Figure’s silhouette: 22 worksheets
22 different outlines of figures in pdf, ready to be used for different activities. The topic is about the relationship between figure and background in … Read more
Painting the background to create the figure
Is fascinating to understand the relationship between figure and background in a picture: did you know that our brain cannot perceive the figure and the … Read more
Tonal and chromatic gradations for a landscape
The tonal gradations are made by adding white or black to a color. In this way we work on light and dark shades of that … Read more
Silhouette on tonal gradations
A simple exercise that has always a great success, is the painting of a silhouette that stands out against a background painted in gradation. In … Read more
Collaborative project: the book ‘s cover
In collaboration with the literature teacher, a 7th grade class, has worked in small groups to create the covers of some short stories. The stories, … Read more
Texture T-shirt
We have created many graphic textures to decorate a small T-shirt made of paper! Here are the custom shirts made by students of grade 6th, … Read more
Lines forming a three-dimensional tree
With the simple combination of parallel lines we can give the impression of three-dimensionality. We did this exercise in the 6th grade classes to demonstrate … Read more
Wanderer above the Sea of…?
In the wonderful Romantic work of art “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” painted in 1817 by Caspar David Friedrich, a man looks out from … Read more
Symmetrical Monsters
After the lesson on bilateral symmetry, we created these symmetrical monsters. With a piece of cardboard folded in half, scissors, glue, markers and a bit … Read more
Positive and negative space: silhouettes in mixed media
It ‘s very easy to identify the positive space of an image (that occupied by the subject), and at the same time identify the negative … Read more
Gradations and silhouettes with Gimp
After the lesson of the landscape in gradation designed with the open source program Gimp2, we have developed a more elaborate landscape, using gradients of … Read more
The Romanticism of Friedrich
We have studied the works of a great artist of the Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich, with students in the 9th grade. They have revised his … Read more