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
Color Wheel – Printable worksheet (in Italian language!)
Dopo aver cercato nel web un Cerchio Cromatico in italiano da stampare e far colorare ai ragazzi, ho deciso di disegnarmelo perchè proprio non sono … Read more
Zentangle hand on a value background
With students of Class 2A we did the same exercise of the previous post with Zentangle Flower, but we tried another subject: every students decorated … Read more
Three ways to shade
Students in the grade7 (classe 2B) have tried three different types of shading with a pencil: 1) HATCHING: with different pressure of the pencil, 2) … Read more
Silhouette on colorful gradation
Student of grade 9 (class 3B), learned to use acrylic colours, mixing them to get colour gradations. Then they painted a black silhouette on the … Read more