Mondrian Masterpieces on the iPad!

This week in Computing, we crossed over into the art world and took inspiration from the famous Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian!

Mondrian's style is simple but striking: he used only straight lines, squares, and rectangles, painted with the primary colours (red, yellow, and blue), plus black and white.

Creating Digital Art

Using the iPads, we became digital artists! Our goal was to recreate Mondrian’s abstract style:

• Straight Lines: We focused on using the straight line tool to divide our canvas into sections. We learned how to adjust the thickness of the lines to make some sections stand out more than others.
• Squares and Rectangles: The intersecting black lines naturally created different-sized squares and rectangles across our screen.
• Primary Power: We used the fill tool to select and apply block colours to our shapes, sticking strictly to the primary colours (red, yellow, blue) and keeping the remaining sections white.

The fill tool was a great feature to explore—it taught us that our lines needed to be perfectly connected for the colour to stay inside the shape! This helped us practice precision in our digital drawing.

It was amazing to see how just a few simple rules (lines, rectangles, and primary colours) can lead to so many unique and striking pieces of digital art!

Ask me at home:

• Which three colours are the primary colours?
• Can you describe a painting by Piet Mondrian?