Delaunay Art Project

Attempt an like shooting fish in a barrel Delaunay art projection with this abstruse lesson. It's fun to experiment with the idea of slicing and dicing lots of circles.

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A finished Delaunay Art drawing

Robert Delaunay, was a French creative person who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism fine art move. It was famous for its utilise of potent colors and geometric shapes. Delaunay's career provided a bridge to future developments of more brainchild in fine art.

In improver to painting, Delaunay also wrote a lot about his work. He was said to believe that the idea of colour was a thing in itself, with its own powers of expression and form. He idea contrast and harmony in colors produced their own movement in the eye of the viewer. He spent his career experimenting with that idea, which ended up influencing many artists that followed him.

This project borrows Delaunay'southward style of creating many concentric circles, and splitting just a few in half. A circle template certainly comes in handy for such a job, particularly when it comes to centering circles within each other.

Preview of the Delaunay PDF Tutorial

Delaunay art project

Delaunay Coloring Folio

MATERIALS

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  • Drawing Paper. Don't substitute it with copy newspaper or construction paper. The surface volition get fuzzy, erasing might cause holes, and the colors will generally non look as brilliant.
  • Pencil. The Ticonderoga brand are the most reliable, make dainty dark lines when you demand them, and are the easiest to erase.
  • Eraser. Large ones yous can hold in your manus do a much improve task than just the pencil tips. Stabilo Markers. They have the best colors, the best tips, and last the longest.
  • Blackness Sharpie Mark. These fine betoken permanent markers make squeamish black lines, take a good tip for coloring, and never bleed when they go wet. Use them in areas with good ventilation and add extra newspaper underneath for tabular array protection.
  • Stabilo Markers. The large pack provides lots of fun colour choices, several shades of each colour, including a few choices for skin. The tips are perfect for coloring, and there's even a promise that they volition work subsequently beingness uncapped for 8 weeks!
Delaunay art project
A Delaunay Circle art journal drawing, with watercolor pencils

DIRECTIONS

Time needed:1 hour.

How to draw Delaunay Circles

  1. Draw a large circle and centre dot.

  2. Add smaller circle and center dot.

  3. Use a straight edge to connect the dots.

  4. Add concentric circles. The goal is to have a diversity of thick and thin rings.

  5. Draw another set of larger circles.

  6. Add a smaller set of circles.

  7. Make full in the remaining infinite with circles.

  8. End smaller spaces with circles.

  9. Trace with a marker and colour.

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