Learning Exercise
Op Art Design
Students will use some of the basic techniques that Op artists used to create their own optical illusion drawings.
Course: 8th grade art
- Material:
- 61 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena
- Date last modified:
- February 7, 2007
- Created by:
- Annette Trabucco
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Exercise
Students will review different visual resources where artists created optical illusions. You will explain that artists use 3 basic techniques to create these illusions.
1. Equalized positive and negative space-show examples and explain.
2. High contrasting colors-Complementary colors, black and white.
3. Implied vanishing point
Students will create a design that includes at least one vanishing point and shows an equal amount of positive and negative space by alternating each space in black and white (like a checkerboard). Once the design is colored in black and white equally, students will pick a complementary color scheme to color in some of the white spaces in the design showing a gradual change in value to increase the illusion of depth. In another area, the white spaces will be colored using the other complementary color.