Participation in the opera “Aida”
Opera Domani is a project for the opera productions, introduced by educational paths. With our school we attended the performance of the opera “Aida -Love is … Read more
Perspective in space!
By analyzing the various ways of representing space, we arrived to the study of perspective. In this collage, with students in the seventh grade, we … Read more
Matisse on the cabinet!
What an idea! A large collage with adhesive paper to decorate the cabinets of art room! Which artist, if not Matisse, can give us the inspiration … Read more
Inspired by Matisse Cut-Outs
An important exhibition in 2014 at the Tate Modern in London was dedicated to a giant of modern art Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, 17 April … Read more
A portrait by Picasso made with collage
In this exercise, one of the famous Cubist portraits painted by Picasso has been made with collage, using different kinds of paper (colored tissue paper, … Read more
Custom placemarks in the class
Again we are talking about names to learn, and faces to remember … These cards with names can be personalized with a symbol or a … Read more
Pop-Up Italian Roman arenas
On May 19, I led a “pop-up card workshop” to teach how to build a card pop-up inspired by roman arenas, particularly by the Colosseum … Read more
Three dimensional Mirò
I thought of a way to create a three-dimensional structure with the characteristic drawings by Joan Miro, which are specifically two-dimensional. Students have copied some … 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
Silhouettes of chairs for poetic evocations
PRIVATE GIG With some students we choose some different shapes of chairs to cut out from different sorts of paper in order to create a … Read more
Pop-up with the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
With the pupils of Year 3 of Cherry Garden Primary School we realized these pop-up card to summarize their topic about the 7 Wonders of … Read more
Happy Easter Cards!
An idea for Easter Cards by a wonderful teacher of Cherry Garden School, just to wish you all a happy Easter! Colored cardboards, painted with spring … Read more