That's what Anna has been cheering around the house.
Today we had school (and cub scouts) at home since the school parking lot still has not been plowed.
And if I'm teacher, I get to pick the subject.
So art it is. With a little mix of science and French.
George Seurat and Pointillism.
Now we have something more to see next time we go to Chicago!When two colors are right next to each other your eye mixes them in a process called, "optical mixing." Using optical mixing rather than physical mixing can create a brighter picture. Painting a pointillist piece is a slow and painstaking process. Seurat's famous "A Sunday in the Park on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (more commonly known as "Sunday in the Park"), which covered a wall (81 inches by 120 inches), took him two years to complete. He was known for amazing devotion and concentration. The dots in a pointillist painting can be as small as 1/16 of an inch in diameter! Based on these measurements, "Sunday in the Park" has approximately 3,456,000 dots!
The boys worked for 3 hours on their art projects, dotting away with their pencil erasers.
I think they turned out great and I can't wait to frame them and show them off.
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You are such a cool Mom! Those pictures are awesome!!
those look amazing! how fun, now i need to go buy some paint for ginger so she could do it!
What a cool idea! Their pictures look great!
You are such a good little mommy, let me guess, you "helped" evan with his? But that does seem like something fun to do with the kids. I'll have to remember that one.
Those pictures are fantastic! What fun!
Totally awesome.
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