• Pencil

• Ruler

• Markers

• Paint and brush

• Colored pencils

• Chalk or oil pastels

• Crayons

1. Using your pencil and ruler, make geometric shapes on your paper like squares and triangles.

2. Using at least 3 different drawing media, like colored pencils, chalk pastels and crayons, begin coloring your shapes.

If you are right handed, begin on the top left corner with any one of your selected media.

3. Try to change colors and drawing media every time you move from one shape to the other. For example, if you started with colored pencil, use crayon on the next shape.

5. If you are using paint, protect your desk or surface.

7. As you work, challenge yourself to try interesting color combinations and materials.

When complete, view your finished artwork from different artwork and lighting to see the different surface finishes in more detail.

Marco Casentini (b. 1961) is a contemporary Italian painter based in California.

The painting Beverly Hills Women is one example in which the artist’s heightened awareness of his surroundings produces an inimitable sequence of geometric layering and luminosity that extends beyond the confines of the canvas. His flat treatment of paint on the surface serves as the bond for these stratums of opaque, glossy and twinkling square finishes. Accompanied by vibrant colors, the overlapping geometries generate visual cadences throughout the work which beckons us to visually peel each form away to reveal the one beneath or reconfigure them as a whole. The artist offers us a playful and refreshing take on the ways that we see our external environment.