With 9th Grade students, we made drawings inspired by the works of Gustav Klimt, the great Viennese artist who best interprets the style of Art Nouveau in the early twentieth century.Observing the … [Read more...]
Collage inspired by Degas with video tutorial
January 9, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Inspired by the famous Degas' Dancers these collages are made with brown package paper and magazine paper. To copy the main lines of the dancer we used a photocopy of a Degas' Dancer and copied it on … [Read more...]
Painting inspired by Monet’s Waterlilies with video tutorial
December 17, 2020 by Leave a Comment
To create this mixed media painting inspired by the famous Monet's Waterlilies we need: a drawing sheet (24x33), a ruler, oil pastels, watercolors, a paintbrush, or a water brush. In the video … [Read more...]
Random lines
December 2, 2020 by 2 Comments
With 6th Grade students we worked on the topic of the LINE drawing many types of interwoven lines: we traced the lines with the pencil and then with a black permanent marker. We … [Read more...]
Monsters in complementary colors
May 14, 2020 by Leave a Comment
We invent monsters to work with COMPLEMENTARY colors. We draw and color four monsters with mixed technique, each monster must be colored with a pair of complementary colors: red-green, blue-orange, … [Read more...]
Final Exams 2019
November 6, 2019 by Leave a Comment
I post just now my students' works which were created for the final exams of the previous school year. I hope these works will be an inspiration for the students who are attending their last year of … [Read more...]
Identikit from a description
September 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This is an interesting activity suggested by the art teacher Carlo Vedova and the name of this inter-disciplinary project is "One, Many, No Me". He doesn't work in my school, but in a school far away … [Read more...]
Van Gogh at my place
February 11, 2019 by Leave a Comment
8th Grade students studied Van Gogh’s art works and his specific painting technique. We specifically examined The Starry Night, one of the most famous painting of Van Gogh. First every student … [Read more...]
Artist Trading Cards 2019: Souvenir from Trentino (ITALY)
January 20, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Here we are, ready for the 4th Annual Artist Trading Card Swap! This year for the Artist Trading Card Global Swap 2019 we thought about our beautiful region, Trentino Alto Adige, in the … [Read more...]
Symmetrical Robot
May 22, 2018 by 1 Comment
After the capitals and the insects we created the symmetrical robots, drawing the strangest and most immaginative robots. To realize this drawing we first drew half robot on half sheet of tracing … [Read more...]
