Our foray into pointillism was piqued by reading Katie's Sunday Afternoon
. Bear loves these books about Katie who can go through a frame and enter a painting.
The idea of pointillism is not to mix colors. This allows for optical mixing - your eye mixes the colors as it sees the two colors next to each other. Georges Seurat began this art movement. One of his famous paintings is An Afternoon at La Grande Jatte. This painting took him two years to finish.
If you scroll down on this page, you can see a close up of part of the painting that shows the dots of paint.
Here is a You Tube video that shows some of Seurat's work.
Here is a You Tube video that shows some of Seurat's work.
I gave Bear a Seurat coloring page. I let her paint in the picture with the end of a pencil (the eraser side).
She didn't finish and had no desire to try her own creation with dot painting.
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Those look like good books.
ReplyDeleteI have to try these books again this year - maybe we will have better luck. I think q-tips might have generated more enthusiasm - at least here daughter loves painting with q-tips.
ReplyDeleteI had planned to use q-tips but when I went to get some from the bathroom, I realized we were out!
ReplyDeleteI have the book so I would like to do this in the New Year. But I doubt that JC will want to finish it either. It's worth a try.
ReplyDeleteLOVE Seurat. May I ask where you got the coloring page?
ReplyDeleteI just googled Georges Seurat coloring pages.
ReplyDeleteThe one we ended up using is here http://scrapcoloring.com/texts/georges-seurat
but I also printed out http://www.supercoloring.com/pages/bathers-at-asnieres-by-georges-seurat/.
I am going to have to get this book for my children. They are a bit older they would love to try this out. I am not artistic at all, this looks doable with the q-tips:)Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteoh neat! I will try and see if we have that book at my library, great art activitiy :)
ReplyDeleteThe book selection sounds like something we would really love to read. I will have to look for it at the library. We have done q-tip paintings like that, but never to color in a picture. We will have to give that a try. Thank you for linking up to stART!!
ReplyDeleteWe have Katie and the Mona Lisa and love it.This book looks great too!
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(PS again... would LOVE for you to link up to Kids Get Crafty, this is right up my street!!)
(thank you, will stumble this!!)
ReplyDeleteA coloring page is a great place to start having a child layer color. This looks great.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking to Read.Explore.Learn.
I just found this through pinterest, after a mention on a blog post of mine, that someone had seen something like it there - don't know how I missed this through stART, but I'm happy to find the book recommendation now!
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