Since a while I've been following with admiration and esteem the work of Harold Hollingsworth a contemporary artist from Seattle, Washington. In the last works he embellished his paintings with floral patterns, a new consistency of the brushstroke and layers of oil and acrylic paint. He describes his work with these words: "On a simple level, I describe my work as abstraction, with cultural … [Read more...]
Piero della Francesca in the style of Barry McGee
May 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Inspired by a previous post dedicated to the artist Barry McGee, the art teacher Marcella Manco with her students of Arezzo Middle School "Piero della Francesca" , created these amazing works: they magically have brought together the contemporary artist Barry McGee with one of the most emblematic artist of Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca. The teacher explains: "to make further studies … [Read more...]
The color wheel in a big collage
March 6, 2018 by 1 Comment
This group work is simple but really effective. You can create a big color wheel with colored pieces of paper, ripped from magazines and old books. The whole class works to complete all the colors of this big color wheel, creating a poster to hang in the classroom. The big circle is divided in 12 slices. Every couple of students take a slice and choose a color of the color wheel. We need lots of … [Read more...]
Restore ancient Greek vases
September 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Before being a teacher I worked as a restorer in many Italian cities and I completed my restoration study at the National School of Restoration in Florence. A damaged work of art for a restorer, is like a sick patient for a doctor: how to heal a work of art? The world of the restoration is complex and fascinating: we can learn that the restoration and respect for the work of art are always … [Read more...]
Fashion design with Textures: worksheets and 5 activities
January 4, 2017 by 3 Comments
The drawings for these activities are inspired by Scott Nylund’s work, an american illustrator and fashion designer . I really like his clean and graceful style and I found it suitable for working on the textures. The templates should be printed on paper or white cardboard, and then you can cut out the model’s dress with a cutter. In that way you create an empty space that you can fill up in … [Read more...]
Paul Klee Collage: 5 worksheets
November 21, 2015 by 6 Comments
Five printable worksheets that reproduce some famous works by Paul Klee with one thing in common: all five paintings evoke the LANDSCAPES using the LINE as a fundamental element of the composition. In these paintings we see cities, strange forests, roads, rough water or clouds, drawn with a thin stretch. Buy now With these worksheets you can cut out and assemble parts of different pictures … [Read more...]
Mushrooms in imaginative textures
October 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment
As the previous Autumn, with the 6th grade classes, we have collaborated on a science project on knowledge of fungi. In science lessons pupils have studied the characteristics of mushrooms from scientific point of view, while in our art lesson we observed only the shape of mushrooms, to draw them in a realistic way. The decoration was then made freely. The outlines drawn have been filled in an … [Read more...]
Symmetrical Monsters
October 28, 2014 by 4 Comments
After the lesson on bilateral symmetry, we created these symmetrical monsters. With a piece of cardboard folded in half, scissors, glue, markers and a bit of imagination, each student have created his monster, and have decorated the silhouette with a black marker. The background was drawn with contour lines repeated around the figure. Each student, finally, gave a name to his monster, because … [Read more...]
Perspective in space!
June 5, 2014 by 26 Comments
By analyzing the various ways of representing space, we arrived to the study of perspective. In this collage, with students in the seventh grade, we first drawn a room in central perspective, following the geometrical rules of perspective construction. Then we designed a "space" landscape with colored pencils on a black sheet, to create the fantasy setting of our perspective. The image of the room … [Read more...]
Matisse on the cabinet!
May 8, 2014 by 2 Comments
What an idea! A large collage with adhesive paper to decorate the cabinets of art room! Which artist, if not Matisse, can give us the inspiration to brighten up our classroom? … [Read more...]
