Making an “Impression”

Resource materials: show paintings of the Impressionist Claude Monet and Post Impressionist Georges Seurat.

Materials and equipment: 8 x 10.5" art paper provided by Art to Remember • pencils • oil pastels or prismacolor sticks.

Step 1: Discussion: Explain the terms impressionism and pointillism. Show students how patches of colors close together are blended by the eye to look like another. Yellow next to blue = green.

Step 2: Decide on the composition that you would like to do in the impressionist style and sketch in guidelines lightly in pencil. You can choose from still life, portrait, landscape, or a floral.

Step 3: Working from light to dark create the background. Use several colors in a variety of shades.

Step 4: : Use a variety of contrasting colors to emphasize your focal point or center of interest.

 

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