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 tutorial below you can follow every step of … [Read more...]
Oil pastels: many ideas for a sphere
January 1, 2021 by Leave a Comment
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. These drawings are made entirely with oil pastels with … [Read more...]
Forms on watercolor background
December 10, 2020 by Leave a Comment
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 make the shaded forms stand out, creating a sense of … [Read more...]
The mask I would like
November 15, 2020 by Leave a Comment
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 since we need to protect ourselves from Covid-19. She created … [Read more...]
Value Cut Out
November 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
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 filling two or three … [Read more...]
Instant photo: drawing small landscapes
October 24, 2020 by 4 Comments
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 few colored pencils creating depht and space. … [Read more...]
Pattern with symmetrical drawings
October 9, 2020 by 4 Comments
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 in a Google Slide grid, shared in Google Classroom. Here … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial: Cubism with pencils and coffee
April 8, 2020 by Leave a Comment
You need just a drawing paper, some colored pencils and an espresso ( a very short coffee) to create this still life in the style of CUBISM. Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing … [Read more...]
Video tutorial: one-point perspective winter landscape
March 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment
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 some simple tasks with basic art supplies through online … [Read more...]
Shading Forms
February 25, 2020 by 2 Comments
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 the object you are drawing. Something with sharp … [Read more...]
