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 one of the most difficult things to copy but with … [Read more...]
Collage inspired by Carla Accardi
February 6, 2021 by Leave a Comment
This interesting project was realized by the Italian art teacher Paola Riso and the artist Daniela Paola Motta in the Middle School “Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa” of San Giovanni La Punta in Sicily … [Read more...]
Girl with rainbow fan and video tutorial
January 31, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Here an idea to work on the color wheel and the color theory with watercolors. A fan with the colors of the rainbow held by an elegant Japanese girl in a traditional gown. This painting is made using … [Read more...]
Still life on package paper with video tutorial
January 14, 2021 by 4 Comments
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 2 Comments
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...]
