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Mandala with Color Theory

This activity is suitable for a Color Theory revision. With 6th grade students, we created a mandala-style design, but drawing only a portion of the … Read more

Character inspired by Dubuffet

Thanks to the idea of my colleague Luigi Santibacci, we created these imaginative characters inspired by Jean Dubuffet with 6th Grade students. We observed his … Read more

The magic of Gustav Klimt

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 … Read more

Random lines

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 … Read more

Shading Forms

How can you shade different forms and solids with different kinds of surfaces? We observed that the strength of the shadow’s edges are determined by … Read more

Enhance the background

We have often dealt with the drawing of a FACE and its PROPORTIONS, working on the colors and shades of hair, eyes, and mouth. We … Read more

Cute or Scary monster?

This activity is inspired by this nice video “How to draw a Scary Cute monster (Folding Surprise)”  ( For those of you who don’t know I … Read more

15 Christmas Templates

15 different silhouettes of Christmas decorations in 3 printable pdf worksheets. You can decorate the  templates in different ways, with colored patterns, zentangle, or use … Read more