We invent monsters to work with COMPLEMENTARY colors. We draw and color four monsters with mixed technique, each monster must be colored with a pair of complementary colors: red-green, blue-orange, … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial: Cubism with pencils and coffee
April 8, 2020 by Leave a Comment
You need just a drawing paper, some colored pencils and an espresso ( a very short coffee) to create this still life in the style of CUBISM. Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing … [Read more...]
Create a Color Wheel with objects
March 30, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Going on with online teaching and learning I suggested a challenge to my students who don't have at home all the art supplies we usually have at school. I did an online lesson about the color wheel … [Read more...]
The Print Advertising
February 10, 2020 by Leave a Comment
With 8th grade students, I did an interesting lesson about the print advertisement and its rules. The idea comes from my colleague Luigi Santibacci, an extraordinary art teacher and designer with whom … [Read more...]
Intertwined ribbons on abstract watercolor
December 9, 2019 by Leave a Comment
With 7th Grade students, we faced a difficult task that has been more challenging than expected. The topic is intertwined ribbons, they were drawn with the same shading technique you can find in this … [Read more...]
Final Exams 2019
November 6, 2019 by Leave a Comment
I post just now my students' works which were created for the final exams of the previous school year. I hope these works will be an inspiration for the students who are attending their last year of … [Read more...]
Mosaics 2019
October 29, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Here are the latest creations of the 2018-19 mosaic course. The course involved some 7th grade students . The process is very complex and requires a lot of patience and care. First we prepared a … [Read more...]
Scenography for the play “Marcovaldo”
October 21, 2019 by Leave a Comment
With a small number of students, we realized a scenography for a real stage show. It was a challenge to deal with a real task: we had to juggle the time schedule, budget, space, delivery date and … [Read more...]
Identikit from a description
September 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This is an interesting activity suggested by the art teacher Carlo Vedova and the name of this inter-disciplinary project is "One, Many, No Me". He doesn't work in my school, but in a school far away … [Read more...]
The Starry Night in a big mosaic
May 19, 2019 by Leave a Comment
With some 7th Grade students who attend the afternoon workshop we made this huge mosaic inspired by the famous Starry Night painted by van Gogh in 1889. This mosaic is made by tiles and colored glass … [Read more...]
