Antique houses on old pages
Old pages and a black ink pen is all that we need for draw. The houses are from different countries, the style and the features … Read more
Still life with oil pastels
A simple exercise to learn lights, shadow and colour shades. You draw some shapes like bottles, spheres, cups, cylinders and then you colour them with … Read more
Inspired by Rothko
I love Rothko, I try to teach who he is and what he has done. The easiest way is to copy his works of art, his colour’s fields and compositions. With soft pastels start creating fields of colour on white, black or … Read more
Working with complementary colors
A simple exercise inspired by the shapes of Matisse to learn about complementary colors. Prepare a 5x5cm grid and then you draw freeform shapes, coloring with alternating complementary colors.
Comics page
Students of 9th grade, after the drawings with facial expressions, created a comics page. This is just a part of a story, to try out … Read more
Facial expressions
After the lesson about the face’s proportion, my students of 9th Grade have drawn facial expressions, copying from each other expressions or comic’s characters. I … Read more
Value exercise
I used simple cardboards, black and coloured, even sheets of coloured papers could be good. First, I drawn the scrolls on the coloured cardboards with … Read more
Proportion of the face and value
The faces were drawn in pencil on a grid, following certain proportions. The second step was to add lights and shadows to the drawings, to … Read more
The human figure: the right proportions
Often, if we ask our kids to draw a figure, it is built according to proportions intuitive, motivated by the idea of ”figure” that is … Read more
Pomegranates for a poster
A new competition is engaging the year 9 students that copy the image of the “pomegranate”. We have been asked to carry out the design … Read more
Little sketch in ink
Potete farlo anche voi in queste giornate di sole dove tutto invita a sedersi sull’erba e lasciare viaggiare lo sguardo e i pensieri: basta un … Read more