Creativity in the classroom and in life
The figure in the Avant-garde Art was represented in many different ways and with different techniques. Students chose some details of works of art and copied the figures, imitating style and technique of the artists. Matisse Cezanne Leger Degas Picasso Gauguin Depero Kirchner Nolde Segantini
From an idea of the blog Art of Apex High School, I used a mask in PhotoShop to create crazy scribble line portraits. The technique is simple to … Read more
Some of my photographs, inspired by primary colours. Could be a funny and useful homework for students, like a treasure hunt! CYAN GIALLO MAGENTA
I used pizza’s box like a potential canvas substitute and i covered it with newspaper. I drew some details of common objects with a black marker, filling … Read more
We started copying a city landscape from an Egon Schiele’s work of art. His technique is black crayon and oil painting on canvan. To imitate the … Read more
These days I’m visiting the Art Department of Sir Thomas Picton Schoolin Haverfordwest and I’m learning a lot of useful techniques, lessons, systems and creations … Read more
Here some landscape’s copies painting with acrylic paint by grade 8 students (seconda media).
A simple Pop-Up that is possible to make with children: the “Jazz band” is a stair cut from an old score, you just follow the … Read more
My son Paolo made this little video with iMovie. He did it all by himself and I thought it might be interesting to boys of … Read more
I tried the Anamorphosis technique in my courtyard for a 3D effect, It’s very funny! I prepared a little project on paper and I used … Read more
Old pages and a black ink pen is all that we need for draw. The houses are from different countries, the style and the features … Read more
A simple exercise to learn lights, shadow and colour shades. You draw some shapes like bottles, spheres, cups, cylinders and then you colour them with … Read more