Creativity in the classroom and in life
In classes of Grade 8th we are learning to use "Gimp", a freeware 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...]
The art works of Romantic artists that we observed by studying the European Romanticism of the 1800s, suggested us images inspired by the paintings in the style "graffiti" of Sunil Pawar , where the figures are painted in black on a brightly colored abstract backgrounds. These paintings were created with the students of 9th grade with mixed media (figure in felt-tip pen black and grey on tracing … [Read more...]
We're still working on the different ways to represent the illusion of space, and in the 8th grade classes we have created this collage, drawing tubes striped, circular or square, with colored pencils. Applying shading to these objects we added the three-dimensional effect. We cut out the tubes, and then we glued them on black cardboard, so that seemed a bunch of piled tubes. I think it's very … [Read more...]
Among the topics studied in the literature of this period by the students of grade 9 there is the literary genre of science fiction. This suggested to us to invent our alien friend: we have drew the figure with colored pencils and felt tip pens on white paper inventing strange shapes of mouths, eyes and faces. The shape of the alien was then pasted on a background of black cardboard drawn with … [Read more...]
There are six easy ways to make our three-dimensional drawings and give the illusion of depth and space; through these six tips we could see through the history of art and discover how artists have developed increasingly more sophisticated systems to deceive the viewer's eyes and show non-existent spaces: 1. OVERLAP 2. SHADING 3. PLACEMENT 4. SIZE 5. VALUE and FOCUS 6. LINEAR PERSPECTIVE I … [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...]
With students of grade 8 we are still working on lights and shadows and gradations. We drew these Zentangles as ancient parchments rolled, using fantasy in the drawing of textures, and reality in the shadows of the parchments that seem real and three dimensional. … [Read more...]
The Romantic works of Friedrich lend themselves to an interpretation of the landscape that can be divided into a value scale. In these two exercises Friedrich's paintings were traced on tracing paper with a pencil and the drawing thus obtained was then traced on a white sheet. We started with acrylic paint starting from the lightest color and then we added more and more blue, to get the blue … [Read more...]
To begin to understand the nature of light and shadow we have drawn with pencil the shades of a group of objects, a so-called "still life", with gradations. Some students of Year 8 have also experienced the shades with crossed lines (hatching), showing some skill! The background was decorated with felt-tip pens, with an abstract design where everyone has expressed freely his style. This contrast … [Read more...]
After looking at some abstract works of art, painted from the beginning of the twentieth century, we have tried the technique of oil pastels to create small abstract works. The artist who inspired us was mostly Wassily Kandinsky (have a look on Wikipedia), Russian painter and theorist of 1900. The students of Grade 9 have experienced as oil pastels can be mixed, overlapped and combined … [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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