Thursday, February 20, 2014

Van Gogh's Starry Night

Our first elementary art project of the year was inspired by Van Gogh's Starry Night painting:


This is one of my all time favorite works of art, even if it is "overplayed".



I taught the kids about Van Gogh's life and style of using lines to form shapes and using color to express emotion. Then I gave them blue construction paper and oil pastels to draw the sky using Van Gogh's style. Then they got black construction paper to cut out shapes for objects in the landscape that they colored with oil pastels and glued onto their picture.  There were so many great ones, here are a few:









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