Many artists in the late 1800's and early 1900's seemed to be inspired by performers in circus and vaudville acts. Degas, Seurat, Charles Demuth, Alexander Calder to get you started. You can even watch the circus act Calder sculpted in action in a video on youtube. We mostly focused on Seurat's "Circus" and also discussed pointillism. My hope was the children would try it, but I didn't force anyone into it. I did push the children to fill in the entire piece of paper. We used colored pencils or oil pastels on small pieces of paper (4"X6" and 4"X4") and drew pictures of -you guessed it, circus acts.
A tip for doing pointillism (or impressionism too) with oil pastels is to remember to push and lift with the crayon so the paint will stick rather than trying to just poke or dot the paper or color with them like crayons.
Here's some photos. Sorry the ones taken at the art show are a little fuzzy- it was super humid that day and I could not keep my camera lens from fogging up even for a few seconds to take a photo.
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