The front cover for the book called The Dot.
Because we were looking at the artist Damien Hirst, and learning about shapes in math, we decided to make our own dot pictures on white canvas. We were also inspired by the book The Dot (obviously)!
One of Damien Hirst's dot pictures.
After we read the book, we measured the canvas and then cut a piece of paper to the same size. This meant that we could do a rough draft and know what the canvas would look like. Then we practiced drawing dots with our compasses. Each group had to decide on a different radius for their circles (a radius is the measurement from the center to the end of the circle).
At last we were on to the canvas. We liked the canvas because it was easier than using paper for drawing circles. The difference about the canvas and paper was that the canvas was squishier and the paper would move and the canvas wouldn’t.
Room 15 spend a very long time on their dots. They were really hard, especially for the groups that had small radius’s and so had to draw a lot of dots.
Now we shall tell you about the color. We mixed colors with our groups and we named some of them first red orange, navy green, forest green, sky blue, super pink, navy gold, night blue, mystic blue, dark violet, nacho cheese, monarch red, sandy gray, juicy peach, misty grey, electric cheese, insane indigo, dark red, mauve, sandy brown, caterpillar green, destroyer green.
Room 15 spend a very long time on their dots. They were really hard, especially for the groups that had small radius’s and so had to draw a lot of dots.
Now we shall tell you about the color. We mixed colors with our groups and we named some of them first red orange, navy green, forest green, sky blue, super pink, navy gold, night blue, mystic blue, dark violet, nacho cheese, monarch red, sandy gray, juicy peach, misty grey, electric cheese, insane indigo, dark red, mauve, sandy brown, caterpillar green, destroyer green.