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Pointillist Trees- third/fourth grade

A child’s painting of a tree with a brown trunk and green leaves, and a field of grass under a yellow, dotted sky, reminiscent of Pointillist Trees.

We learned about the artist Georges Seurat by reading Scholastic Art magazine. Students identified and described Pointillist paintings.   They created a Pointillist painting of trees showing dimension and form by color mixing.

Step 1:  Introduce the work of Georges Seurat.
Step 2:  Choose a smaller sized piece of paper.  We used 9 x 12″.  Lightly sketch a landscape with pencil. 
Step 3:  Using a paintbrush, Q-tip or pencil eraser, dip the end into paint and dab dots of color on your picture.  Include various shades and colors in each section.  For example, in your grass, use dots of yellows, greens and browns. 

A colorful childlike drawing of a beach scene with a sailboat, two beach chairs, water, and Pointillist trees.

Colorful Pointillist Trees painting of a tree with a green field and a vibrant rainbow background, suitable for third grade art projects.

A Pointillism painting of a river, tree, green landscape, and a small boat under a clouded blue sky.

A pointillist painting of a tree with brown branches and a trunk against a dotted blue and green background.


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About Marcia Beckett

Marcia is an elementary art teacher and loves painting, drawing, sculpture, art journaling and clay. Her blog, Art is Basic, features many exciting art projects for kids.

4 Responses to Pointillist Trees- third/fourth grade

  1. What a great lesson to teach the method of Pointillism.

    The trees are beautiful, I love them all.

  2. Emma says:

    I enjoyed a series on the Impressionists recently & thse works are lovely. had fun looking at a few 'artists in blogland', too!

  3. Great post. i wanted to introduce you to a children's book about artist Georges Seurat. It's called “The Primary Kids Meet Georges Seurat.” I wrote, illustrated and published the book after being inspired, as an art teacher, to create stories that can be used to teach young students. It was a long process, but a very rewarding one too!

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