Pastel art projects for kids degas

Here we move on to Impressionism with a twist: depicting movement and motion.

Edgar Degas composed off-center drawings and paintings depicting “real life” situations at unusual angles and many times he showed a sense of movement using repeated and blurred lines and edges.

He is especially known for his paintings of dancers and horses. The Degas Picture Study Pages (pictured at the top of this post) are from the Great Artists Picture Study Packet

Degas Art Project: Movement & Motion

Because we decided to use crayon resist to show movement and motion in our painting, I created templates of different images: ballerinas, horses, butterflies, cars, trains, a ball, a star, a cat, a dog, construction equipment.

Another option is to have students create their own image to cut out and use as a template, but prepared templates made this particular project more manageable for our family.

Supplies:

• Degas Art Study Pages