Murales: We love our world!
In the project, dedicated to the landscape of our home, the Piana Rotaliana, the students transformed the walls of the cafeteria corridor into a visual … Read more
The painting technique of the Impressionists
With the 8th grade students we made tempera copies of paintings by Claude Monet, the great Impressionist painter. We imitated his technique made of small … Read more
Digital drawings in value scale
To make these digital drawings we used the Sketchbook App on the iPad. We are fortunate to be able to use these devices provided by … Read more
Spring Landscape in One Point Perspective
Let’s re-propose the landscape that we can see in this video tutorial in a new spring version: We draw the same sequence of lines starting … Read more
Black & White Cities in Two Points Perspective
To create this urban landscape in two points perspective, with the 7th grade students, we used a graduated frame that you can find here, which … Read more
Small Value Scale Landscapes with video tutorial
These small landscapes have been painted with watercolors, by 7th-grade students after a lesson about landscape and the representation of space with value scale. Here … Read more
Photo Challenge: genres and perspective
To review the last topics I propose a task to my 8th-grade students: a photo challenge whit pictorial genres and perspective. The task was to … Read more
Painting inspired by Monet’s Waterlilies with video tutorial
To create this mixed media painting inspired by the famous Monet’s Waterlilies we need: a drawing sheet (24×33), a ruler, oil pastels, watercolors, a paintbrush, … Read more
Watercolor landscape inspired by Friedrich with Video Tutorial
With 8th Grade students we studied the Romanticism and its artists. We noticed as Caspar David Friedrich often paints the silhouette of characters who admire … Read more
Instant photo: drawing small landscapes
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 … Read more
Scenography for the play “Marcovaldo”
With a small number of students, we realized a scenography for a real stage show. It was a challenge to deal with a real task: … Read more
Drawing mountains
Drawing the mountains trying not to fall into the stereotype of “snow-capped pyramids” is possible only through the observation of reality and the copy from … Read more