FIFTH GRADE . . . Illusions!

Courtney's illusion of a cupcake is beautifully drawn. Can you find the first letter "C"?

Maurits Cornelis Escher, best known to us as M.C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. His woodcut, called "Sky and Water," from 1938, is typical of Escher's work. It plays around with the positive and negative spaces in the print, tricking us to focus on just the birds in the sky and not realizing that the white spaces between the birds actually create the fish in the water. In mathematical terms, his artwork is often called a tessellation, a repetition of tiles that fit together like a puzzle.

Fifth graders worked on original illusions with one image that transforms into another image. This project was difficult for us to do and definitely called on our creative thinking skills. It is hard enough to solve a problem, even harder to come up with our own puzzle for everyone else to solve!

Here are a few more examples of our illusions. To see all of our work, check out our exhibit page on Artsonia.com.  http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=114839

Rithvik's illusion focuses on an adorable drawing of a boy. Do you see the word boy as well?

Ruby created a real tessellation just like M.C. Escher.
The negative space between the orange birds forms the head of another bird perfectly!

Krishna's illusion is a play on the word ruler. Do you see the two meanings of the word?

Lynna's illusion takes us on a visual journey with her letters. What country is this?

Cole's delicious illusion is right in the crust design of his pie!

Gabriel's initials are GG. His illusion was tricky to do but represents him well!

Elle's illusion is perfect for an artist. What drawing tool would you use to write the word pencil?

Abriella stumps us with a puzzle. She wrote the word fruit, but what kind of fruit is this?