Eye on Color

5th grade artist examined the differences between realism and surrealism. Students then used charcoal medium to give shade and depth to a realistic sketch of the human eye, students also used oil pastel medium to create a color wheel inside of the eye, giving it a surreal effect.

To culminate the lesson 5th graders held a debate over which art style was more interesting: Hyper-realism or Surrealism. The class was spilt into research, survey, debate teams and a judge and a jury. Hyper realism was the winner in both the debate and the school survey!

Be sure to check out Hyper real art: paintings with such detail to light and color they appear to be a photograph!

Here is a sample artist:http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/hyper-realistic-paintings-by-steve-mills/