In order to understand the light and shadow on a solid, we drew the shades on a group of objects with a pencil. In this still life some students of 8° grade have also experienced shading with crossed … [Read more...]
Instant photo: drawing small landscapes
October 24, 2020 by 4 Comments
These small landscapes are created in the common style of social network or instant photo. The square format is suitable to draw nice landscape with few colored pencils creating depht and space. … [Read more...]
Depiction of a portrait: Matisse vs Kirchner
September 7, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Observing the Expressionist artworks of the early 20th century, my students and I compared the French Expressionism of Matisse's Fauvism with the German Expressionism of Kirchner. We looked for … [Read more...]
Abstractionism with Google Drawing
September 2, 2020 by 2 Comments
After observing some famous abstract paintings, students created some digital images with Google Drawing. They started from the background, putting in the frame some shapes, then they have overlapped … [Read more...]
Final exams 2020
June 25, 2020 by 1 Comment
In this unusual year, with the schools closed for Covid-19, with distance learning, with the desire to feel close despite the obligation of the lockdown, with everything we missed from school, we … [Read more...]
Create a Poster for a Surrealist Exhibition
May 18, 2020 by Leave a Comment
I apologize if the activity is in Italian, but you can still guess what this activity consists of. My 8th-grade students created a poster for a surrealist exhibition, working remotely in groups of … [Read more...]
Shading Forms
February 25, 2020 by 2 Comments
How can you shade different forms and solids with different kinds of surfaces? We observed that the strength of the shadow’s edges are determined by the object you are drawing. Something with sharp … [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...]
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...]
Video tutorial: Nocturnal Landscape
April 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Here below an useful video tutorial created by Chad Brown for his YouTube channel theartproject.com . I invite you to visit it and watch this and the other interesting art projects he proposes in his … [Read more...]
