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 that is Trentino Alto Adige, in the North of Italy. We like to share with hundreds of other students around the world our Nature and Culture, our typical Food, our Traditions and Sports. Our typical landscapes are surrounded by mountains, and … [Read more...]
15 Christmas Templates
December 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
15 different silhouettes of Christmas decorations in 3 printable pdf worksheets. You can decorate the templates in different ways, with colored patterns, zentangle, or use them as decorations for the Christmas tree. Buy now Here below an example of how you can use the templates in an exercise about lines. … [Read more...]
Christmas decorations with lines
December 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Christmas decorations are drawn with a three-dimensional effect using parallel lines. Through the combination of colored parallel lines in sequence we create an optical illusion of volume. In these drawings made by students of Grade 6th, we traced the outlines of simple Christmas decorations from a printed template. Every student chose five or six decorations and traced them on a drawing sheet … [Read more...]
Value Cubes
December 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment
After a lesson about Value as one of the Element of Art, we painted these cubes with 7th Grade students . We used a template to draw the cubes on a drawing paper, tracing them from the worksheet with three cubes, and repeating the drawing until all the paper was full of cubes. We didn't care about the slope of the cubes, so every painting has a different incline of the whole … [Read more...]
Mixed Media Landscape
November 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Working in pairs students Students of Grade 6th created these mixed media landscape. First we measure the drawing paper with a ruler and draw 6 columns, 5 column are 6 cm wide and the last one is just 3 cm wide. Second, we paint the drawing paper with watercolors, painting every stripe with a different range of colors: - Light green for the grass, - Dark green for the hill, - Grey for the … [Read more...]
Animals in the style of Fortunato Depero
November 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
With students of Grade 7th we studied the Elements of art like Shape and Forms and, at the same time, we observed the works of Fortunato Depero, an important Artist representative of the Italian Futurism (1892-1960). His particular way to stylize and simplify the animals in simple geometrical shapes, inspired us to create these fantastic animals. First we took a cue from animals templates and … [Read more...]
3-D Geometric Paper Shapes with Patterns
October 30, 2018 by 1 Comment
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 meter) and cut out the templates. Then they decorated the templates with black & white different patterns, one on every face of the solid. After that they folded and glue the paper to create the … [Read more...]
New works inspired by Harold Hollingsworth
October 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Since a while I've been following with admiration and esteem the work of Harold Hollingsworth a contemporary artist from Seattle, Washington. In the last works he embellished his paintings with floral patterns, a new consistency of the brushstroke and layers of oil and acrylic paint. He describes his work with these words: "On a simple level, I describe my work as abstraction, with cultural … [Read more...]
Best 25 Kids Art Bloggers: arteascuola is on the list!
September 27, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Best Kids Art Blogs from thousands of Artistic blogs for Kids by teachers on the web using search and social metrics. Have a look at the web sites list HERE. Arteascuola.com is among these websites that are actively working to educate, inspire, and empower their readers with frequent updates and high-quality information. These blogs are ranked based on following criteria: - Google … [Read more...]
