2014 Art Ed Blog of the Year: Vote Now!
Also this year arteascuola.com was selected among the best of Art Blog, from the website The The Art of Education. News of this year is the … Read more
Pictures of a still life
After talking of “still life” in art, I asked students to 7th grade, to take a picture of inanimate objects, giving them some quick instructions … Read more
Pattern with radial drawings
In Architecture and Design, a Pattern is a decorative design, as for wallpapers, made up of elements in a regular arrangement. Using the drawings in radial … Read more
Photography: “home life”
After referring about the advent of photography and its influence on impressionist painting, the eighth-grade students have took photos of normal moments at home, following … Read more
Editing a photo in Andy Warhol’s style
As we have seen in previous posts dedicated to the program GIMP 2, there are many ways to draw up and edit a photograph. With … Read more
Working on Britto’s works
Romero Britto is a BrazilianNeo-pop artist, painter, serigrapher, and sculptor. He combines elements of cubism, pop art and graffiti painting in his work. With the pupils of … Read more
Edit a landscape’s picture in Van Gogh style
Always with our open source program for creating and editing digital images called Gimp2 we edited a landscape’s picture in the style of Vincent Van … Read more
Gradations and silhouettes with Gimp
After the lesson of the landscape in gradation designed with the open source program Gimp2, we have developed a more elaborate landscape, using gradients of … Read more
Monoprints inspired by Cézanne still life
Students of Grade 9 have created these little monoprints inspired by Cézanne’s still lives, using transparent acetate sheets as a printing plate. First the acetate … Read more
Arte a Scuola is on Facebook!
ArteaScuola now has its own Facebook page where all posts will be published and you will be able to leave comments and likings. Open the … Read more
Landscapes in gradation with Gimp2
In classes of Grade 8th we are learning to use “Gimp”, an open source program for creating and editing digital images. This is a photo … Read more
Video Tutorial: The illusion of space
There are six easy ways to make our three-dimensional drawings and give the illusion of depth and space; through these six tips we could see … Read more