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Pointillism Art for Kids with Seurat

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I do not consider myself an artist, but I really enjoy doing art with my kids. It stretches me and pushes me, and I am getting better! This week we learned pointillism art by studying the painter Georges Seurat.

Pointillism Art with Georges Seurat

To start the Georges Seurat art lesson, I had to look up the pronunciation of his name. (Yeah, I don’t speak French!)

Who is Georges Seurat?

Seurat is a French post impressionist artist from the 1800’s. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, together are known for devising the painting technique of pointillism.  This new method of painting actually began a new movement in art called Neo-impressionism.

What is Pointillism?

Pointillism art is done with oil paints and is basically just painting with dots. But in a more complicated description, it is a technique where you do not mix the pigments of color but instead have varying dots of color that require the viewer to combine the colors. Their mind and eye do it for them.

Other artists who painted using the pointillist style include: Vincent Van Gogh, Maximilien Luce, Henri-Edmond Cross, Camille Pissarro and Théo van Rysselberghe.

We tried it out on our art projects and loved the look of it!

Seurat eiffel tower art project

For our Seurat art study, I printed and laminated about 10 different paintings of his. we talked about his life a bit and read some books about him. Then we worked on recreating art in his style.

q-tip pointillism

Some of us chose to imitate one of his paintings and some of us chose to do our own thing.

Seurat pointillism art

We started by sketching out what we wanted to draw then painted it in with painted dots using q-tips. It is a time-consuming project, but really a lot of fun!

Pointillism with Georges Seurat

 

Kids Books on Georges Seurat

Kids Books on Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat: Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists, by Mike Venezia

Sunday with Seurat (board book), by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober

Make a Masterpiece- Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Dover Activity Book)

Seurat Art Stickers

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Tunnel Book: Take a Peek at Seurat’s Masterpiece! (Take a Peek series) by Joan Sommers

Katie and the Bathers by James Mayhew

Splat! Another Messy Sunday by Lin Oliver

Check out some of our other Artist Study Posts:

Warhol, Kandinsky, Klimt, Arcimboldo, Klee, Cézanne, Picasso, Monet, Pollock, Lichtenstein

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  1. I had not considered teaching pointillism in our homeschool art until seeing this post. There’s a local artist where we live that my son and I have watched a couple times but we haven’t tried it ourselves. Thank you for the inspiration to try it out.

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