Art Inspiration - Georges Seurat

The next artist that the kids learnt about was Georges Seurat and the painting technique pointillism. We started by watching a couple of youtube clips about him and his artworks. The first one was Artrageous with Nate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DX5MhkfYQ&feature=youtu.be

The next one I came across when my friend Tamara mentioned that her kids had been obsessed with watching Art with Mati and Dada. They had watched clips on all the artists I had already taught the kids. It is a cartoon so it engaged Alexander more but didn't go into as much detail as the other videos. Daniel wasn't as keen on it which was cool to hear. He was really enjoying the information side of the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDW4wSTm-V4

We spoke about pointillism and how it is done by using lots of little dots that up close you see as dots but far away the dots trick the eye to make a picture and also mix the colours.
We then headed outside to the front lawn. I made some makeshift easels using the table and one of the bins and stuck some paper onto them. Each of the kids got a paper plate with the primary paint colours on it and ear buds to use in the paints. 

Using the inspiration from the Art with Mati and Dada the kids decided to make butterflies using pointillism. We first drew an outline of a butterfly. Then the kids started to dot with their earbuds. Daniel really grasped the concept and did a great job at dotting his butterfly to mix the colours and make the new colours. Eliza and Alexander lost interest in dotting at times and painted with the earbud instead. When reminded they would start to dot again.

Concentration tongue

It was a great activity too to explore colour mixing for Alexander.

I loved Daniel's finished product. You can see how the different coloured dots are blending together to trick the eye and make the butterfly look purple and the centre of the butterfly look brown. 

This one was different but didn't engage the kids as much as the previous art lessons. They didn't want to do more than 1 picture and they did get over doing the dots and started to paint with the earbuds but they pushed through and finished their pictures.