A cup of fantasy!
Funny cups painted with tempera! This is a good exercise to learn how many textures you can paint with tempera colours, and how many ways … Read more
I wonder what will appear…
Thoughtful hat This short exercise (the lenght of it is around 10 minutes) reveals so many peculiarity of the character and the disposition of every … Read more
How many pictures for a shape?
To begin with my pupils of Year7, I gave them just an empty circle and everyone filled the shape with different textures and pictures… how … Read more
Working with complementary colors
A simple exercise inspired by the shapes of Matisse to learn about complementary colors. Prepare a 5x5cm grid and then you draw freeform shapes, coloring with alternating complementary colors.
Free interpretation of a still life
With students of grade 8 we analyzed the still life in the paintings of modern art. Starting with a photographic image or real objects the … Read more
The faces – masks
Starting from the proportions of the face we saw in a previous lesson, the students have designed the masks and painted with tempera, alternating warm … Read more
Painting moving figures
After building a dummy cardboard jointed, students of 8th grade choose a pose, a sport or movement, and drew the outline of the cardboard … Read more
Surrealist rooms
The study of perspective in the 8th grade was the starting point for the realization of these rooms surreal. The design of a room in … Read more
The capitals in “Free” style
Doric, Ionic or Corinthian? None of that! The students of 7th grade have created their capitals Order Free, Magic and Fantastic, assembling animal legs, margins … Read more
Landscape painting with texture
con gli alunni della 1°A abbiamo usato la tempera in modo molto creativo, ideando paesaggi dipinti con texture scaturite direttamente dalla fantasia! sofia david alessia … Read more
Inventing a texture!
We tried to train our hand with some exercise by creating texture with felt-tip pens, then we cut it off and paste on a black … Read more