In these printable worksheets you can find two simple template ready to to print and cut to create pop-up cards with 3 or 4 shapes that stand up when you open the card. Following the instructions and … [Read more...]
Mixed Media Landscape
November 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Working in pairs students Students of Grade 6th created these mixed media landscape. First we measure the drawing paper with a ruler and draw 6 columns, 5 column are 6 cm wide and the last one is … [Read more...]
3-D Geometric Paper Shapes with Patterns
October 30, 2018 by 1 Comment
After doing a lesson about Shapes and Forms as elements of art my colleague Francesca Dallago created these 3-D solids with Grade 7th students. They traced the lines on a white cardboard (220 gr/sq … [Read more...]
New works inspired by Harold Hollingsworth
October 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
For a while I’ve been following, with admiration and esteem, the work of Harold Hollingsworth a contemporary artist from Seattle, Washington. In his most recent works he embellished his paintings … [Read more...]
Piero della Francesca in the style of Barry McGee
May 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Inspired by a previous post dedicated to the artist Barry McGee, the art teacher Marcella Manco with her students of Arezzo Middle School "Piero della Francesca" , created these amazing works: they … [Read more...]
The color wheel in a big collage
March 6, 2018 by 5 Comments
This group work is simple but really effective. You can create a big color wheel with colored pieces of paper, ripped from magazines and old books. The whole class works to complete all the colors of … [Read more...]
Romanesque pop-up Cathedral
February 27, 2018 by Leave a Comment
A new and interesting idea from the art teacher Giovanni Perdicchia, who has already published on this website an activity about art works and photography. These Romanesque pop-up Cathedrals have been … [Read more...]
Restore ancient Greek vases
September 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Before being a teacher I worked as a restorer in many Italian cities and I completed my restoration study at the National School of Restoration in Florence. A damaged work of art for a restorer, is … [Read more...]
Fashion design with Textures: worksheets and 5 activities
January 4, 2017 by 3 Comments
The drawings for these activities are inspired by Scott Nylund’s work, an american illustrator and fashion designer . I really like his clean and graceful style and I found it suitable for working on … [Read more...]
I-cube: me in numbers
November 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Can we introduce ourselves with numbers? We can do it on the 6 sides of a cube! We called this activity I-cube and we used numbers to explain our hobbies, our special numbers, our relatives and our … [Read more...]
