Exercises in shade and gradations to the new folders
In classes of 8th grade we started to practice with the shades and gradations in the drawings that will be used for the cover of … Read more
Copying value from Felice Casorati’s still lifes
Sometimes is difficult to explain how many tonal value you can find in a black & white pictures because the scale of lights and shadows … Read more
Lights and shadows sharp
With the students of grade 8 (classe seconda B) we worked on the lights and shadows in the photograph. With the tracing paper and colored … Read more
Flags with lights and shadows
Another exercise to practice the right position of lights and shadows, with a sideward source of light. We used the same technique of our previous … Read more
Still life with oil pastels
A simple exercise to learn lights, shadow and colour shades. You draw some shapes like bottles, spheres, cups, cylinders and then you colour them with … Read more
Value exercise
I used simple cardboards, black and coloured, even sheets of coloured papers could be good. First, I drawn the scrolls on the coloured cardboards with … Read more
Proportion of the face and value
The faces were drawn in pencil on a grid, following certain proportions. The second step was to add lights and shadows to the drawings, to … Read more
Pomegranates for a poster
A new competition is engaging the year 9 students that copy the image of the “pomegranate”. We have been asked to carry out the design … Read more
Little sketch in ink
Potete farlo anche voi in queste giornate di sole dove tutto invita a sedersi sull’erba e lasciare viaggiare lo sguardo e i pensieri: basta un … 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
Still-life striped
with pupils of grade 8 we are experiencing different ways to create shadows, one of which is to get the nuances simply by varying the … Read more