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
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