This interesting project was realized by the Italian art teacher Paola Riso and the artist Daniela Paola Motta in the Middle School “Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa” of San Giovanni La Punta in Sicily … [Read more...]
Girl with rainbow fan and video tutorial
January 31, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Here an idea to work on the color wheel and the color theory with watercolors. A fan with the colors of the rainbow held by an elegant Japanese girl in a traditional gown. This painting is made using … [Read more...]
Character inspired by Dubuffet
January 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Thanks to the idea of my colleague Luigi Santibacci, we created these imaginative characters inspired by Jean Dubuffet with 6th Grade students. We observed his sculptures, with their unmistakable … [Read more...]
Random lines
December 2, 2020 by 2 Comments
With 6th Grade students we worked on the topic of the LINE drawing many types of interwoven lines: we traced the lines with the pencil and then with a black permanent marker. We … [Read more...]
Instant photo: drawing small landscapes
October 24, 2020 by 4 Comments
These small landscapes are created in the common style of social network or instant photo. The square format is suitable to draw nice landscape with few colored pencils creating depht and space. … [Read more...]
Endless line, shape, and colors
October 21, 2020 by Leave a Comment
In the 6th grade classes, we worked with elements of art, focusing on the LINE topic. The idea of this activity comes from the brilliant American art teacher Jessica Hamilton. You can find her on … [Read more...]
Pattern with symmetrical drawings
October 9, 2020 by 4 Comments
After drawing a composition in radial symmetry following the steps you can find HERE in a previous lesson, we took a picture and insert it in a Google Slide grid, shared in Google Classroom. Here … [Read more...]
Find texture around you
September 25, 2020 by Leave a Comment
After understanding what a texture is, we considered how artists use the representation of surfaces to visually show the tactile sensation of an object. I challenged my students to find the textures … [Read more...]
Monsters in complementary colors
May 14, 2020 by Leave a Comment
We invent monsters to work with COMPLEMENTARY colors. We draw and color four monsters with mixed technique, each monster must be colored with a pair of complementary colors: red-green, blue-orange, … [Read more...]
A monochrome picture with #hashtag
May 2, 2020 by Leave a Comment
I sent my students chasing colors around the house, they took a MONOCHROME photo by grouping a series of objects on a colored background, all of the same color. The next step was to upload the photo … [Read more...]
