Paintings, stained glass, prints, drawings, mosaic, collage, plastic and wood sculptures, mixed media projects... This year for the final exams students of the 8th Grade created different kind of work. Everyone described and justified the work, explaining the techniques and the procedure and the motivations of their work of art. Here we have the works presented during the final exams: … [Read more...]
Double figures created with silhouettes
February 15, 2017 by 1 Comment
After reasoning about positive and negative space in the 7th grade classes, we designed a double figure, working on the relationship between couple of silhouettes. We observed the amazing images of Noma Bar, the great contemporary graphic designer, who creates figurative plays between the figure and its background. The task was to create a picture with two silhouettes logically … [Read more...]
Flowers printed with Craft foam
January 17, 2017 by 12 Comments
We have already worked with this interesting material that can be etched, cut, shaped, glued, colored and printed. We used the craft foam sheets especially for printing, because it's cheap, it's suitable to be engraved, inked and printed in easy, simple steps. This time with Grade 6th students, we created some printing plates in flower shapes, inspired by works of the great illustrator and artist … [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...]
Meeting with the artist: Albino Rossi
November 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Having a meeting with an artist is always a special experience: we are used to appreciating the works of art, but a meeting with an artist makes us able to read his creations in a different way, with more affection and depth. This October we visited a beautiful exhibition at the Casa dei Gentili di Sanzeno (Trento) . The exhibit showed the whole artistic activity of ALBINO ROSSI, an Italian artist … [Read more...]
ART graffiti style
October 6, 2016 by 3 Comments
We started our activity in the Grade 8th classes with these writings in graffiti style. Every student wrote the word ART, taking inspiration from this previous lesson. Following one of the many tutorials we can find online, students drew the letters in accordance with the instructions we can see below. We 've found this interesting example on the helpful website GraffitiDiplomacy.com. In addition … [Read more...]
Final exam 2016
June 28, 2016 by 8 Comments
Even this year I asked my students to create a personal work, inspired by the artists we've studied in our lessons. In the final exam is important to describe and justify the work, explaining the techniques and the procedure and the motivations of their work of art. Here we have the works presented during the final exams: they was connected to a history of art topic, and every student explained … [Read more...]
Landscapes with textures inspired by Karla Gerard
June 7, 2016 by 6 Comments
When I discovered the work of Karla Gerard I thought at once of my students and how much they would have loved this amazing artist. I showed a lot of works of Karla Gerard to my students, and they have been inspired by her shapes, her colors, her villages, her trees and textures. We used a graffito technique that you can also find in this previous post about colored Hippie Vans. We colored the … [Read more...]
Street Art Puppets
March 10, 2016 by 8 Comments
In a beautiful workshop about Street Art, made with the third class at the MART museum in Rovereto (Trento, Italy) we drew these drawings, imagining that we are street artists with large spaces available to be decorated. We worked with the professionists of EDUCATION AREA of Mart, with its section dedicated to the art teaching. They have proposed us a path through the elaboration of a "TAG", a … [Read more...]
Design a chair: worksheet
February 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment
With this simple worksheet from arteascuola.com, we can experiment the meaning of the design: change the shape of an object while maintaining its function. Every student can draw his own chair, in his personal style with unique and original features. Every student can express his own personality in it! You can buy the worksheet with a faint silhouette of a stylized chair here below: Buy now … [Read more...]
