Picasso Doves: print with craft foam
To express once again our desire for peace, we were inspired by the doves that Picasso loved to draw with a few simple strokes. We … Read more
Cubist Drawing with video tutorial
You need just a drawing paper, some colored pencils and watercolors to create this still life in the style of CUBISM. Cubism was a revolutionary new … Read more
Collaborative Chinese Dragon
To end with flourish the topic about China with the students of 6th Year at Cherry Garden Primary School we have made a great Chinese dragon … Read more
The magic of Gustav Klimt
With 9th Grade students, we made drawings inspired by the works of Gustav Klimt, the great Viennese artist who best interprets the style of Art … Read more
Painting inspired by Monet’s Waterlilies with video tutorial
To create this mixed media painting inspired by the famous Monet’s Waterlilies we need: a drawing sheet (24×33), a ruler, oil pastels, watercolors, a paintbrush, … Read more
Forms on watercolor background
Similar to a previous activity you can find here, we created this mixed media work, with shaded forms on a watercolor background. The bright colors … Read more
Random lines
With 6th Grade students we worked on the topic of the LINE drawing many types of interwoven lines: we traced the lines with the pencil … Read more
Depiction of a portrait: Matisse vs Kirchner
Observing the Expressionist artworks of the early 20th century, my students and I compared the French Expressionism of Matisse’s Fauvism with the German Expressionism of … Read more
Monsters in complementary colors
We invent monsters to work with COMPLEMENTARY colors. We draw and color four monsters with mixed technique, each monster must be colored with a pair … Read more
Video Tutorial: Cubism with pencils and coffee
You need just a drawing paper, some colored pencils and an espresso ( a very short coffee) to create this still life in the style … Read more
Create a Color Wheel with objects
Going on with online teaching and learning I suggested a challenge to my students who don’t have at home all the art supplies we usually … Read more
The Print Advertising
With 8th grade students, I did an interesting lesson about the print advertisement and its rules. The idea comes from my colleague Luigi Santibacci, an … Read more