Futurist Olympics: Felt-tip Pen Version
Inspired by the works of Giacomo Balla, such as The Hand of the Violinist or Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, we explored the … Read more
The Gallery of My Emotions
This art project invited students to explore their inner world and give a visual shape to their feelings. By creating a personal “Gallery of Emotions,” … Read more
Black and White lines Landscape with Gold Sun
With the sixth-grade classes, we held a workshop on one of the fundamental elements of art: the line. Our goal was to transform a simple … Read more
My Island: a Map to knowing Yourself
This workshop was designed to help 6th grade students reflect on their identity, tastes, and emotions, transforming these abstract elements into a visible and concrete … Read more
Final Exams: 2025 Projects
As every year, I’m pleased to share the works created by the students for their middle school final exam.Starting from a central theme that guided … Read more
Complementary color drawing inspired by Alighiero Boetti
ALIGHIERO BOETTI is an Italian artist active from the 60s to the 90s. His most famous works are the TAPESTRIES in which the artist has … Read more
An “explosion book” to show your emotion!
To create this “EXPLOSION BOOK” with the 6th grade students we reflected on our emotions asking ourselves if it is possible to REPRESENT an emotion … 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
Final Exams 2024
I publish the works created by students for their eighth grade exams. Starting from a central topic on which the oral exam was developed, each … Read more
Flower field in complementary colors
A very interesting topic of color theory is the complementary colours, colors that are opposite to each other in the Itten circle, which when put … Read more