Silhouette in color gradations
An interesting exercise on gradations has been made in classes of grade 8° by combining a background and a silhouette painted with gradations in complementary … Read more
Inspired by Matisse Cut-Outs
An important exhibition in 2014 at the Tate Modern in London was dedicated to a giant of modern art Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, 17 April … Read more
Still Life with Mixed Media
An interesting experience in using mixed media, has been tested in the classes of grade 8, where we have mixed so many different techniques in … Read more
Romantic Graffiti
The art works of Romantic artists that we observed by studying the European Romanticism of the 1800s, suggested us images inspired by the paintings in … Read more
Tubes striped
We’re still working on the different ways to represent the illusion of space, and in the 8th grade classes we have created this collage, drawing … Read more
My Alien Friend!
Among the topics studied in the literature of this period by the students of grade 9 there is the literary genre of science fiction. This … Read more
A portrait by Picasso made with collage
In this exercise, one of the famous Cubist portraits painted by Picasso has been made with collage, using different kinds of paper (colored tissue paper, … Read more
Custom placemarks in the class
Again we are talking about names to learn, and faces to remember … These cards with names can be personalized with a symbol or a … Read more
The paper necklaces
My friend Alessandra Tombesi suggested to me this work that she has created for the market of the school and that was very much appreciated. … Read more
Pop-Up Italian Roman arenas
On May 19, I led a “pop-up card workshop” to teach how to build a card pop-up inspired by roman arenas, particularly by the Colosseum … Read more
Silhouettes of chairs for poetic evocations
PRIVATE GIG With some students we choose some different shapes of chairs to cut out from different sorts of paper in order to create a … Read more
The Victorian School into a collage Pop-up
A small collage pop-up to explain how it was the English school in 1800, from a Laura’s idea to show various aspects of the Victorian … Read more