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
Mosaic workshop: work in progress…
We begin to see the compositions of colors and images that take shape to the sound of hammers and pliers. Here are some work in … Read more
The first few mosaic tiles
The pupils of the optional course of mosaic have begun to cut and lay the first tiles … and they realized that it is a … Read more
Mosaic workshop: first sketches
With pupils aged 11 and 12 who attend the workshop on Thursday we started to draw the first sketches for the realization of the mosaics. … Read more