secondary school

Scribble line portrait

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

Leaves printed with bleach

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

Tempera landscapes

Here some landscape’s copies painting with acrylic paint by grade 8 students (seconda media).

Jazz band Pop-Up

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

how to draw a figure

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

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