Girl with rainbow fan and video tutorial
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 … Read more
Monsters in complementary colors
We invent monsters to work with COMPLEMENTARY colors. We draw and color four monsters with mixed technique, each monster must be colored with a pair … Read more
Colors, music, and emotions: online learning & teaching
We know, it’s not the same as being in the classroom, but we are really making every effort to be close to our students as … Read more
Create a Color Wheel with objects
Going on with online teaching and learning I suggested a challenge to my students who don’t have at home all the art supplies we usually … Read more
Rainbow Chameleon
This activity helps us to practice mixing primary colors to obtain secondary and tertiary colors. with students of 6th Grade we studied the color wheel … Read more
Value Cubes
After a lesson about Value as one of the Element of Art, we painted these cubes with 7th Grade students . We used a template … Read more
New works inspired by Harold Hollingsworth
For a while I’ve been following, with admiration and esteem, the work of Harold Hollingsworth a contemporary artist from Seattle, Washington. In his most recent … Read more
Symmetrical Robot
After the capitals and the insects we created the symmetrical robots, drawing the strangest and most immaginative robots. To realize this drawing we first drew … Read more
Words in complementary colors
In order to better understand the complementary colors we created a drawing to paint with different shades of complementary colors. We chose a three-letters word … Read more
Tree in Warm & Cool colors
In this mixed media painting we used oil pastels and watercolors in order to learn the ranges of warm and cool colors. With students of … Read more
Paintings in scale of grays, inspired by B&W photos
This activity is an idea of the art teacher and friend Alessandra Tomasi. She is teaching at the Middle School of Fondo e Revò, in … Read more
Cats on the fence
Here we have an idea to try and use the primary colours and the neutral colours with tempera paint. First we draw the fence (high … Read more