4th Grade Vasarely Spheres

Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian French artist whose work is generally seen as aligned with Op-art. After viewing some of Vasarely's work, as well as other optical illusions, the students drew out a circle and a grid onto a piece of 12 x 18 white drawing paper. The vertical and horizontal lines that cross through the circle were curved to give the illusion that the circle is actually three dimensional. The students then chose 1-2 marker colors to create a pattern. Once the pattern was completed, the students used vine charcoal around the sphere to create a shadow, as if the sphere was floating above the checkerboard grid.