The magic of Gustav Klimt
With 9th Grade students, we made drawings inspired by the works of Gustav Klimt, the great Viennese artist who best interprets the style of Art … Read more
Still life on package paper with video tutorial
To create these monochrome drawings on brown package paper, my 7th-grade students used three pencils: one white, one brown, and one black. In the video … Read more
Collage inspired by Degas with video tutorial
Inspired by the famous Degas’ Dancers these collages are made with brown package paper and magazine paper. To copy the main lines of the dancer … Read more
Oil pastels: many ideas for a sphere
How many spherical objects do surround us? For this drawing activity, I asked my students to choose an image of a spherical object to copy. … Read more
Painting inspired by Monet’s Waterlilies with video tutorial
To create this mixed media painting inspired by the famous Monet’s Waterlilies we need: a drawing sheet (24×33), a ruler, oil pastels, watercolors, a paintbrush, … Read more
Forms on watercolor background
Similar to a previous activity you can find here, we created this mixed media work, with shaded forms on a watercolor background. The bright colors … Read more
Watercolor landscape inspired by Friedrich with Video Tutorial
With 8th Grade students we studied the Romanticism and its artists. We noticed as Caspar David Friedrich often paints the silhouette of characters who admire … Read more
Random lines
With 6th Grade students we worked on the topic of the LINE drawing many types of interwoven lines: we traced the lines with the pencil … Read more
The mask I would like
I publish here the interesting work of Ilaria Cagno, an Italian art teacher who had the idea to decorate the masks we wear every day … Read more
arteascuola.com among the best Italian educational blogs!
The international web site TWINKL creates educational resources that can be used at each step of a child’s learning journey. They present themself : “Our teacher-created … Read more
Still life on abstract background
In order to understand the light and shadow on a solid, we drew the shades on a group of objects with a pencil. In this … Read more
Value Cut Out
In these abstract drawings, we practiced different techniques of value: shading, crosshatching, and scumbling. Practicing value on white paper we created some free shapes. After … Read more