These are slabs of white clay, we added texture with doilies, pressing them on the clay slab, then we put the slab in a small dish to give it the curved shape (it’s possible also to dry it with a hairdryer). When it is dry you have to fire them in the kiln and then you can paint the doilies impression with colour for ceramic (these are coloured clay called Engobe, we paint the ceramic after the … [Read more...]
Sentences in complementary colors
April 5, 2011 by 3 Comments
We have created a painting inspired by the works of Paul Klee and Alighiero Boetti using letters of the alphabet as a pretext to create forms and spaces to be colored. I explained that the sentence choice does not have to be recognizable: it is not a "slogan" advertising that needs to be readable, but a mere pretext to create a grid of straight lines, oblique, curved, horizontal or vertical, to be … [Read more...]
Animal sculptures in ceramic
April 1, 2011 by 1 Comment
Work has been progressing in the ceramics workshop. Here are some ceramic animals, colored and glazed, straight from the oven! … [Read more...]
Prints inspired by the Matisse’s drawings
March 28, 2011 by 1 Comment
The graphic work of Matisse, the highest representative of the "Fauve" French, offers a variety of beautiful designs made with very few stylized lines, to which we were inspired to run these small prints. With the students of Year 9 we have been inspired by these designs to engrave a rubbery material called "rubber crepla" and realize the printing plates. The softness of these sheets of rubber … [Read more...]
Silhouette in backlight
March 26, 2011 by 3 Comments
With students of year 8 we painted with tempera, using only the primary colors and mixing them in order to obtain a chromatic gradation. In the next step we painted a black shape over the colored background, to achieve a suggestive silhouette that stands out against the light. … [Read more...]
Sculpture of animals: first step
March 16, 2011 by 1 Comment
The pottery workshop continues with the construction of large and small animals. For now we are only at the first stage, the forms of raw clay, which are hollow inside, are drying waiting for the cooking, after which they will be decorated with colors engobe, and glazed for the second firing. Follow the processing steps on the blog! daniel … [Read more...]
“Expressionist” portraits
March 12, 2011 by 2 Comments
After studying the art of the Expressionists with the Year 9 we drew our pictures changing radically the colors and features ... we understood that is not important to recognize through the verisimilitude but EXPRESS themselves! … [Read more...]
Stained glass of tissue paper
February 23, 2011 by 7 Comments
After observing the Gothic stained glass with the students of '8th grade we made the "stained glass windows" of tissue paper. We started the elaboration of a photograph with the image of a flower. The shape and the colors were freely stylized and interpreted to reach the design of our window. After the execution of the model we have realized the structure, cutting out the black cardboard and … [Read more...]
Concorso logo “Terra di Mezzo”: ecco i vincitori
February 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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...]
The strength of colors: we interpret Van Gogh and Gauguin
February 11, 2011 by 3 Comments
These two extraordinary artists have made us realize how powerful can be the colors, such feelings can tell, what emotions can be expressed. With students of year 9 we studied the artists of the Post-Impressionism, and then we redesigned some of the works of Van Gogh and Gauguin with felt-tip pens and crayons. mirco valentina elisa … [Read more...]
