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
Copying natural textures
With the Grade 7 (11 year-old) we made small copies from life of the natural textures with colored pencils. In the second phase we have … Read more
Sentences in complementary colors
We have created a painting inspired by the works of Paul Klee and Alighiero Boetti using letters of the alphabet as a pretext to create … Read more
The mosaics completed
After all this work the mosaic course produces his first artworks. The pupils of the Year 7 who made them have become real experts in … Read more
The capitals in “Free” style
Doric, Ionic or Corinthian? None of that! The students of 7th grade have created their capitals Order Free, Magic and Fantastic, assembling animal legs, margins … Read more
Keith Haring T-shirts
With some of the students’ 8th year we decorated T-shirts with the colors for the fabric. What better inspiration we could choose, if not the … Read more
Project Guembé: the colors of biodiversity
I report a site where the drawings were published in the previous academic year by some students of year 7 http://www.guembeproject.net/articolo.php?id=76 Within the project Guembé, … Read more
Stained glass of tissue paper
After observing the Gothic stained glass with the students of ‘8th grade we made the “stained glass windows” of tissue paper. We started the elaboration … Read more
Value landscapes
To continue our journey to discover the colors, with the year 7 classes, we painted landscapes in tempera tonal gradation. The forms that become more … Read more
The story of a girl named Anne Frank: the set
“I wish, I wish it all,” this is the title of the play conceived and directed by Elena Galvani and James Laurino with middle school … Read more