other artist programs out there becaue it teaches art fundamentals (i.e. what is texture, introduces kids to the color wheel, asks kids to re-create a pictures that are already drawn by causing them to match patterns, introduces them to mixing colors, etc.) It has a movie area where the pre-drawn pictures you color come to life in a movie.It teaches foreign language. One of the movies is about a pinata, and it teaches the Spanish words for big and small. It is extremely enjoyable for preschoolers (age 4), yet it is complex enough that a young grade school child would not think it was too easy or too young for them.
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