Arte a Scuola won! It’s the best Art Ed Blog of 2014
Arte a Scuola won the 4th Annual Art Ed Blog of the year Contest! This morning I had a big surprise to see that arteascuola.com … Read more
2014 Art Ed Blog of the Year: Vote Now!
Also this year arteascuola.com was selected among the best of Art Blog, from the website The The Art of Education. News of this year is the … Read more
Portrait in the style of Van Gogh
We used oil pastels on a black and white photocopy, and we imitated the unmistakable style of Van Gogh in “dashes”, to create a portrait … Read more
Illustrate a story
From a project in collaboration with the Italian teacher, with a 7th grade class, we attended a competition, by creating a story with the … Read more
2 Templates of “Minions Avatar”
Buy now Everyone knows the funny Minions, the small yellow handyman from the movie “Despicable Me”. You can buy the 2 templates for this lesson, … Read more
Cupcakes inspired by Wayne Thiebaud
One of the tricks to represent the space is to overlap the shapes in a way such that the position of the objects is perceived … Read more
Pictures of a still life
After talking of “still life” in art, I asked students to 7th grade, to take a picture of inanimate objects, giving them some quick instructions … Read more
4 printable worksheets about Gustav Klimt: second set
Buy now The last 4 pdf printable worksheets with details of the drawings of famous works of Gustav Klimt, as “The Kiss” and “The Tree … Read more
4 printable worksheets about Gustav Klimt: first set
Buy now The firsts 4 pdf printable worksheets with the drawings of famous works of Gustav Klimt, ready to be coloured with pencils or felt … Read more
Tropical landscape inspired by Gauguin
Here we have a tropical landscape in the style of Gauguin, with stylized shapes, precise outlines, unnatural contrasting colors, and solid colors. These designs were … Read more
Printable worksheets about Van Gogh
5 pdf printable worksheets with the drawings of the most famous Van Gogh’s works, ready to be coloured with pencils or felt tip pens. You … Read more
Three spheres, three shadings, a pattern
In this exercise, we experience different ways to create a shadow as we had already done in a previous lesson. In this case we … Read more