After understanding what a texture is, we considered how artists use the representation of surfaces to visually show the tactile sensation of an object. I challenged my students to find the textures … [Read more...]
6 “Sweets & Breakfast” Templates
In these printable worksheets from arteascuola.com, you can find six templates in pdf ready to be printed on cardboard or paper. You can decorate them with different kinds of patterns or zentangles … [Read more...]
Enhance the background
We have often dealt with the drawing of a FACE and its PROPORTIONS, working on the colors and shades of hair, eyes, and mouth. We can find this topic in previous lessons that we can find HERE. We can … [Read more...]
Cute or Scary monster?
This activity is inspired by this nice video "How to draw a Scary Cute monster (Folding Surprise)" ( For those of you who don't know I suggest this interesting YouTube channel Art for Kids Hub). … [Read more...]
3-D Geometric Paper Shapes with Patterns
After doing a lesson about Shapes and Forms as elements of art my colleague Francesca Dallago created these 3-D solids with Grade 7th students. They traced the lines on a white cardboard (220 gr/sq … [Read more...]
A suit for Ghali
Ghali is a young Italian rapper loved by my students. He usually wears colorful jackets, shirts and suits. We created a collection of suits for him while we were working on patterns. First we created … [Read more...]
Symmetrical Robot
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...]
Like tissues at the microscope: video tutorial
I'm glad to show here below a great video tutorial from theartproject chad brown. Chad Brown is an art teacher who created this tutorial for his students, to explain this project in his class. He has … [Read more...]
Painting different kinds of lines
The first element of art is the line, all ART starts with lines and we can create lots of images with simple lines! In this activity students learn how to paint a background with solid colors and how … [Read more...]