A mural for the last day of school
Our large floral mural to end the year with a flourish! To wrap up the school year with a flourish, our school organized a series … Read more
The Silent Still Lifes of Giorgio Morandi
With our 7th-grade classes (Grade 7), we explored the poetic universe of Giorgio Morandi, immersing ourselves in his still lifes made of silence and suspension. … Read more
Large paintings by Post-impressionist artists
Steal Like an Artist: Copying the Post-Impressionist Masters In this workshop, we challenged ourselves by copying the Great Masters, a fundamental artistic practice to master … Read more
Murales: Speak beyond borders
With Grade 6 students we painted the mural “Speak Beyond Borders” on the walls of the language classrooms, a large globe of conversing faces takes … 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
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
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
Black & white animal on tonal gradation
With 6th grade students we worked on the theme of achromatic colors and tonal gradations, and we created these paintings with tempera paint to practice … Read more
Rainbow fish
To paint this rainbow fish we only used the primary colors as in the construction of the color wheel. First we drew a fish on … 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
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
Rainbow Umbrellas: mixed media drawing with video tutorial
With 6th grade students we made this mixed media drawing that summarizes the knowledge learned so far about the chromatic circle, the achromatic colors and … Read more