Here's another effective video tutorial from THEARTPROJECT of Chad Brown. In the video you can find all the steps and clear explanations about how to create these mixed media paintings inspired by the famous Starry Night of Van Gogh. Enjoy! … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial: Value Cubes Project
January 24, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Another great video tutorial inspired by an idea of arteascuola, realized by Chad Brown. Following the video you can paint these cubes in value scales. Every step is explained and shown in a very clear way and the final result is amazing. 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 … [Read more...]
Drawing inspired by Craig-Martin: video tutorial
March 16, 2018 by 3 Comments
A drawing inspired by the contemporary artist Michael Craig-Martin is created with the art supplies we usually use in our art room. In this drawing we can work on the topics of still-life, representation of space and composition. To create the drawing follow these steps: CHOOSE from eight to ten photocopies of ART SUPPLIES objects Trace the picture on your drawing sheet with a … [Read more...]
Like tissues at the microscope: video tutorial
March 6, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I'm glad to show here below a great video tutorial from theartproject chad brown. Chad Brown is an art teacher who created this tutorial for his students, to explain this project in his class. He has made the video of the process and his students use it to make their pieces. This is a great idea and I look forward to watching other Chad's video. Have a look at he video and enjoy! In order … [Read more...]
An experience of Active Art
May 25, 2017 by 5 Comments
This post is dedicated to the interesting work of the art teacher Giovanni Perdicchia and to his 9th grade students. The classes involved are the 3 B of Presicce-Acquarica Middle School and 3 C of Middle School Polo 2 Casarano, in Italy. You can contact Giovanni on Twitter Giovanni Perdicchia @gioart79 , or see his works of art here. The aim of the project is to mainly engage students in the … [Read more...]
How to paint the color wheel: video tutorial
February 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
A new video tutorial from arteascuola.com, about how to paint the color wheel using Primary colours and mixing them to get Secondary and Tertiary colors. I spent some time to suggest the way you arrange the primary colors on the palette: it's important to have enough paint and enough space in order to mix the colors properly. In this video I used Magenta Red, Primary Yellow and Blue Cyan, but it's … [Read more...]
Monochrome photos: a color hunt!
February 2, 2017 by 1 Comment
The word MONOCHROME describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or values of one color. A monochromatic object or image reflects colors in shades of limited colors or hues. For an image, the term monochrome is usually taken to mean the same as black and white or, more likely, grayscale, but may also be used to refer to other combinations containing only tones of a single … [Read more...]
Take a picture of one-point and two-points perspective
September 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment
How many times we look at a landscape in perfect one point perspective, without realizing it? After studying the geometrical rules of this spatial techniques, we realized that we are surrounded by images in one or two points perspective. This way to represent the space is not easy to understand, but with a camera can be easy to comprehend the rules of the perspective: you can identify the … [Read more...]
Futurist photographs
April 21, 2016 by 2 Comments
The Futurist artists argue that true Beauty Is in the dynamism of things because nothing is still, everything moves. After observing some Futurist paintings like those by Giacomo Balla and chronophotograph by Thomas Eakins, the eighth grade students have experienced the representation of forms in motion through photography. These shots were made with mobile phone trying to capture a … [Read more...]
A fantastic symmetric insect
January 16, 2016 by 6 Comments
Every day we see symmetrical shapes, that we can find both in nature and in the works of man. We were inspired by the insects' world, for invent an imaginary insect. After observing various types of insects and their parts, we invented our personal insect, assembling differents parts (wings, eyes, legs, horns, exoskeleton…) First we drew HALF insect on the LEFT side of the sheet. To draw the … [Read more...]
