Optical illusions art drawing easy

Last week I pinned a fabulous optical illusion art idea from We Heart Art. She had completed this activity with her fifth graders, and I thought it would make a fantastic first lesson for my students. I tried it out with my oldest daughter last weekend (she's in grade 3), and when she achieved great results, I knew it would be perfect. This is a perfect art lesson for the beginning of the year because it uses only a few materials, has simple directions, and turns out to be an impressive work…

Posts about hexagons written by grasshoppermind

3D art, some more complex than others. You could try-out the simpler ones and work your way up. Have you heard of the saying: "You have to see it to believe it." We rely on our sensory organs to make sense of the world. People like Hungarian Artist Sándor Vámos prove to us, that they are not as reliable as we might first think. In all of these drawings, our mind is telling us that there is a third dimension, that does not actually exist. Take for example, the incline illustration and the…

Optical illusion drawing [Video] | Optical illusion drawing, Line art drawings, Illusion drawings

Op art, also known as optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op art works are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give th…

I love Op Art and I thought it would be the perfect lesson to teach Art 1's how to use colored pencils. We began by discussing O...