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
Color Wheel – Printable worksheet (in Italian language!)
Dopo aver cercato nel web un Cerchio Cromatico in italiano da stampare e far colorare ai ragazzi, ho deciso di disegnarmelo perchè proprio non sono … Read more
A cup of fantasy!
Funny cups painted with tempera! This is a good exercise to learn how many textures you can paint with tempera colours, and how many ways … Read more
Folders for drawings – grade 6
Every student made a folder to contain his drawings (in Italy is very difficult to find the useful sketchbooks that are used in UK!), and … Read more
I wonder what will appear…
Thoughtful hat This short exercise (the lenght of it is around 10 minutes) reveals so many peculiarity of the character and the disposition of every … Read more
How many pictures for a shape?
To begin with my pupils of Year7, I gave them just an empty circle and everyone filled the shape with different textures and pictures… how … Read more
Printing an Olympic texture
A simple idea for the background of a School project on the Olympic Games. The texture is inspired by the Olympic rings!
African Patterns on wrapping paper
On wrapping paper you draw simple african patterns with a white oil pastel: lines, dots, spirals, triangles, circles and stylized animals. Then you can paint … Read more
Storybook characters on old book pages
The old book pages inspired me to draw storybook characters . You can suggest a subject or pupils can choose their favourite characters. My son … Read more
Recycled polystyrene foam printing
I used recycled polystyrene foam from pizza’s package to do matrices for hand printings. I used acrylic colour spreaded on the matrix by a flat … Read more
Color theory inspired by Paul Klee
Exercises on warm and cool colours, complementary colours or primary and secodary colours inspired by Paul Klee’s works of art. Here we used watercolors on … Read more
Printed with leaves and flowers
I thought about something very spring and I painted it with acrylic colours, leaves and flowers.