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
Big collage landscape
Every student painted 5 different texture with tempera colours: grass, rocks, sky,water and wood. We cut the sheets and composed two big mountain landscapes with … Read more
Big mosaic
In the mosaic workshop attended by students of year 7 we made a large mosaic working in groups, each student was responsible for a color, … Read more
Christmas cards
Here in the UK it is very common to exchange greeting cards for Christmas, and since each of my children has at least 25 classmates, … Read more
Pop-up greeting cards
Just a little ‘of colored cardboard, scissors, glue and some felt-tip pens to send a special message to someone special!
Painting moving figures
After building a dummy cardboard jointed, students of 8th grade choose a pose, a sport or movement, and drew the outline of the cardboard … Read more