In this drawing activity students of Grade 8th worked on design and the function of object. We designed a sneaker starting using a template you can buy here below in order to create a personal and … [Read more...]
Video Tutorial: Value Cubes Project
January 24, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Another great video tutorial inspired by an idea of arteascuola, realized by Chad Brown. Following the video you can paint these cubes in value scales. Every step is explained and shown in a very … [Read more...]
15 Christmas Templates
December 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
15 different silhouettes of Christmas decorations in 3 printable pdf worksheets. You can decorate the templates in different ways, with colored patterns, zentangle, or use them as decorations for the … [Read more...]
Symmetrical Robot: 3 worksheets
May 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
After the capitals and the insects we created the symmetrical robots, drawing the strangest and most immaginative robots. To realize this drawing we first drew half robot on half sheet of tracing … [Read more...]
Shoe Design
April 11, 2018 by 2 Comments
After designing chairs, table lamps and wall clocks I had the idea of designing a shoe. With my students of 8th Grade I had a lesson about the history and evolution of Design. We have looked at some … [Read more...]
Shoe Design: 2 worksheets
April 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Two printable worksheets ready to be completed with a design of two different kind of shoes. The template of a décolleté and of a trainer are ready to be drawn with a pencil and colored with colored … [Read more...]
Restore ancient Greek vases
September 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Before being a teacher I worked as a restorer in many Italian cities and I completed my restoration study at the National School of Restoration in Florence. A damaged work of art for a restorer, is … [Read more...]
Drawing natural textures for a gown
April 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
To create these elegant gowns we copied details of natural textures from some pictures. In the classes of grade 6th we observed lots of textures, either natural than artificial and we analysed them in … [Read more...]
Design a wall clock: worksheets
March 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
We’ve already designed a chair and a table lamp in some previous lessons, and this time we deal with a new object: we have to design a wall clock, taking its specific functions into consideration … [Read more...]
Fashion design with Textures: worksheets and 5 activities
January 4, 2017 by 3 Comments
The drawings for these activities are inspired by Scott Nylund’s work, an american illustrator and fashion designer . I really like his clean and graceful style and I found it suitable for working on … [Read more...]
