Pointillism and primary colours
1st sessionIntroduction to Pointillism
In the first session, we went to the I.C.T. classroom to look at some Seurat’s works so pupils could distinguish how looking at Seurat’s paintings from far away paintings look like a normal painting but looking at them closer are actually made of lots and lots of dots.
In the next slide can be seen the painting
we will be working on it.
Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte.
Another Seurat’s paintings where kids can appreciate the dots.
Other paintings done by kids (not from my pupils)
used as a visual aid.
2nd session
During this session we refreshed some ideas about pointillism. Some students draw with chalk the primary colours on the blackbloard. Other ones, were mixing primary colours to achieve orange, purple, green,... on a big white paper.
Then a “guarro paper” was given out containing a small portion of the paint in question.
HANDS ON
A lot of markers were placed on some tables, T told Ss only mixing two colours in the same are area (delimited by lines).
At the beginning, Ss asked to the T the following question: “Do these colours match?”. After 20’ some of them knew quite well how to combine colours.
For instance, when colouring the trunk of a tree: Ss mixed: dark brown with light brown or light brown with orange.
A light filled classroom
Some works already finished(movie)
3rd session
Most of the pupils finished their works, the ones who didn’t, have finished them at home.
The project is over.
All the works have been hung in
the corridor of the school.