Written with the Rainbow
On watercolor paper you can write with the water and drop the colours with the eyedropper. I used colored inks, but you can also use liquid watercolors.
Value exercise
I used simple cardboards, black and coloured, even sheets of coloured papers could be good. First, I drawn the scrolls on the coloured cardboards with … Read more
Proportion of the face and value
The faces were drawn in pencil on a grid, following certain proportions. The second step was to add lights and shadows to the drawings, to … Read more
Silhouette in backlight
With students of year 8 we painted with tempera, using only the primary colors and mixing them in order to obtain a chromatic gradation. In … Read more
Value landscapes
To continue our journey to discover the colors, with the year 7 classes, we painted landscapes in tempera tonal gradation. The forms that become more … Read more
Bas-reliefs of Romanesque art
Color gradations reveal the mysterious and fantastic forms of medieval, mythical animals and monsters carved by the skilled hands of ancient sculptors. Students of Year … Read more
Still-life striped
with pupils of grade 8 we are experiencing different ways to create shadows, one of which is to get the nuances simply by varying the … Read more