Pointillism

For reading a couple weeks ago, our students read the story "The Dot" about a little girl who created a series of paintings of dots for an art class.  After reading the story, we made a connection to Georges Seurat and pointillism.  Our students were amazed that it took Georges Seurat two years and over 3million dots to create his famous park scene.  With the background set, our students drew and painted a picture as if they were Georges Seurat - only using dots, not brush strokes.  They loved the project so much.  With their painting complete, the students wrote a short paragraph telling about their painting - describing it, telling how they created it, and/or what they learned about Seurat.  Our pointillism art gallery turned out super cute!  Here is a portion of the art gallery.  (It is in our center hallway which isn't very wide so I could get a picture of the whole thing.)