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
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
Ideas to work on the warm and cool colours
I was thinking about new ideas to propose to the students to work on the warm and cool colors. We use acrylic paints especially to … Read more
The square color wheel!
Here a special color “wheel”, it is drawn freehand and colored with tempera colours on a square sheet. The students of year 6 colored their … Read more
Color Wheel – Printable worksheet (in Italian language!)
Dopo aver cercato nel web un Cerchio Cromatico in italiano da stampare e far colorare ai ragazzi, ho deciso di disegnarmelo perchè proprio non sono … Read more
A cup of fantasy!
Funny cups painted with tempera! This is a good exercise to learn how many textures you can paint with tempera colours, and how many ways … Read more
To become an artist…
Some simple rules to follow in the Art Room… sorry they are in italian, but I need to share with the italian teachers! I copied … Read more
Folders for drawings – grade 6
Every student made a folder to contain his drawings (in Italy is very difficult to find the useful sketchbooks that are used in UK!), and … Read more
Printing an Olympic texture
A simple idea for the background of a School project on the Olympic Games. The texture is inspired by the Olympic rings!
African Patterns on wrapping paper
On wrapping paper you draw simple african patterns with a white oil pastel: lines, dots, spirals, triangles, circles and stylized animals. Then you can paint … Read more
Flags with lights and shadows
Another exercise to practice the right position of lights and shadows, with a sideward source of light. We used the same technique of our previous … Read more
Storybook characters on old book pages
The old book pages inspired me to draw storybook characters . You can suggest a subject or pupils can choose their favourite characters. My son … Read more