The Christmas decorations are drawn with a three-dimensional effect using parallel lines. Through the combination of colored parallel lines in sequence we create an optical illusion of volume. In these drawings made by students of Grade 6th, we traced the outlines of simple Christmas decorations from a printed template. Every student chose five or six decorations and traced them on a drawing sheet … [Read more...]
Value Cubes
December 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment
After a lesson about Value as one of the Element of Art, we painted these cubes with 7th Grade students . We used a template to draw the cubes on a drawing paper, tracing them from the worksheet with three cubes, and repeating the drawing until all the paper was full of cubes. We didn't care about the slope of the cubes, so every painting has a different incline of the whole … [Read more...]
Animals in the style of Fortunato Depero
November 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
With students of Grade 7th we studied the Elements of art like Shape and Forms and, at the same time, we observed the works of Fortunato Depero, an important Artist representative of the Italian Futurism (1892-1960). His particular way to stylize and simplify the animals in simple geometrical shapes, inspired us to create these fantastic animals. First we took a cue from animals templates and … [Read more...]
3-D Geometric Paper Shapes with Patterns
October 30, 2018 by 1 Comment
After doing a lesson about Shapes and Forms as elements of art my colleague Francesca Dallago created these 3-D solids with Grade 7th students. They traced the lines on a white cardboard (220 gr/sq meter) and cut out the templates. Then they decorated the templates with black & white different patterns, one on every face of the solid. After that they folded and glue the paper to create the … [Read more...]
Best 25 Kids Art Bloggers: arteascuola is on the list!
September 27, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Best Kids Art Blogs from thousands of Artistic blogs for Kids by teachers on the web using search and social metrics. Have a look at the web sites list HERE. Arteascuola.com is among these websites that are actively working to educate, inspire, and empower their readers with frequent updates and high-quality information. These blogs are ranked based on following criteria: - Google … [Read more...]
Like tissues at the microscope: video tutorial
March 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I'm glad to show here below a great video tutorial from theartproject chad brown. Chad Brown is an art teacher who created this tutorial for his students, to explain this project in his class. He has made the video of the process and his students use it to make their pieces. This is a great idea and I look forward to watching other Chad's video. Have a look at he video and enjoy! In order … [Read more...]
Romanesque pop-up Cathedral
February 27, 2018 by Leave a Comment
A new and interesting idea from the art teacher Giovanni Perdicchia, who has already published on this website an activity about art works and photography. These Romanesque pop-up Cathedrals have been created by his 7th grade students. The schools involved are the Middle School of di Racale, and the Middle School of Alliste, in the province of Lecce, in Italy. After studying the Romanesque and … [Read more...]
Collaborative project: design a book cover
September 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
In collaboration with literature teachers we have worked on a multidisciplinary project. Students of 7th Grade worked in small groups to create and write a fantasy or crime short story, according to the criteria set by the literary genre analyzed. Once the stories and titles were created, the students realized the cover of their books, working in groups on the same image. First of all there … [Read more...]
Hall in one point perspective
June 8, 2017 by 4 Comments
To understand the rules of the one point perspective awe created this work in mixed media. It's a big hall, with a huge window overlooking a landscape, with some people looking out. With students of Grade 7th we studied both, one point and two points perspective, in order to complete our artistic path about the representation of space in art. First we drew the perspective, following the … [Read more...]
Marbles in Mixed Media
May 4, 2017 by 8 Comments
With students of 7th grade we worked on the realistic representation of space in art. In this mixed media work, we colored the marbles with oil pastels and the background with tempera or acrylic painting. First we painted the background with three shades of gray: the rectangular area was painted with pure black, for the lateral side we used a middle gray and a light gray for the base. In that … [Read more...]
