Artist Study: Pointillism

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat

We are just beginning our artist study of Vincent Van Gogh.  Today we learned about a technique called pointillism, which is when you use tiny dots to create a larger image.  Van Gogh learned this style of painting early in his career but quickly made it his own by using dashes instead of dots.   The girls thought that this was very neat!

  

After we read for a bit the girls made their own drawings using pointillism!  Have a look!

Jordan (6) wanted to recreate Van Gogh's painting, Self-Portrait with Gray Felt Hat

And this was what Megan (8) came up with.

 

I gave the girls huge sheets of paper and realized after they were done that I was going to have trouble scanning Megan's drawing!  Oops.

I'm still not so sure where this artist study is going or how involved it will become, but so far so good!  We're having fun anyway, and now we can all tell you what pointillism means!