Artists: Year 6 students, 2020
Medium: Various
Year 6 students explore and respond to the drawing and painting techniques of stippling and pointillism in this exhibition.
Inspired by artist Georges Seurat, they have experimented with the placement of complementary colours and grey scale dots to produce 2D artworks with tone and the illusion of depth.
Utilising a variety of visual art media and digital art apps, the students created original landscapes, cityscapes and abstract compositions.
The artwork in this exhibition was produced during a period of off-campus learning.
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The artistic process
Here, four student artists explain the thought and creative processes they used to develop their artwork.
“I used many complimentary colours to make different objects in picture pop. The visual rhythm would be a medium rhythm because, even though the piece has many individual strokes, they are all bunched together to then form a bigger picture. Your eyes should catch the sun first as it is the middle point and the brightest point, then move up towards the sunrise and palm trees. Originally, I was going to make the trees black, but I added the green to contrast with the red sky. The picture is brought together by the mostly black silhouette because it is very simple, unlike the gradient and strong colours of the rest of the piece.”
Alexandra
“I used less dots to make a lighter tone and more dots in one spot to make a shadow. It has a strong meaning of how something powerful can take over.”
Larz
“This image represents the chaos and everything that goes around us. I was looking at Pointillism landscape artworks for inspiration.”
Raunak
“I really enjoyed being able to use colour as I think it gives lots of depth. I used tonal variation to make it appear as if the light is coming from the right-hand side of the picture.”
Toby
