Print and stencil decorations on cotton fabric
With pupils of 7th grade we decorated cotton fabric bags with colors for fabric. They cut some stencil from transparent acetate plastic sheets and painted … Read more
Big collage landscape
Every student painted 5 different texture with tempera colours: grass, rocks, sky,water and wood. We cut the sheets and composed two big mountain landscapes with … Read more
Comics page
Students of 9th grade, after the drawings with facial expressions, created a comics page. This is just a part of a story, to try out … Read more
Facial expressions
After the lesson about the face’s proportion, my students of 9th Grade have drawn facial expressions, copying from each other expressions or comic’s characters. I … Read more
Collage Matisse’s style
Inspired to Matisse’s collage, the students of 9th grade realized this collage starting from a magazine picture of any whole figure. This figure has been … Read more
Mexican sun
Inspired by the Mexican pottery this “sun” is made from a slab of clay leaned on an upturned plate, then cut and shaped. After preparing … Read more
Value exercise
I used simple cardboards, black and coloured, even sheets of coloured papers could be good. First, I drawn the scrolls on the coloured cardboards with … Read more
Puppets with dancing legs
With a photo of the face, a card and a rubber band you can make these easy and fun puppets, then you can decorate them … Read more
Photo contest “Barriers and limits”
Who is in the shop window? The way for water Two of my photographs have been selected for a photograph competition organized from an … Read more
The brushstrokes of Van Gogh
Here is a really valuable site for lovers of art and for art teachers: the paintings exhibited in major museums around the world as you … Read more
Free interpretation of a still life
With students of grade 8 we analyzed the still life in the paintings of modern art. Starting with a photographic image or real objects the … Read more