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
Shading Forms
How can you shade different forms and solids with different kinds of surfaces? We observed that the strength of the shadow’s edges are determined by … Read more
Enhance the background
We have often dealt with the drawing of a FACE and its PROPORTIONS, working on the colors and shades of hair, eyes, and mouth. We … Read more
Intertwined ribbons on abstract watercolor
With 7th Grade students, we faced a difficult task that has been more challenging than expected. The topic is intertwined ribbons, they were drawn with … Read more