Buy now I propose here three worksheets with many 3-D forms of various size and shape, ready to be shaded. The worksheets are useful to practice shading on different kinds of forms, both with flat and curved surfaces. You can decide where is the source of light and practice different kinds of chiaroscuro (crosshatching, scumbling, shading…). After shading the forms you can cut them out and … [Read more...]
15 Christmas Templates
December 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
15 different silhouettes of Christmas decorations in 3 printable pdf worksheets. You can decorate the templates in different ways, with colored patterns, zentangle, or use them as decorations for the Christmas tree. Buy now Here below an example of how you can use the templates in an exercise about lines. … [Read more...]
Symmetrical Robot: 3 worksheets
May 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
After the capitals and the insects we created the symmetrical robots, drawing the strangest and most immaginative robots. To realize this drawing we first drew half robot on half sheet of tracing paper. After that we copied it on a drawing sheet and copied it again turning it upside down, to complete a symmetrical figure. For our drawing we looked at some pictures on internet, but here below … [Read more...]
Shoe Design: 2 worksheets
April 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Two printable worksheets ready to be completed with a design of two different kind of shoes. The template of a décolleté and of a trainer are ready to be drawn with a pencil and colored with colored pencils or felt-tip pens in a personal way. In these pictures you can see an activity where students has been inspired by their fondness for a place, an hobby, a sport, an idea, to which dedicate their … [Read more...]
Drawing about me: 2 worksheets
October 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The Art lessons for this school year in the 6th Grade classes, follow the CLIL methodology (Content and Language Integrated Learning). To start I devised a lesson plan aimed at welcoming the new students. A simple art activity where each student completes a worksheet about himself/herself. Here are the instructions: 1. Write and colour your name in capital letters in the rectangle below 2. … [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 like a sick patient for a doctor: how to heal a work of art? The world of the restoration is complex and fascinating: we can learn that the restoration and respect for the work of art are always … [Read more...]
Design a wall clock: worksheets
March 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
We’ve already designed a chair and a table lamp in some previous lessons, and this time we deal with a new object: we have to design a wall clock, taking its specific functions into consideration before drawing it. In the grade 8th classes we discussed about the origin and evolution of design and we analysed the functional features of a wall clock. Some elements, as the position of hours and the … [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 the textures. The templates should be printed on paper or white cardboard, and then you can cut out the model’s dress with a cutter. In that way you create an empty space that you can fill up in … [Read more...]
Still life on abstract background
September 28, 2016 by 8 Comments
In order to understand the light and shadow on a solid we drew the shades on a group of objects with a pencil. In this still life some students of 8° grade have also experienced shading with crossed lines (cross-hatching), showing some skill! The background was decorated with felt-tip pens, with an abstract design where everyone has expressed freely his style. This contrast between the still … [Read more...]
