Pointillism

Collin asked me today if there was a way to draw a picture without making a line. At first I told him no - I'm a math person so I'm thinking about lines with 2 dimensions 3 dimension's... But then he gave an example of just coloring everything and it reminded me of a picture I told him about that I saw in a museum of an old women but if you looked close it was all thumbprints.

Then I told him about pointillism's (yes, I use terms like pointillism with a 6 year old!) I explained about the Impressionist painters and about Monet and VanGogh...

This evening he brought me these pictures he drew of a couple of dinosaurs and their footprints - which he created using pointillism...
So, Rainey, when your art students complain about not understanding terms or homework is to hard tell them about your 6 year old nephew who learned about pointillism and that day went out and experimented with it on his own...