SPRING WORKSHOP: Rome 2019

ROME

Drawing Workshop, spring 2019

What I learned as a Teacher?

1. Observation: Easy to teach, difficult to learn because regards Concentration, that is an important part of the human Intelligence. If you improve your Concentration, without being distracted from other thoughts (mainly: too much goals, daily commitments, bad feelings etc) you will immediately establish the base of your sketch, resolving problems before starting to draw.

2. Goals: One clear goal is much much better than many.
If you are teaching how to give Volume, how to improve the Silhouette, how to choose your color palette, just concentrate all the effort on this goal, pushing your students to not be distracted by other difficulties they will encountered during the process!
This is essential to reach the success!

3. Appeal and Balance: Every exercise could be boring if you don't spice up, adding an interesting way to proceed and a challenge.
Balance_Anyway, if the subject or the task is too complicated, students could be confuse and discouraged. Just balance it, choosing a simple perspective, if the exercise regards how to use value or color, or an intriguing view if the exercises aims to create interesting distortion.
Spice it up_Are you teaching how to synthesize the complexity of "that impossible 17th century church facade"? Give them a short amount of time to finish it, or
Do you want to push your student to create more dynamic sketches? Let them draw people in real life, telling him to exaggerate their action as if they were drawing theater actors, etc.

4. Know your goal as a teacher. Well, that's nothing new, but you need to create a certain empathy with your student and know exactly why you want to teach.
You can't be the best friend of the student, neither the student is your son. You have that "middle role" between the know and unknown (always regarding your skills), you have the duty to transmit your knowledge so that the student can grow on his own.
A Teacher must demonstrate sureness and honesty in the same time:
Sureness: you can help your student to give him a good structured base where he can feels confident
and at the same time you must be honest.
Honest: if you don't know something you have to admit that, but nonetheless, try to find a solution to help him according to you skill.

Teaching help you to improve:
-Concentration and Observation (intelligence);
-Clear communication of a concept (intelligence);
-Create better relation with other, knowing better yourself (empathy);
-Help others to grow on their own (empathy)
and much more...

Tell me about you experience as a teacher, what you learn about it and what you want to improve!

Gara Sociale alla Lupa Capitolina

Beautiful day at Lupa Capitolina, roman arch society. Everything went as italian way is known: program changes, delays, some last minute changes, a lot of sun, a lot of chatting and super super good food! What else?  

Bellissima giornata di sole al campo di tiro alla Lupa Capitolina, società romana di tiro con l'arco.
Per la gara sociale tutto è stato fatto alla maniera italiana: cambi di programma, ritardi, un pò di cambiamenti dell'ultimo minuto, tanto sole, tante risa, tante chiacchiere e buonissimo cibo!

USK 10x10 ROME

 

 

USK 10X10 ROME
Hi sketchers!
I'm just finished my participation for this year for 10x10 Usk. It was an amazing experience, as usual.
I love to teach and transmit my passion about drawing, see my students grow and become more confident with their skill!
Someone discovers a new way to express themselves, someone increases their capacity in observation, learning how to synthesize the reality.

Structured mind
Many of them need time, a lot of time, to finish a sketch.In many cases this is a problem of chaotic mind, where a lot of questions and problems just invaded the land, bringing confusion.
If the mind is clear and the right questions (but specially the right number) came one at a time, the student is more relaxed.

He just need to focus the goal and develop the capacity to create the most inherent questions to go beyond the obstacles.

So give an example of structured mind is one of my main purpose when I'm teaching.
Teaching the style it's a process that I simply call "a matter of time", instead create a "structured mind" is something that I call "forever", it is a strong base where anyone could develop, step by step, their own style.

Hula Hoop evening

The last evening of Hula Hoop model was yesterday.
The Pigneto district asked to Hula Hop association to do an open door performance while some street poets acted their poetry.
It was a really good experience, we were sorrounded by visual and sonar stimulus.The model was inspired by "The fifth elements", she wore Milla Jovovich's costume.
The better thing was the possibility to create 360° sketches because the model posed in the centre of the square.
I love move around the model and sketch the same pose (10 mn poses) from many point of view!

Hula Hoop evening

Thanks to friend, I found this nice club in Rome, "Hula Hop, that organizes artistic event as Milonga and Figure Drawing.
Is an association managed by artists and graphic designer who take care to promote music, painting, dance etc.
The model performed on 10 minute poses. For me it is too much time, so I enjoyed drawing the whole scene and the other sketchers!

HOMELESS

HOMELESS vs WITH HOME

Colosseo

Sunny morning

In Rome the winter sun is incredible hot.
You could stay all the morning sketching in the street wearing light dresses.
Some street artists play guitar and singing old Italian songs.
Tourists walking lazily admiring the ancient ruin of Roman Forum.

INside the kitchen

I love to draw kitchens. These kind of locations have a deep relation with the people, they remark their attitude, their habits
Moreover the kitchen is the most warm place in the house, physically and spiritually speaking, and it has an interesting balance between detail and emptiness.

Museo Barracco

Lo sketchcrawl internazionale si è tenuto al caldo, dentro le aule del Museo Barracco.
Visto le piccole dimensioni del museo, il gruppo ha chiesto il permesso alla direttrice, che gentilmente ha ben accolto gli sketchari, rimasti fino a fine chiusura a disegnare i reperti egiziani e romani.

Isola Tiberina

Welcome back Colors

Morning with friends!

Rome is a fantastic city to draw because it offers a lot of different subjects.

If you love to draw cars, people, architecture, animals, statues... Rome has all of it, all condensed in one place!

Torlonia

Going to the park, start to drawing with my cousin and see the Reality through new eyes,

what a beautiful time to spend with her!

Sketchcrawl

Sketchcrawl di Luglio

indoor view of the winebar

wine bar outdoor

lunching time

relaxing time..

thanks to all for the beautiful day!

Wwoof in action!

Eccomi nuovamente dopo mesi. Mancandomi un supporto tecnologico ho difficoltà a postare con più frequenza.
Sono in viaggio nelle aziende agricole tramite l'associazione wwoof.
Ho occasione di vedere posti meravigliosi a livello naturalistico, anche se poi il mio disegno è più incline a riprendere architetture, interni e persone.
Qui stavo a Viterbo, alla fattoria biodinamica. La cucina è lineare, professionale, con tutti i timbri asl possibili.
La proprietaria è una donna deliziosa, che accoglie chiunque tra le sue braccia come se ti conoscesse da sempre!

Sketching with Luis

At Tiberina Island, sketching with Luis and the Roma sketchcrawl group!
Beautiful day, nonetheless the rain :)

90 vs 60

Walking in Rome..I started the first sketch on 90, bus then I finished the same on 60 bus. Thinks happen while you go at work!