Copying natural textures
With the Grade 7 (11 year-old) we made small copies from life of the natural textures with colored pencils. In the second phase we have … Read more
Project Guembé: the colors of biodiversity
I report a site where the drawings were published in the previous academic year by some students of year 7 http://www.guembeproject.net/articolo.php?id=76 Within the project Guembé, … Read more
The still lifes by Giorgio Morandi
With pupils of year 8 we studied a great Italian painter of the 1900s, Giorgio Morandi, with his still lifes full of quiet solitude, and … Read more
Cèzanne’s still life
From the many paintings by Cézanne dedicated to the “still life” we took some details and copying them with oil pastels, trying to imitate the … Read more
Bas-reliefs of Romanesque art
Color gradations reveal the mysterious and fantastic forms of medieval, mythical animals and monsters carved by the skilled hands of ancient sculptors. Students of Year … Read more
Lights & shadows
With year 8 pupils have been working with the lights and shadows, simplifying images up to the essential forms. The image is defined only by … Read more