Three ways to shade
Students in the grade7 (classe 2B) have tried three different types of shading with a pencil: 1) HATCHING: with different pressure of the pencil, 2) … Read more
Zentangle flowers with tempera-value background
an interesting composition! michele s. In the class 2B we have done this exercise in three steps: 1) first we drawn the flower with a … Read more
Writing in Sinhalese
Class 3E prepared this welcome’s billboard to greet the new mate Sunandi, who comes from Sri Lanka! Every student wrote his own name in Sinhalese writing, … Read more
Other folders grade 8
Students of class 3A and 3B finished their folders inspired to the masterpieces of abstract art, colored with oil pastels. Here some of these!
Inspired by the masterpieces of abstract art
Students of grade 8 are drawing their own folders with oil pastel on a black cardboard. These drawings are freely inpired by the works of … Read more
Folders for drawings – grade 7
This folder-project is for the sudents of grade 7, who are studying the value of shadows and lights, the shading applied to objects, and … Read more
Folders for drawings – grade 6
Every student made a folder to contain his drawings (in Italy is very difficult to find the useful sketchbooks that are used in UK!), and … Read more
I wonder what will appear…
Thoughtful hat This short exercise (the lenght of it is around 10 minutes) reveals so many peculiarity of the character and the disposition of every … Read more
How many pictures for a shape?
To begin with my pupils of Year7, I gave them just an empty circle and everyone filled the shape with different textures and pictures… how … Read more
Flags with lights and shadows
Another exercise to practice the right position of lights and shadows, with a sideward source of light. We used the same technique of our previous … Read more
Storybook characters on old book pages
The old book pages inspired me to draw storybook characters . You can suggest a subject or pupils can choose their favourite characters. My son … Read more
how to draw a figure
My son Paolo made this little video with iMovie. He did it all by himself and I thought it might be interesting to boys of … Read more