Street Art in my back yard
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
Antique houses on old pages
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
Still life with oil pastels
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
Clone Yourself!
I follow the suggestion of DIY’s Blog, and I tried to realize the photograph with Paolo and Laura “clones”. Here my result, not perfect, but … Read more
Mono Printing Workshop
On Monday 12th March I had an interesting Printing Workshop at the Oriel Q – Queens Hall Gallery in Narberth (Pembrokeshire, UK), where we experienced the mono printing and gum arabic … Read more
Landscapes from Modern Art
Here are some copies of works of art, tempera paintings by students of grade 9 (classe terza). The the theme is the landscape in Modern Art.
Caerphilly Castle’s model
Here the photographs of the real Castle of Caerphilly in Cardiff (Wales, UK), Paolo realized a model with cardboard glued on wood and polystyrene base, … Read more
Digital Painting Portrait
Through the Mini Matisse’s blog I found this blog named Know and Tell Crafts by a young blogger named Ty. There were some great tutorials and good … Read more
Tissue-paper window
Inspired to stained-glass windows, my son created this work to represent a St. David’s life episode. He drew a very simple and stylized scene, with … Read more
Website for Word-Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in … Read more
Ceramic: little house to hang
Another idea, very easy to do with thin slab of clay and coloured with glazed engobe colours.
Comics page
Students of 9th grade, after the drawings with facial expressions, created a comics page. This is just a part of a story, to try out … Read more