I asked my students to observe the paintings that Claude Monet painted in series. We tried to grasp the differences of light, shade and color, among the Rouen Cathedral Series, or among the paintings in the series of Haystacks. Then I asked them to find these differences in the environment where they live, using photography. Three works of "Rouen Cathedral Series" by Claude Monet That's the … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial: Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards in 5 steps
October 22, 2015 by 3 Comments
Here we have the video tutorial: How to create Mixed Media Artist Trading Cards in 5 easy steps: 1. Collage: front and back of the card are covered with a magazine page with written. After, you add small pictures cut from magazines. On the back of the card you affix a label with name, age and origin. 2. Painting: on the collage, on the front of the card, you paint with various colors, in a … [Read more...]
Color theory: worksheets and video tutorial
February 27, 2015 by 14 Comments
You can find the color wheel and some aspects of color theory in two worksheets in English language, ready to be completed with crayons. This work is suitable for pupils of grade 6th or for primary school, for a first approach to color theory. The color wheel can be completed entirely using only the three primary colors, and the students can clearly understand the mixing of colors without using … [Read more...]
New section: A post for you!
February 13, 2015 by 4 Comments
Little square paintings, grade 5°, Sabrina Ubaldi, Trento Italy Every day I receive emails and comments from other teachers, students, parents and professionals in the field of art education, about new techniques and educational methods, new ideas for lessons and experiments. Some teacher sent me pictures of extraordinary creations made with class, even started from an idea taken from … [Read more...]
2014 Art Ed Blog of the Year: Vote Now!
January 22, 2015 by 2 Comments
Also this year arteascuola.com was selected among the best of Art Blog, from the website The The Art of Education. News of this year is the division into categories that separate finalist sites in this way: 1. Best Elementary Art Ed Blog 2. Best Secondary Art Ed Blog 3. Best Rising Star Art Ed Blog 4. Best Wild Card Blog Arteascuola is among the six finalists for the Best Secondary Art … [Read more...]
Pictures of a still life
January 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
After talking of "still life" in art, I asked students to 7th grade, to take a picture of inanimate objects, giving them some quick instructions on how to take the picture: - Taking pictures of one or more items placed on a plane surface, with one shot from side - Prepare a background horizontal and vertical of a uniform color with a sheet, a blanket, a pillow, a white wall, an empty table, a … [Read more...]
Pattern with radial drawings
November 23, 2014 by 12 Comments
In Architecture and Design, a Pattern is a decorative design, as for wallpapers, made up of elements in a regular arrangement. Using the drawings in radial symmetry, made in a previous lesson by 7th grade students, we created some amazing patterns with a program of photo collage (but it is also possible with a page of Power Point or Word). The results are astonishing! We had fun then playing with … [Read more...]
Photography: “home life”
October 30, 2014 by 2 Comments
After referring about the advent of photography and its influence on impressionist painting, the eighth-grade students have took photos of normal moments at home, following a few guidelines: - Images should have a unusual shot (from above, from below, oblique ...) - Images should have a original photographic cut (people "cut", details of individual body parts, people seen from behind ....) - … [Read more...]
Editing a photo in Andy Warhol’s style
August 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
As we have seen in previous posts dedicated to the program GIMP 2, there are many ways to draw up and edit a photograph. With students in Grade 9, we concluded the program of art history with the Pop Art of Andy Warhol. Inspired by this artist we changed the colors of a portrait in black and white. With the program GIMP 2, we have reduced the image in a limited gray scale, and then we colored the … [Read more...]
