Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was an artist who used color to create rhythms, movement and emotion in her work.  A pioneering figure in early modernism, she forged new paths in abstract painting and design. Delaunay worked in many mediums including oil paint, gouache, watercolor, print, fashion, textiles, decorative objects, theatre design and murals. In her native Ukranian language , Sonia, can mean "sun". Sonia Delaunay spent a lifetime capturing the light, color and movement of the sun. Circles were a predominant motif in all of her work. She created rhythms in her paintings by interlacing sections of circles. Delaunay dissects circles and reassembles them in different tones so that they cascade, rotate and move like parts of a machine. 

Students studied Delaunay's compositions, and then created their own abstracts in her style.  Instead of using paint they worked with digital tools.