Optical illusion cube
Is it a small cube in a room or a large cube that lacks one corner? Is easier to draw this cube, rather than to describe … Read more
Prints inspired by the German Expressionist group “Die Brücke”
With pupils in Year 9 (classe 3) we made some lovely prints inspired by the German Expressionist group “Die Brücke”. We have carved small plates … Read more
Playing with Pollock dripping
It’s just an on-line game to paint like Jackson Pollock with his DRIPPING technique! Your student can try to paint in few second his painting in “Pollock … Read more
Coil vase with a ‘not round’ base
Starting from any shape as base of the vase, you can model a vase not round, by growing as a free shape in your hands. … Read more
Small Jewelry Polymer Clay
Do you know “Fimo” or “Cernit”? It’ a polymer clay that you can cook in the owen at 110°C. With students of Grade 7-8 can … Read more
Pop-up Colosseum
I thought about an ancient (or modern ) architecture realized in 3D with pop-up cardboard: was a challenge for me understand how to realize a … Read more
Stop Motions inspired by Aardman Animations
This Stop motion is inspired by the great works of Aardman Studios, a British animation studio based in Bristol. The studio is known for films … Read more
Ceramic slab boxes
We used the slab technique for make these boxes. After the first fire we painted with engobe colours and then we glaze them. With second … Read more
Terracotta Army printed with foam
Still about China, what better way to reproduce the huge Terracotta Army of Xi’an, except through a printing technique? We used the most simple and … 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
Mixed Media Portrait inspired by Barry McGee!
Inspired by the works of Barry McGee, we have made some portraits and we have combined them with surfaces made at collage in style “optical … Read more
AZION…ARTI: another amazing italian Art Ed Blog
Here another new Art Blog from an Italian art teacher! She is Laura Tomasi, we met almost 30 years ago at the Secondary Art School … Read more