7th Grade Op Art (Optical Art)

OPTICAL ART: The Middle School Art Classes at Timberlane Regional Middle School created Optical Art designs using pencils, rulers, measured formulas, value scales and color gradations. Students studied: 1. The concept of Math and Art combined: Victor Vasarelli's Optical Art. 2. A geometrical mathmatical formula for creating curves with straight lines. 3. Value and Gradations: value scales, flat, volumetric, and spatial shading. 4. Students then used pencil and colored pencil to create a colorful Op Art Design incorporating Value Scales (black to gray to white) as well as all three Gradations from the color wheel: yellow to blue, yellow to red, and red to blue...using these primary colors this way, the secondary and even the tertiary colors follow naturally.