ART WITH MRS H!: WHAT'S THE POINT?

Time to get dotty. . . with pens, paint and Pointillism, (and VERY small paper) A7 to be precise! Why? Because it took Georges Seurat nearly two years to complete his painting, so we needed to scale right down in what little time we had!

Be enchanted by these colourful little scenes and then marvel at how the children made them, with only the primary colours - how clever are they! Yes I do have several favourites, but couldn't possibly display every piece of work from all the classes in my schools, but you all did so well - each little picture was so different.

The children initially experimented with dots, by creating an area that was dark and an area that was light, simply by placing their dots close together (like a really crowded party) or far apart (like one where the invites didn't go out). They later referenced this technique in their little compositions, as you will see from the many green tones they managed to create.

We talked about the Pointillism technique and looked at the painting 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' by Georges Seurat. The children were shown a short film where the camera zoomed right in on the centre of this painting, so that they could see just how it was built up, with dots of pure colour, placed side by side to make the other colours.

The pupils then tried to make their own colours, using just the primary colours and when they stepped back from their own work and realised that they had infact made green, orange, purple or brown were, understandably, pretty chuffed with themselves - confident individuals I'd say! Yes, there may even have been one or two triumphant air punches . . and why not! Admire their work below and punch the air yourself!

The test piece above I think looks like the back and seat of a chair - would be a great design!

Glorious summery hills starting to emerge. . .

The children loved seeing the photographs I took on my phone, where I zoomed in on their test colours.

This pupil has used all three primary colours to make a good brown for their tree trunk.

This girl had previously drawn the lion, when we looked at shape and animals and wanted to try the Pointillism technique with it this time.

I think this little tree above might be a favourite!

The pupil above worked really hard and created a very delicate little shadow on the hill, for the tree. This was something I had pointed out in my demonstration, that some pupils may like to try.

I really like the dark green forming on this hill.

The pupil above has shown how they can use the technique of spacing the dots out to make an area look lighter and closer together to make an area look darker.

Here is another favourite, I really like the contrast betwen the very dark hill and the lovely light green of the tree.

Here is a lovely tree with yellow leaves, turning green below - work in progress!

A table of four hard working boys created the pictures above - great team effort! One of them finished off with the image below - another favourite, he was concentrating so hard to get that great purple sky - well done!

More favourites! So many different greens in the picture above and fabulous shadows too and lovely shadows for the three little trees below too!

This one above is light and airy and very effective.

Now we have some pictures where the pupils used paint, again just the primary colours, but using cotton buds instead of a paintbrush. One boy was creating a ploughed field below and managed to make some great browns for the soil.