B”H

BY: Neshama Sari

BY: Chaya Ita Coates

PAINTING THE SONG OF CREATION

  • third day of creation Hashem created the grass and trees
    • the third day of the week corresponds to Tiferes- harmony is yellow and purple
      • Understanding-“Bina” is actually green
      • When we understand; we are able to grow; understanding leads to growth!
      • we can understand something by taking all the details and creating a big picture
      • should we focus on the details of our lives?
      • yes if makes us happy
      • and no if we are obsessing about whats imperfect
      • getting stuck on the details may takes away from seeing whole picture how?
      • IN OUR LESSON WE WILL CREATE A BIGGER PICTURE BY PAINTING SMALL DETAILS: HOW?
        • pointillism:
        • you take cotton swabs/qtips
        • dip in paint to create the harmonious day of creation the third day to paint flowers grass and trees
        • POINTILISM TECHNIQUE
  • Technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image.Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The term “Pointillism” was coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation.[1] The movement Seurat began with this technique is known as Neo-impressionism. The Divisionists, too, used a similar technique of patterns to form images, though with larger cube-like brushstrokes.[2]The majority of Pointillism is done in oil paint. Anything may be used in its place, but oils are preferred for their thickness and tendency not to run or bleed.[4]

    One form of painting that developed in the late 1800s involves using tiny dots of primary colors to create pictures in which secondary colors can be seen. This technique is called pointillism, and it was first used to describe the work of French artist Georges Seurat.

    Seurat, along with fellow artist Paul Signac, was inspired by the Impressionist paintings of the day. Seurat began to paint using small, distinct dots — points — of pure color. He arranged these points into patterns that, when viewed as a whole, formed a beautiful image.

    Pointillism takes advantage of the way our eyes work with our brains. Instead of seeing hundreds or thousands of individual dots of color, our eyes and brains can blend those dots of color into multiple colors that then form an image.

    Pointillism is not an easy technique to master. Today, there are very few artists who practice the technique. Instead, most modern artists blend their colors on a palette to achieve the range of colors they want viewers to see on a canvas.

    Many people notice that pointillist works seem brighter than other paintings. This is probably due to the fact that the individual color points used are quite bright, plus the fact that thousands of tiny points of bright white canvas are visible between the dots of color.

    One of the most famous pointillist works was created by Seurat between 1884 and 1886. His Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) is a large-scale painting that critics believe altered the direction of modern art by starting a style that would become known as Neo-impressionism.

    We included quotes about focusing on the big picture as well as painting a pointilist art work!

  • “LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE”

-“DON’T TELL HSHEM HOW BIG YOUR PROBLEMS ARE TELL YOUR PROBLEMS HOW BIG HASHEM IS”

-“YOU CANT DO BIG THINGS IF YOU ARE DISTRACTED BY SMALL THINGS”

-“THINK BIG, DREAM BIG, BELIEVE BIG AND THE RESULTS WILL BE BIG”

-“YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BUILD SOMETHING FAR BIGGER THAN YOURSELF”

-“WHEN I TALK TO MANAGERS I GET THE FEELING THAT THEY ARE IMPORTANT, WHEN I TALK TO LEADERS, I GET THE FEELING I AM IMPORTANT”

-“The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you have come”

-“in small and petty arguments, it isn’t about who is right or wrong, but who can be the bigger person”

-“keep seeing the bigger picture, one day all of this will be worth it”

-“actually I think art lies in both directions-the broad strokes, big picture and on the other hand, the minute examination of the apparently mundane. seeing the whole world in a grain of sand” (see Hshem in the essence of all the details, from my flesh (details of cells) I will see Hshem)

-“the thing about seeing the big picture and being self aware-is knowing that its not about you, its about the big picture” (bring  Hshem in, bring light, try to overlook the not positive details and move on to spread light)

-“Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly” (objectively, Hashem’s view, Hashem’s love)

-“Let your faith be bigger than your fear”

-“You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself”