Wayne ThiebaudWayne Thiebaudhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_QJ5D9Qm8

• Wayne Thiebaud• Dessert artist!• Loved repeating the same shape• Liked thick paint (almost like icing!)• Still alive• Lives in Sacramento

Art VocabularyArt Vocabulary• Repetition (hint: think ‘repeat’)• Variety- using different shapes and sizes• Horizon line- the line at were sky and earth meet. • Perspective- The appearance of things determined by their

distance from the viewer.

What shapes are repeated? Do you see a variety of desserts?Look carefully at the plates. Can you see the colorful outlines?

What shapes are repeated? What color are the shadows? Do you see the horizon line? Do you see the brightly colored outlines?

What shapes are repeated? Do you see the thick paint?

What a nice variety of cakes! Which cake is a different shape?

Thick paint…and a new shape…Do you see the horizon line?

The slice of cake shows perspective the slice is going back into space.

What lines and shapes are repeated?

How are these desserts the same? How are they different?

Smithsonian Art Museum in Washington DC.

Art VocabularyArt Vocabularycan you define:can you define:

• Repetition (hint: think ‘repeat’)• Variety• Horizon Line• Perspective