Modigliani style with oil pastels
Modigliani’s portraits are so characteristic that it is easy to copy them! Here is a simple technique with pencil, oil pastels and baby oil … Read more
Visiting Bath
The light and the sky were the protagonists this morning in Bath; I’m fascinated to compose square details with curved lines, horizontal or vertical shapes, … Read more
Circles of colored words
Inspired by Kandinsky circles, we paint some simple circles with watercolors using just the three primary colors, mixing them each other and painting very loosely … Read more
A Rainbow Umbrella!
With the Year 6-7 (Classi Prime) we continued our work on color theory, painting this “Rainbow Umbrella”. As in the color wheel we used acrylic … Read more
Lights and shadows sharp
With the students of grade 8 (classe seconda B) we worked on the lights and shadows in the photograph. With the tracing paper and colored … Read more
Inspired by Caspar David Friedrich
Giulia D. With students of grade9 (classi terze) we studied the Romantic Painters of 19th-Century, like Turner, Delacroix, Gericault and Friedrich. After the Romanticism lesson … Read more
OVO, Amazing Art Lessons online!!
Amazing website for our online classes: concise, precise, with stunning moving images … in a few minutes the contents that count … undoubtedly interesting for … Read more
Face proportions
Stelina K. Following the proportions in the figure below and my instructions on the blackboard, every student drew his own character! They didn’t copy a … Read more
Ideas to work on the warm and cool colours
I was thinking about new ideas to propose to the students to work on the warm and cool colors. We use acrylic paints especially to … Read more
Italian Autumn
The Autumn in Italy has always a warm light, you can feel the end of Summer in the scent of wet wood, in the chilly … Read more
The square color wheel!
Here a special color “wheel”, it is drawn freehand and colored with tempera colours on a square sheet. The students of year 6 colored their … Read more
Striped bottles and vases
michela l. Another exercise in light and shade for classes 2 (grade 7-8), made with colored pencils. When the bottles and jars are colorful, they are … Read more