Last OP Art of the Year!

Our 3rd graders have been working hard on their OP art circle projects, I was so impressed I took lots of pictures of them! We began by making a grid, then added about four circles that will pop out at you and students chose their alternating colors themselves. I was really impressed how quickly everyone caught on and look at the great results!

Second Grade OP Art

Second graders are just beginning to learn about OP Art this year.  We will be looking at two projects to further study how optical illusions can be created by using colors, lines, and shapes.  For this lesson, we traced our hands and created straight lines to the hand, then bent the lines as they go across the hand.  This is a pretty neat way to make the hand look like it's popping out at you!  Here are some finished projects.

Op Art

This month our 5th graders have been taking a closer look at Optical Illusions in artwork.  Thanks to some pretty cool Ideas I found on the net, here's what we came up with!

Original lesson found from Art with Mr. E