Edgar Degas

(Art to Remember)

Hello 2nd Grade Horizon Art Students!

Remember Art Smart from last year?

Well, we have some fun for you this year!

Lets work those good memories and work out your brain warming up with this chart first. Do you remember the Elements of Art? Can you name all 6?

Today we are going to work on Line, Shape, and Color and even Size!

Hello 2nd Grade Horizon Art Students!

Remember Art Smart from last year?

Well, we have some fun for you this year!

Lets work those good memories and work out your brain warming up with this chart first. Do you remember the Elements of Art? Can you name all 6?

Today we are going to work on Line, Shape, and Color and even Size!

For this project we want to share these very famous works of art by Edgar Degas! He is famous for his drawings of ballerinas and horses because of their different poses!

Today we will be working with oil pastels and drawing a person in motion. This is very similar to the art tools used for the art work painted by this VERY famous artist named Edgar Degas. These special tools are like special crayons! They can smear and mix together. They can make things blurry which we like at times in our drawings. We used these tools last year at Horizon with our Bridge and Lilly Pad drawings.

First lets look at this very famous art by Edgar Degas! Do you see how the art is very messy and not just like a photograph? That makes it special!

Look at all the ways he draws how their legs and feet are pointed and bent in his art! They each have a very different pose and that makes the painting fun to look at!

Project Sheet

Today’s project will be done in oil pastels, which is one of the ways Degas like to make his art work.

You will make a picture of a person doing something or moving. The person can be running, walking, dancing, kicking, climbing whatever you like as long as they are moving. THINK large STICK-BOT figures not skinny pencil figures. You want your body to also be at least half of the size of the paper !

Oil pastels are similar to using a crayon but different because you can use your finger to blend two colors together to make a new color or layer them together. You can’t do that with a crayon. Do not wipe the oil pastels on your clothes, they could stain them.

**Please do not use a pencil to plan out your design ONLY use a light colored oil Pastel.

Supplies List: Paper, Name tags, Oil Pastels

Step 1 - Using a LIGHT oil pastel like yellow, gray or pink, make shapes of the picture you plan to make.

Step 2 - Start adding colors and more detail on top, these colors can go over each other well and MIX!

Here's another example of using this technique. Its not required to do it this particular way, but don't do stick figures in the end (start with them and then add the shapes to your drawing like circles, triangles or more like a STICK-BOT)!!