Here you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial video for a Delaunay Art Project and Delaunay Coloring Page. It’s fun to slice and dice lots of circles.

Delaunay Circles

This Delaunay art project borrows Delaunay’s style of creating many concentric circles, and splitting just a few in half. A circle template certainly comes in handy for such a job, especially when it comes to centering circles within each other.

Robert Delaunay, was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement. It was famous for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. Delaunay’s career provided a bridge to future developments of more abstraction in art.

In addition to painting, Delaunay also wrote a lot about his work. He was said to believe that the idea of color was a thing in itself, with its own powers of expression and form. He thought contrast and harmony in colors produced their own movement in the eye of the viewer. His career was spent experimenting with that idea, which ended up influencing many artists that followed him.

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Delaunay Circles, Sharpie brush makers on finger paint paper

Materials for Delaunay Art Project

Drawing Paper

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Pencils

I like how this brand always makes nice dark lines.

Sharpie Markers Black

A permanent marker will give you a dark black color.

Colored Pencils or Crayons

A larger pack will offer more color choices.

Directions

Time needed: 1 hour

How to draw Delaunay Circles

Collect tools of a large lid to trace, circle template and a ruler.

Use a lid to trace a circle in a corner. It should be about 5” wide.

Use template to trace a large circle in the opposite corner, add center dots.

Use a ruler to connect the two dots.

Use template to add more circles inside. Align so they are concentric.

Draw at least three more medium circles around the page.

Use template to add more circles inside. Align so they are concentric.

Fill in any other open spaces with one or more small circles.

Trace with a marker and color. Try using a limit of 6 colors or less so that they are all repeated several times.

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