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
Christmas cards on scraps of map
Inspired by the works of Rachel Ann Austin, I realized some Christmas cards drawing on pieces of maps (white cardboard sizes 10x20cm, map scrap size 6x6cm). … Read more
Discover the hidden poems
On a page of an old book you draw any object and choose some word in order to create a little poem… You’ll be surprised … Read more
Queen Elizabeth I: the story in 2 minutes
Here is a video created by Paolo and Laura ( two of my children…). Laura’s homework was to create some project about the Queen Elizabeth … Read more
Inspired by the Kandinsky’s landscapes
From a photo of a simple landscape, I tried to inspire my paintings in the style of Kandinsky. He painted many landscapes, where it is … Read more
Ancient portrait with mixed media
This portrait of the King Henry VIII was copied from the original picture with a pencil on a white sheet, then it was colored and … Read more
Modigliani style with oil pastels
Modigliani’s portraits are so characteristic that it is easy to copy them! Here is a simple technique with pencil, oil pastels and baby oil … Read more
Lights and shadows sharp
With the students of grade 8 (classe seconda B) we worked on the lights and shadows in the photograph. With the tracing paper and colored … Read more
Inspired by Caspar David Friedrich
Giulia D. With students of grade9 (classi terze) we studied the Romantic Painters of 19th-Century, like Turner, Delacroix, Gericault and Friedrich. After the Romanticism lesson … Read more
Face proportions
Stelina K. Following the proportions in the figure below and my instructions on the blackboard, every student drew his own character! They didn’t copy a … Read more