A portrait by Picasso made with collage
In this exercise, one of the famous Cubist portraits painted by Picasso has been made with collage, using different kinds of paper (colored tissue paper, … Read more
Painting the Mona Lisa
In the painting competition of 3rd February 2013, organized by the Italian Cultural Center of Bristol, children between 6 and 11 years have ventured into the … Read more
Ancient map colored with coffe
This map is copied from an ancient Tudor’s map with a pencil and then it has been redrawn it with a black permanent marker . We … Read more
Portraits in Modern Art
The figure in the Avant-garde Art was represented in many different ways and with different techniques. Students chose some details of works of art and copied the figures, imitating style and technique of the artists. Matisse Cezanne Leger Degas Picasso Gauguin Depero Kirchner Nolde Segantini
Tempera landscapes
Here some landscape’s copies painting with acrylic paint by grade 8 students (seconda media).
Landscapes from Modern Art
Here are some copies of works of art, tempera paintings by students of grade 9 (classe terza). The the theme is the landscape in Modern Art.
The human figure: the right proportions
Often, if we ask our kids to draw a figure, it is built according to proportions intuitive, motivated by the idea of ”figure” that is … Read more
Pomegranates for a poster
A new competition is engaging the year 9 students that copy the image of the “pomegranate”. We have been asked to carry out the design … Read more
Little sketch in ink
Potete farlo anche voi in queste giornate di sole dove tutto invita a sedersi sull’erba e lasciare viaggiare lo sguardo e i pensieri: basta un … Read more
Copying natural textures
With the Grade 7 (11 year-old) we made small copies from life of the natural textures with colored pencils. In the second phase we have … Read more
Project Guembé: the colors of biodiversity
I report a site where the drawings were published in the previous academic year by some students of year 7 http://www.guembeproject.net/articolo.php?id=76 Within the project Guembé, … Read more
The still lifes by Giorgio Morandi
With pupils of year 8 we studied a great Italian painter of the 1900s, Giorgio Morandi, with his still lifes full of quiet solitude, and … Read more