Creativity in the classroom and in life
We're still working on the different ways to represent the illusion of space, and in the 8th grade classes we have created this collage, drawing tubes striped, circular or square, with colored pencils. Applying shading to these objects we added the three-dimensional effect. We cut out the tubes, and then we glued them on black cardboard, so that seemed a bunch of piled tubes. I think it's very … [Read more...]
In the classes of the 7th Grade we are still working on the textures, but this time we are using oil pastels and discovering all the technical possibilities of these colors. After drawing a large tree with a black marker, we colored the four areas of the background with the colors of the four seasons. The oil pastels have been overlapped and blended to create nuanced color effects, and finally … [Read more...]
There are six easy ways to make our three-dimensional drawings and give the illusion of depth and space; through these six tips we could see through the history of art and discover how artists have developed increasingly more sophisticated systems to deceive the viewer's eyes and show non-existent spaces: 1. OVERLAP 2. SHADING 3. PLACEMENT 4. SIZE 5. VALUE and FOCUS 6. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE I … [Read more...]
With students of grade 8 we are still working on lights and shadows and gradations. We drew these Zentangles as ancient parchments rolled, using fantasy in the drawing of textures, and reality in the shadows of the parchments that seem real and three dimensional. … [Read more...]
To begin to understand the nature of light and shadow we have drawn with pencil the shades of a group of objects, a so-called "still life", with gradations. Some students of Year 8 have also experienced the shades with crossed lines (hatching), showing some skill! The background was decorated with felt-tip pens, with an abstract design where everyone has expressed freely his style. This contrast … [Read more...]
After looking at some abstract works of art, painted from the beginning of the twentieth century, we have tried the technique of oil pastels to create small abstract works. The artist who inspired us was mostly Wassily Kandinsky (have a look on Wikipedia), Russian painter and theorist of 1900. The students of Grade 9 have experienced as oil pastels can be mixed, overlapped and combined … [Read more...]
To continue our work about gradients, with the students of grade 8, we have created this drawing of entwined ribbons. The drawing is made in pencil, and the background is colored with felt-tip pens, to bring out the shades of the ribbons. In this exercise we wanted to make a three-dimensional sense of depth using the light and shade, drawing the shadows on each tape... Have we succeeded? … [Read more...]
The students of Year 6th have decorated with textures some drawing details of a bicycle. Everyone chose a detail and colored each area with colored felt-tip pens, inventing the most various graphic textures to fill the drawing. The designs were then reassembled to get the shape of the bicycle, in a composition of colors and shapes ... then, can we get a ride? … [Read more...]
In classes of 8th grade we started to practice with the shades and gradations in the drawings that will be used for the cover of our folders. You begin to draw a grid of 21 cm to the side and, in each square of 7x7cm, it draws two lines by hand, which can be curved, oblique, vertical, horizontal, wavy or straight. The important thing is that each square has being divided into three areas to be … [Read more...]
With pupils of the Year 7th we began to explore the world of graphic textures: how many signs, decorations, patterns can we invent with some felt-tip pen? We have created folders in cardboard where we will put our drawings throughout the school year and for the cover every pupil has designed 9 different textures placed in a grid, drawing everything freehand and using imagination. The instructions … [Read more...]
I’m an Italian art teacher and I'm glad to teach now in a Middle School of North Italy. This blog is a place to share, swap, and explore lessons, educational systems, techniques and creations in other art classrooms around the world. [...]
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