My Welcome Backpack
To welcome our 6th-grade classes and get to know the new students better, we proposed a special icebreaker activity: drawing a backpack filled with passions, … Read more
Slab Ceramic Letters: Texture and Color
This year, in the basic ceramics course organized for 6th-grade classes, we explored the slab technique, focusing on creating three-dimensional textures on clay. We decided … 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
Murales: We love our world!
In the project, dedicated to the landscape of our home, the Piana Rotaliana, the students transformed the walls of the cafeteria corridor into a visual … 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
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
Pinch pot ceramic bells
With the pinch pot technique we made these little ceramic bells, all with different shapes and sounds. The pinch pot technique allows you to make … 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