Tangles shaded
To continue our work about gradients, with the students of grade 8, we have created this drawing of entwined ribbons. The drawing is made in … Read more
Exercises in shade and gradations to the new folders
In classes of 8th grade we started to practice with the shades and gradations in the drawings that will be used for the cover of … Read more
Inspired by Caspar David Friedrich
Giulia D. With students of grade9 (classi terze) we studied the Romantic Painters of 19th-Century, like Turner, Delacroix, Gericault and Friedrich. After the Romanticism lesson … Read more
Face proportions
Stelina K. Following the proportions in the figure below and my instructions on the blackboard, every student drew his own character! They didn’t copy a … Read more
Striped bottles and vases
michela l. Another exercise in light and shade for classes 2 (grade 7-8), made with colored pencils. When the bottles and jars are colorful, they are … Read more
Zentangle hand on a value background
With students of Class 2A we did the same exercise of the previous post with Zentangle Flower, but we tried another subject: every students decorated … Read more
Three ways to shade
Students in the grade7 (classe 2B) have tried three different types of shading with a pencil: 1) HATCHING: with different pressure of the pencil, 2) … Read more
Silhouette on colorful gradation
Student of grade 9 (class 3B), learned to use acrylic colours, mixing them to get colour gradations. Then they painted a black silhouette on the … Read more
Zentangle flowers with tempera-value background
an interesting composition! michele s. In the class 2B we have done this exercise in three steps: 1) first we drawn the flower with a … Read more
Folders for drawings – grade 7
This folder-project is for the sudents of grade 7, who are studying the value of shadows and lights, the shading applied to objects, and … Read more
Flags with lights and shadows
Another exercise to practice the right position of lights and shadows, with a sideward source of light. We used the same technique of our previous … 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