Drawings, Music, Emotions: collaborative project
Matching drawings, music, and emotions is a fascinating experience, which helps to express yourself and your own feeling. Is not possible to fail or to … Read more
4 ways to draw with DOTS
We created these mixed media paintings with 6th grade students. We experienced that you can create very expressive images just using dots. The dot is … Read more
Hearts in complementary colors
Complementary colors are fascinating because of their contrast: the powerful fight between two contrasting colors is made of light, brightness and energy. We proved it painting a … Read more
The color wheel like a flower
Every school year we work on the color theory and the color wheel, and is quite difficult to find new and original ways to paint … Read more
Textured flowers: collaborative project
Working on the textures we painted these flowers with the 6th grade students. We practiced lots of different textures, using tempera painting with different tools, … Read more
A fantastic symmetric insect
Every day we see symmetrical shapes, that we can find both in nature and in the works of man. We were inspired by the insects’ … Read more
Many lines for a leaf
To stay on the theme of Autumn, we drew leaves using the subject of the lines. In sixth grade classes, we have made the drawing … Read more
Paul Klee Collage: 5 worksheets
Five printable worksheets that reproduce some famous works by Paul Klee with one thing in common: all five paintings evoke the LANDSCAPES using the LINE … Read more
Op Art Snakes
Can lines create three-dimensional optical effects? Here is a new example with three snakes trying to camouflage themselves between the lines … With students … Read more
A lot of dots for a painting
With students of the sixth grade, we observed that the smallest element of visual language is the POINT. Is it possible to make a work … Read more
Art with your hands!
Nothing could be simpler than copying our hand with a pencil … and then? We decorate our hands with shapes and free colors, but putting … Read more
Mushrooms in imaginative textures
As the previous Autumn, with the 6th grade classes, we have collaborated on a science project on knowledge of fungi. In science lessons pupils have … Read more