Pointillism with markers

Working on Pointillism is code for, you better be patient, and patient my artist were. We began our project by watching a video on YouT...

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Sadly I wasn't able to do this project with watercolor and Q-tips. So since they were to do it with markers, I gave them a much smaller drawing surface which I believe helped out tremendously. Nevertheless, this is a very challenging project and I was reminded of the different challenges of doing this project with markers. I am glad I made them buy their own markers for this project because a lot of them absolutely DESTROYED their supplies with tapping too hard. I tried my best to constantly…

Pointillism project with markers I did in eighth grade

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Check out these pointillism projects I have done in the past with students. I love connecting art projects we do to famous artists. This one is obviously very easy to connect to Seurat. The balloons were done in my 4th grade class at Ball Chatham Elementary. We did a watercolor wash in the background before we added dots with crayola markers. This year at I did a pointulism project with kindergarten in the fall. We used Q-tips and tempera paint for the dots. I am planning to do something…

I had a great time doing an art lesson on Georges Seurat. After all, who wouldn't have fun with Pointillism. It is such a fun way of painting, and I love it. The kids loved it also. But let me start with some background on the father of Pointillism himself! Some Facts About Georges Seurat: · He was