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
Hunting to the primary colours in your life
Some of my photographs, inspired by primary colours. Could be a funny and useful homework for students, like a treasure hunt! CYAN GIALLO MAGENTA
Pizza’s box inspired by Michael Craig-Martin
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
Landscapes inspired by Egon Schiele
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
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
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