Children’s Workshop by Alice Casana

After last fall’s painting workshop, where the young artists observed and painted large flowers to then offer the square a huge bouquet, we are getting ready this spring for a new challenge.

This time, children will be invited to discover how to draw emotions. We’ll understand how the eyes, the mouth, the head move… and how the nose instead remains fixed and unaware. With these basics, we will paint large portraits of adults that, through various suspended frames, will become the center of observation for the children.

Then there will be a second, more abstract part of the workshop, where we will be experimenting with various materials (including shaving foam!). We will create colorful prints that will complement the portraits through the collage technique.

Workshop dates:

Friday, May 10, from 4:30 PM to 7 PM

Saturday, May 11, from 10:30 AM to 1 PM

Sunday, May 12, from 4 PM to 6:30 PM

Children aged 6 to 12

(Max 12 children per day)

To book your spot, send an email to:

info@spazio-supernova.com

Coloriamo la Piazza is a kids workshop of three days organised by Alice Casana.

During each of these days, a group of 10 children aged 5 to 10 were invited to explore watercolor techniques. With this workshop, we played with pigments and water, discovering the wonderful effects that can be created on paper. We worked on a larger scale with professional materials so that the children could discover all their potential.

Each child chose a fresh flower from those we provided. We give them a vase and invited them to observe it thoroughly, perhaps like they have never done before. Together, we obeserved the shades of color, its shapes, its peculiarities, and even its imperfections so that they could paint not a generic flower but the specific one they had chosen. In this way the children discovered that by observing and painting it, they would have been able to enter into symbiosis with that flower!

We ensured that the drawing conveyed these emotions, hoping to bring out the little artist in each of them. At the end of the workshop all the children who participated in the workshop were invited to place their drawings in a huge bouquet that colored the Piazza of Santa Maria in Trastevere, and we adults toasted to their masterpiece!

Alice Casana was born and raised in Milan, after wandering a bit, she settled in Rome because she considers it the most beautiful city in the world. Trastevere is the neighborhood where, for about ten years, she has chosen to live and work.

She spent her childhood under the large tables of illustrators who, to keep her quiet, handed her brushes and colored pencils. Since then, she has never stopped painting. She enjoys alternating between large mural paintings, fabric painting, and creating worlds made of splashes of color on paper.

Currently, she is writing and illustrating a children’s story set between Trastevere and a mysterious planet.