Inspired by Caspar David Friedrich
Giulia D. With students of grade9 (classi terze) we studied the Romantic Painters of 19th-Century, like Turner, Delacroix, Gericault and Friedrich. After the Romanticism lesson … Read more
Ideas to work on the warm and cool colours
I was thinking about new ideas to propose to the students to work on the warm and cool colors. We use acrylic paints especially to … Read more
The square color wheel!
Here a special color “wheel”, it is drawn freehand and colored with tempera colours on a square sheet. The students of year 6 colored their … Read more
Zentangle hand on a value background
With students of Class 2A we did the same exercise of the previous post with Zentangle Flower, but we tried another subject: every students decorated … Read more
Silhouette on colorful gradation
Student of grade 9 (class 3B), learned to use acrylic colours, mixing them to get colour gradations. Then they painted a black silhouette on the … Read more
A cup of fantasy!
Funny cups painted with tempera! This is a good exercise to learn how many textures you can paint with tempera colours, and how many ways … 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
Tempera landscapes
Here some landscape’s copies painting with acrylic paint by grade 8 students (seconda media).
Landscapes from Modern Art
Here are some copies of works of art, tempera paintings by students of grade 9 (classe terza). The the theme is the landscape in Modern Art.
Free interpretation of a still life
With students of grade 8 we analyzed the still life in the paintings of modern art. Starting with a photographic image or real objects the … Read more
The faces – masks
Starting from the proportions of the face we saw in a previous lesson, the students have designed the masks and painted with tempera, alternating warm … Read more
Still life: details from Modern Art
These small paintings were copied from paintings of modern art, where painters such as Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne and Morandi have dealt with the theme of … Read more