Description:
Before starting our Vincent Van Gogh art project, we were shown a slideshow of different facts about Van Gogh and some of his most famous paintings. While looking at some of Van Gogh's paintings I noticed that most of his artwork had a similar theme that they followed, which was swirling lines. The following art project was inspired by Van Gogh's "Starry Night" painting. We used Van Gogh's theme of swirls to make our own "Starry Night" portrait.
Day 1 of creating Van Gogh Inspired Art Collage. To create this project we used the following materials; tissue paper, construction paper, and acrylic gel medium. We also got to choose between sharpies, oil pastels, crayons, etc. to create movement and the use of swirls for our art project. The first thing we did was choose a dark-colored construction paper (black works best). Next, we thought of a background we wanted to make. I chose a sunset background. The background doesn't have to be anything specific, it could just be a bunch of random colors. Once we thought of a background we grabbed different colored tissue paper. We ripped the tissue paper into any size and shape and used a gel medium to glue down the tissue paper. The gel medium glues down the tissue paper but dries clear. We let the gel medium dry until the next class period.
Day 2 of creating Van Gogh Inspired Art Collage. Once the gel medium was dry, we made a silhouette of anything that we wanted to. I chose to do an island with a single palm tree. Once with cut out the silhouette, we glued it onto the background. The final step of the project was to use some kind of drawing utensil (oil pastel, sharpie, crayon, etc.) to create movement on your art project. Overall I had a lot of fun with this art project and thought it turned out really good!
Extension Activity:
An extension activity that I would do using this art project is having students pick their favorite food, sports team, sport, etc. and their silhouette would represent whatever their favorite thing is. The background would be the team colors or colors that corresponded with their favorite thing. I would do this activity at the beginning of the year to get to know my students. Once they are done with their art project, I would display them in the hallway for other students and staff to look at and get to know my students better.
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