An “explosion book” to show your emotion!
To create this “EXPLOSION BOOK” with the 6th grade students we reflected on our emotions asking ourselves if it is possible to REPRESENT an emotion … Read more
Spring Landscape in One Point Perspective
Let’s re-propose the landscape that we can see in this video tutorial in a new spring version: We draw the same sequence of lines starting … Read more
Rainbow Umbrellas: mixed media drawing with video tutorial
With 6th grade students we made this mixed media drawing that summarizes the knowledge learned so far about the chromatic circle, the achromatic colors and … Read more
Small Value Scale Landscapes with video tutorial
These small landscapes have been painted with watercolors, by 7th-grade students after a lesson about landscape and the representation of space with value scale. Here … Read more
Tassellation with Animals
After having watched this interesting video of Arte… in pratica del canale circoloarci hm I proposed the activity with tessellations to the 6th-grade students. We … Read more
Cubist Drawing with video tutorial
You need just a drawing paper, some colored pencils and watercolors to create this still life in the style of CUBISM. Cubism was a revolutionary new … Read more
Girl with rainbow fan and video tutorial
Here an idea to work on the color wheel and the color theory with watercolors. A fan with the colors of the rainbow held by … 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
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
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
Video Tutorial: Cubism with pencils and coffee
You need just a drawing paper, some colored pencils and an espresso ( a very short coffee) to create this still life in the style … Read more