The magical worlds of Paul Klee
Copying freehand an artwork of Paul Klee is a joyful experience, detached from any worry of resemblance to reality. What we experience is the playful … Read more
Abstract watercolors… follow instructions!
Talking about lyric abstractionism of Kandinsky and Paul Klee with students in grade 9, we painted a small abstract watercolor with a small guide of … Read more
Watercolors inspired by Michael Craig-Martin
After observing and commenting on the works of the contemporary artist Michael Craig-Martin, each student in grade 8 took a picture of five or six small objects … Read more
Twigs in complementary colors
With students of Grade 7, we are continuing our work on complementary colors. These sprigs have been drawn with wax crayons directly on the white … Read more
Asian Inspired Fans with paper plates
With students of Year 6 we painted some fans in Oriental style, with colorful watercolors on the background and silhouettes of bamboo plants and branches … Read more
Murano glassware shelf
Thinking about something decorative, colorful and transparent we thought of Murano glassware, to do an exercise with the primary and secondary colours. We made a drawing … Read more
Polar Landscapes
We prepared some Polars Landscapes painting with watercolors or gouache. We used several simple techniques to create different textures in order to achieve various effects … Read more
Ancient map colored with coffe
This map is copied from an ancient Tudor’s map with a pencil and then it has been redrawn it with a black permanent marker . We … Read more
Colored Bulbs
Another simple exercise with primary colors! We copied different kinds of bulbs drawing them with a black permanent marker. Each bulb is superimposed on another … Read more
Circles of colored words
Inspired by Kandinsky circles, we paint some simple circles with watercolors using just the three primary colors, mixing them each other and painting very loosely … 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
Color theory inspired by Paul Klee
Exercises on warm and cool colours, complementary colours or primary and secodary colours inspired by Paul Klee’s works of art. Here we used watercolors on … Read more