Mandala -style design: 6 worksheets
From arteascuola.com 12 pdf printable worksheets to create a mandala-style design, but drawing only a portion of the circular decoration, without making a complete circle. … Read more
Collage inspired by Carla Accardi
This interesting project was realized by the Italian art teacher Paola Riso and the artist Daniela Paola Motta in the Middle School “Carlo Alberto Dalla … Read more
Girl with rainbow fan and video tutorial
Here an idea to work on the color wheel and the color theory with watercolors. A fan with the colors of the rainbow held by … 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
Painting inspired by Monet’s Waterlilies with video tutorial
To create this mixed media painting inspired by the famous Monet’s Waterlilies we need: a drawing sheet (24×33), a ruler, oil pastels, watercolors, a paintbrush, … 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
The mask I would like
I publish here the interesting work of Ilaria Cagno, an Italian art teacher who had the idea to decorate the masks we wear every day … Read more
Instant photo: drawing small landscapes
These small landscapes are created in the common style of social network or instant photo. The square format is suitable to draw nice landscape with … Read more
Endless line, shape, and colors
In the 6th grade classes, we worked with elements of art, focusing on the LINE topic. The idea of this activity comes from the brilliant … Read more
Pattern with symmetrical drawings
After drawing a composition in radial symmetry following the steps you can find HERE in a previous lesson, we took a picture and insert it … Read more
Find texture around you
After understanding what a texture is, we considered how artists use the representation of surfaces to visually show the tactile sensation of an object. I … Read more
Abstractionism with Google Drawing
After observing some famous abstract paintings, students created some digital images with Google Drawing. They started from the background, putting in the frame some shapes, … Read more