In this mixed media painting we used oil pastels and watercolors in order to learn the ranges of warm and cool colors. With students of Grade 6th we created these trees to recognize and use this kind of colors. First we draw the tree and the fields with a pencil. Second we decide which part will be in warm and which in cool colors and trace all the lines with oil pastels (eg: we trace the tree … [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...]
Landscape and emotions
November 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Is it possible that a landscape can trigger our emotions? Facing a real landscape, photographed or painted, we can experience different moods that inspire our deeper feelings. Romantic painters such as Friedrich and Turner, who exploit the emotional potential of the landscape, make it the true protagonist of their works. Their landscapes always send a strong and intense emotion and we tryed to … [Read more...]
Final Exams 2017
June 26, 2017 by 2 Comments
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...]
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...]
Village in warm & cool colors
June 1, 2017 by 3 Comments
The view of a small village, with houses lumped together, is a nice way to learn and create warm & cool colors. Half of the village is surrounded by the cool colors of the night, and the other half is enlightened by the warm colors of a sunny day. We created this paintings with students of 6th Grade and we were inspired by the illustrations of Jessica Hogarth. Observing her beautiful … [Read more...]
Printing Expressionist Houses
May 17, 2017 by 5 Comments
At the beginning of Twentieth Century the art movements of Expressionists in Germany and Fauves in France bring an important news in the field of Modern art: the vision of reality is filtered by the artists' inner reality. Before them Van Gogh and Munch have taught the same lesson because in their paintings the world is transformed and distorted by the artist's feeling and mood. 8th Grade students … [Read more...]
The copy as instrument of knowledge
February 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Since forever in the history of art, every artist is used to copying the other artists’ work, especially the work of the ancient masters. This practice teaches to us a lot of things about the techniques, the use of colours and the personal style of the master. Therefore, to copy corresponds to learn, according to the effective idea of “learning by doing”. Even today, in the age of the … [Read more...]
Mountains made up of lines
December 20, 2016 by 13 Comments
Lines can depict any shape; they can create tridimensional effects and give the perception of movement. I did this drawing with 6th grade students, in order to create a mountain landscape using just lines. Putting lines near each other, you can create the perception of threedimensional volume and our eyes see undulations, protuberances and hillside indentations. We started the drawing with the … [Read more...]
Artist Trading Card Global Swap 2016 from Italy
December 7, 2016 by 2 Comments
With great pleasure I publish here the Artist Trading Cards, created by ten Italian Schools which took part with me in the project Artist Trading Card Global Swap 2016. Our cards have already arrived to Minnesota, where Nic Hahn and her staff are dividing them, in order to ship them in other 100 Schools around the world. We are looking forward to receive the new cards from the Schools that took … [Read more...]
