A Superhero who saves Art and Nature
We took a civic education lesson, trying to understand what Cultural and Environmental Heritage are, why we must protect them and what we must protect … Read more
Small Value Scale Landscapes with video tutorial
These small landscapes have been painted with watercolors, by 7th-grade students after a lesson about landscape and the representation of space with value scale. Here … Read more
Copying a portrait using the Grid Method
We created these photographic portrait copies using the grid method and learned a fairly simple way to zoom and reproduce an image. The portrait is … Read more
Still life on package paper with video tutorial
To create these monochrome drawings on brown package paper, my 7th-grade students used three pencils: one white, one brown, and one black. In the video … Read more
Oil pastels: many ideas for a sphere
How many spherical objects do surround us? For this drawing activity, I asked my students to choose an image of a spherical object to copy. … Read more
Forms on watercolor background
Similar to a previous activity you can find here, we created this mixed media work, with shaded forms on a watercolor background. The bright colors … Read more
The mask I would like
I publish here the interesting work of Ilaria Cagno, an Italian art teacher who had the idea to decorate the masks we wear every day … Read more
Still life on abstract background
In order to understand the light and shadow on a solid, we drew the shades on a group of objects with a pencil. In this … Read more
Value Cut Out
In these abstract drawings, we practiced different techniques of value: shading, crosshatching, and scumbling. Practicing value on white paper we created some free shapes. After … Read more
Instant photo: drawing small landscapes
These small landscapes are created in the common style of social network or instant photo. The square format is suitable to draw nice landscape with … Read more
Pattern with symmetrical drawings
After drawing a composition in radial symmetry following the steps you can find HERE in a previous lesson, we took a picture and insert it … Read more
Video tutorial: one-point perspective winter landscape
In this difficult moment due to isolation for the coronavirus, we and our students must stay safe at home. As teachers, we can just suggest … Read more