Year 6 have been learning about the French, 19th Century artist, Georges Seurat and his neo-impressionist movement: Pointillism
When we found out how Seurat used tiny individual dots of paint to create his stunning paintings, we were impressed, yet when we learned how he only used the three primary colours to do so, we were pretty intrigued to say the least! The idea of 'optical mixing' was new to us all, and so we tested out this method using dots of two primary colours placed alongside eachother to create a secondary colour. We found that the further away we stood from our colour wheels, the more our eyes were able to mix the two colours together to create green, orange or purple!

We also looked at how our dots of colour were much larger than Seurat's due to the different painting tools used and understood that had we used smaller points of colour, we wouldn't have to stand as far away for optical mixing to occur. Alongside this, we saw how Seurat created shading within his paintings. Placing many dots close together create a darker shade, compared to those which are spread out appearing lighter.