Elements of Art Design Line Shape Space Colour

Elements of Art & Design Line Shape Space Colour Value Texture Form

Pointillism… MATERIALS… Construction paper (variety of colours) Circle Templates & white pencil crayon Scissors cotton swabs plates for palettes liquid tempera paint (white, then other colour choices for details) • Newspapers OR old file folders as placemats to protect desks • • •

Pointillism… “I Can” Skills… ü ü Create a HORIZON LINE using dots Use a new tool to apply paint Add details using DOTS Tell about my picture made of DOTS

CONNECT… Georges Seurat & Pointillism is the use of small, distinct dots of pure colour to create an image. Pointillism is a style that was developed in the late 19 th century in France. Georges Seurat is famous for the paintings he created while developing this style. 1859 -1891

La Seine à la Grande Jatte The Seine and la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat Springtime 1888, -Oil on canvas 1888, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

The Circus The. Seurat Circus By Georges 1890 -91 1891, Oil on canvas

Seurat and Pointillism… Looking CLOSE-UP Details from ‘The Circus’ by Georges Seurat; 1890 -91

Stippling (dots of one pigment/hue) -from “The Castle Builder” by Dennis Nolan

Stippling -from “The Castle Builder” by Dennis Nolan