The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World … pop-up!
An idea to present the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World is a booklet pop-up where we can see them all together, as in a … Read more
Polar Landscapes
We prepared some Polars Landscapes painting with watercolors or gouache. We used several simple techniques to create different textures in order to achieve various effects … Read more
A Face Collage
How many colors, patterns, textures, shapes, objects you can find in a magazine? It’s an inexhaustible source of ideas to create whatever you want! We thought … Read more
The Ming Vases
I’ve tried an effective technique to imitate the Ming Vases, the typical Chinese vases in white porcelain with blue decorations. We begin copying the characteristic … Read more
Ancient map colored with coffe
This map is copied from an ancient Tudor’s map with a pencil and then it has been redrawn it with a black permanent marker . We … Read more
Christmas cards on scraps of map
Inspired by the works of Rachel Ann Austin, I realized some Christmas cards drawing on pieces of maps (white cardboard sizes 10x20cm, map scrap size 6x6cm). … Read more
Printing with Packaging Foam Chips
In a parcel sent to my home I found these polystyrene-foam packaging chips and I thought how to use them, instead of throwing them away! You can … Read more
Colored Bulbs
Another simple exercise with primary colors! We copied different kinds of bulbs drawing them with a black permanent marker. Each bulb is superimposed on another … Read more
Circles of colored words
Inspired by Kandinsky circles, we paint some simple circles with watercolors using just the three primary colors, mixing them each other and painting very loosely … Read more
A Rainbow Umbrella!
With the Year 6-7 (Classi Prime) we continued our work on color theory, painting this “Rainbow Umbrella”. As in the color wheel we used acrylic … Read more
Ideas to work on the warm and cool colours
I was thinking about new ideas to propose to the students to work on the warm and cool colors. We use acrylic paints especially to … Read more
The square color wheel!
Here a special color “wheel”, it is drawn freehand and colored with tempera colours on a square sheet. The students of year 6 colored their … Read more