Nocturnal landscape
This romantic nocturnal landscape created by 7th grade students, has been painted with tempera paint with a final touch in watercolor. Despite the sophisticated final … Read more
Value Cubes
After a lesson about Value as one of the Element of Art, we painted these cubes with 7th Grade students . We used a template … Read more
Words in complementary colors
In order to better understand the complementary colors we created a drawing to paint with different shades of complementary colors. We chose a three-letters word … Read more
Paintings in scale of grays, inspired by B&W photos
This activity is an idea of the art teacher and friend Alessandra Tomasi. She is teaching at the Middle School of Fondo e Revò, in … Read more
Cats on the fence
Here we have an idea to try and use the primary colours and the neutral colours with tempera paint. First we draw the fence (high … Read more
Painting different kinds of lines
The first element of art is the line, all ART starts with lines and we can create lots of images with simple lines! In this … Read more
Funny Boots : painting textures
With tempera or acrylic painting we can create different patterns, using different kind of paintbrushes and colors. After painting the moka pots, the cups, the … Read more
The copy as instrument of knowledge
Since forever in the history of art, every artist is used to copying the other artists’ work, especially the work of the ancient masters. This … Read more
How to paint the color wheel: video tutorial
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. … Read more
The color wheel like a flower
Every school year we work on the color theory and the color wheel, and is quite difficult to find new and original ways to paint … Read more
Painting the background to create the figure
Is fascinating to understand the relationship between figure and background in a picture: did you know that our brain cannot perceive the figure and the … Read more
Textured flowers: collaborative project
Working on the textures we painted these flowers with the 6th grade students. We practiced lots of different textures, using tempera painting with different tools, … Read more