8th Grade students studied Van Gogh’s art works and his specific painting technique. We specifically examined The Starry Night, one of the most famous painting of Van Gogh. First every student … [Read more...]
Artist Trading Cards 2019: Souvenir from Trentino (ITALY)
January 20, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Here we are, ready for the 4th Annual Artist Trading Card Swap! This year for the Artist Trading Card Global Swap 2019 we thought about our beautiful region, Trentino Alto Adige, in the … [Read more...]
Symmetrical Robot
May 22, 2018 by 1 Comment
After the capitals and the insects we created the symmetrical robots, drawing the strangest and most immaginative robots. To realize this drawing we first drew half robot on half sheet of tracing … [Read more...]
Symmetrical Robot: 3 worksheets
May 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
After the capitals and the insects we created the symmetrical robots, drawing the strangest and most immaginative robots. To realize this drawing we first drew half robot on half sheet of tracing … [Read more...]
Asterisk* with three ways to shade
February 9, 2017 by Leave a Comment
As in this previous lesson, we practiced three different ways to create value and shade with pencil. In this drawing, made with 7th grade students, we used artist tape on a square drawing sheet. We … [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 … [Read more...]
Curls, springs, or twisted ribbons?
November 15, 2014 by 3 Comments
Another exercise on value realized in the 7th grade classes was this drawing of curled ribbons. The method is very simple and the realism of these metallic curls is achieved with shadows in pencil and … [Read more...]
Cool landscape
May 29, 2014 by 4 Comments
On a mixed media background I've found a frozen landscape... I enjoyed to draw little houses, bridges and windows, following the colors on the background. … [Read more...]
Mixed media portraits by Picasso
May 22, 2014 by 12 Comments
The style of Picasso portraits is unmistakable: the figures fall apart and are recomposed in his paintings, overturning all the canons and the proportions of the face in the style of Cubism. When … [Read more...]
