Creativity in the classroom and in life
In classes of Grade 8th we are learning to use "Gimp", an open source program for creating and editing digital images. This is a photo editing program free of charge and can be downloaded from the website www.gimp.org . The first images we created are small colorful landscapes with a range of tonal gradations: for being the first experiment is well done! … [Read more...]
Presenter is a simple online program for creating presentations or animated banners ... It is very interesting and easy to use, so much so that I took the opportunity to create the presentation of a book very dear to me (my sister is the author of this fantasy novel that unfortunately right now is only in Italian!). You can suggest to students to create an animated banner about themselves or … [Read more...]
The last work carried with the children of Cherry Garden Primary School in Bristol has been the realization of the scenery for the play of a modern Cinderella in love with a rock star. The two scenes had to represent a country road and the kitchen of Cinderella and were painted by the kids 11 years old with acrylics on fabric. Here we can see the phases of design, with the grid of the image, … [Read more...]
After a year in Bristol I'm going back to Italy. I have worked with pleasure at Cherry Garden Primary School and, as a goodbye gift, I have drawn the banners with the key words that recall the values taught daily in the school. In English schools there is a special education on the values, and every day children are reminded of the words that focus on human growth, on respect, on learning to … [Read more...]
I was fascinated by painting on wood that I have experienced on the previous body guitar Telecaster "Red Baron" in maple. I painted another body, this time of a Gibson Les Paul in mahogany, with a subject of my own invention titled "Journey". I know this is not a lesson to be proposed at school, but who knows if it can serve as a starting point for some creative project such as design and … [Read more...]
Here is the brochure for the show "The Love for Three pomegranates" The chosen design is to Christoph Thun which is very expressive for his personal mark, which has the unique footprint of '"handmade". Christoph Bravo! … [Read more...]
The work for the show "The Love for Three Pomegranates" is progressing in all the laboratories and classrooms; once again is a collective enterprise, and it is involving the whole school. Our contribution is to paint the costumes creating unique and original pieces, and decorate the sets that this time are not made by classical painted panels but ... the best thing is to come and see the show! We … [Read more...]
Ecco i disegni premiati nel concorso per la realizzazione del Logo per l’associazione “Terra di Mezzo”, che lavora nell’ambito della valorizzazione delle politiche giovanili e sostiene e incentiva le proposte dei giovani dell’Altopiano della Predaia, che raduna sei Comuni della Val di Non. Per informazioni ecco i link del sito e della pagina … [Read more...]
Con le classi 3A e 3B abbiamo partecipato al concorso per la creazione di un logo. Il nostro committente è il Piano Giovani di Zona - Altopiano della Predaia "Terra di Mezzo", un gruppo che si occupa di politiche giovanili in questa zona della Val di Non e che promuove le iniziative e le proposte dei giovani raggruppando sei diversi comuni. Dopo un incontro con i coordinatori del progetto che … [Read more...]
With pupils aged 11 and 12 who attend the workshop on Thursday we started to draw the first sketches for the realization of the mosaics. For now this is only the project, a "simulation" of the mosaic drawn with felt-tip pens: with the next few weeks, based on the designs that we have prepared, we will begin to break tiles in all colors. follow the phases of construction on the … [Read more...]
I’m an Italian art teacher and I'm glad to teach now in a Middle School of North Italy. This blog is a place to share, swap, and explore lessons, educational systems, techniques and creations in other art classrooms around the world. [...]
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