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.
Easter Hat!
My son Davide won the “Easter Hat Competition” at his School with this original creation! Just using cardboards, pencils or markers, scissor, glue and coloured tissue … Read more
Doodle Easter Eggs
I’ve found this project on the amazing web site of Alisa Burke and my daughter tried to do it for an “Easter Eggs School competition”… … Read more
Ceramic soap dish with leaf’s print
This is red clay, we added texture with leaves pressing them on the clay slab, then we put the slab in a small dish to give … Read more