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
Ceramic soap dish with leaf’s print
This is red clay, we added texture with leaves pressing them on the clay slab, then we put the slab in a small dish to give … Read more
Still life with oil pastels
A simple exercise to learn lights, shadow and colour shades. You draw some shapes like bottles, spheres, cups, cylinders and then you colour them with … Read more
Caerphilly Castle’s model
Here the photographs of the real Castle of Caerphilly in Cardiff (Wales, UK), Paolo realized a model with cardboard glued on wood and polystyrene base, … Read more
Ancient Parchment… with coffee
A simple system to simulate an ancient parchment is to use coffee to paint and stain the paper !
Tissue-paper window
Inspired to stained-glass windows, my son created this work to represent a St. David’s life episode. He drew a very simple and stylized scene, with … Read more
Pop-up castle
An idea for a pop-up castle! You just need some cardboards of different colors, and follow the instructions: you must fold the dashed lines and … Read more
Website for Word-Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in … Read more
Print and stencil decorations on cotton fabric
With pupils of 7th grade we decorated cotton fabric bags with colors for fabric. They cut some stencil from transparent acetate plastic sheets and painted … Read more