The Ming Vases
I’ve tried an effective technique to imitate the Ming Vases, the typical Chinese vases in white porcelain with blue decorations. We begin copying the characteristic … 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
AZION…ARTI: another amazing italian Art Ed Blog
Here another new Art Blog from an Italian art teacher! She is Laura Tomasi, we met almost 30 years ago at the Secondary Art School … Read more
Printing with Packaging Foam Chips
In a parcel sent to my home I found these polystyrene-foam packaging chips and I thought how to use them, instead of throwing them away! You can … Read more
Queen Elizabeth I: the story in 2 minutes
Here is a video created by Paolo and Laura ( two of my children…). Laura’s homework was to create some project about the Queen Elizabeth … Read more
Ancient portrait with mixed media
This portrait of the King Henry VIII was copied from the original picture with a pencil on a white sheet, then it was colored and … 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
A Rainbow Umbrella!
With the Year 6-7 (Classi Prime) we continued our work on color theory, painting this “Rainbow Umbrella”. As in the color wheel we used acrylic … Read more
Recycled polystyrene foam printing
I used recycled polystyrene foam from pizza’s package to do matrices for hand printings. I used acrylic colour spreaded on the matrix by a flat … Read more
At school in the United Kingdom
my children at the first day of school in London Soprattutto per i colleghi Italiani consiglio un link al blog di francesca frame, con la … 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