The Dolomites: UNESCO World Heritage Site
In the field of Civic and Citizenship Education we talked about education in respect and valorization of Cultural Heritage and we saw how, in cultural … Read more
The Portrait in Modern Art: Small Copies
We have already experienced how useful it is to copy styles and techniques from artists, this time with the Year 7Th students we studied the … Read more
Giotto: “The Flight into Egypt” Poster
After studying Giotto and his works, especially those of the Scrovegni Chapel, we created a large collaborative POSTER, where each student tried to copy the … Read more
Giotto collaborative poster: 20 worksheets
To create this collaborative poster we used the PDF images that you can find below. In the worksheets you will find the 20 sheets that … Read more
Pattern Castles
We created these mixed media drawings to experiment with various techniques: creating black and white patterns with different tools and painting the background with shaded … Read more
Draw a castle: 2 worksheets
Two printable PDF worksheets to draw an imaginative CASTLE. In the worksheets we find many types of BUILDINGS, TOWERS, DOORS AND WINDOWS drawn in a … Read more
Illustrated poetry
With sixth grade students we did this interdisciplinary work in collaboration with the Italian teachers and with my art colleague Maria Noemi Demaio. First, the … Read more
Red shoes to say: STOP violence against women
November 25th is the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women”. This is an anniversary established by the United Nations General Assembly in … Read more
Mona Lisa, I’m taking you to a place…
Leonardo’s famous Mona Lisa came out of his painting to come and visit us! With the 7th grade students we drew our Mona Lisa and … Read more
Sketchbook 2019
For a year I worked on a notebook that was a “house in the storm”, as friends of the “notebook movement” led by Liana Zanfrisco … Read more