Inspired by Monet: Water Lilies with Pastels
Monet’s Water Lilies with artist-grade soft pastels In this workshop, we explored the chromatic universe of Claude Monet, focusing on his famous Water Lilies series. … Read more
Black and White lines Landscape with Gold Sun
With the sixth-grade classes, we held a workshop on one of the fundamental elements of art: the line. Our goal was to transform a simple … Read more
Complementary color drawing inspired by Alighiero Boetti
ALIGHIERO BOETTI is an Italian artist active from the 60s to the 90s. His most famous works are the TAPESTRIES in which the artist has … Read more
The Dolomites: UNESCO World Heritage Site
In the field of Civic and Citizenship Education we talked about education in respect and valorization of Cultural Heritage and we saw how, in cultural … Read more
The Portrait in Modern Art: Small Copies
We have already experienced how useful it is to copy styles and techniques from artists, this time with the Year 7Th students we studied the … Read more
Giotto: “The Flight into Egypt” Poster
After studying Giotto and his works, especially those of the Scrovegni Chapel, we created a large collaborative POSTER, where each student tried to copy the … Read more
Pattern Castles
We created these mixed media drawings to experiment with various techniques: creating black and white patterns with different tools and painting the background with shaded … Read more
Illustrated poetry
With sixth grade students we did this interdisciplinary work in collaboration with the Italian teachers and with my art colleague Maria Noemi Demaio. First, the … Read more
Abstract drawings from microscope
Discussing ABSTRACTISM with 8th grade students we understood how there can be an abstract PAINTING but also an abstract SCULPTURE, or a PHOTOGRAPH that does … Read more
The still lifes of Felice Casorati: chiaroscuro copy
For this exercise on chiaroscuro we took inspiration from the still lifes of Felice Casorati (Italy 1883 – 1963). Casorati is one of the most … Read more
Woven ribbons: what makes us feel good?
With the seventh grade students we reflected on what makes us feel good at school and how we can improve our well-being at school by … Read more
Expressionist Portraits with Frame
To create these paintings we were inspired by the PORTRAITS of German Expressionism. We observed the portraits painted by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Karl … Read more