Vincent Van Gogh Project

 

Description: We reviewed Van Gogh's paintings and the elements that he used throughout his artwork. Our class viewed a PowerPoint with facts about Vincent Van Gogh as well as photos of paintings that he created throughout his life as an artist. For our project, we used different colored tissue paper to create a background. My landscape is based on what I think it would be like to live in an area like Alaska. I used mainly cool colors in my sky to represent wind and then added some warm colors in the top right-hand corner to symbolize the sun. We also used oil pastels to create lines and swirls in the background like Van Gogh did throughout his artwork. 

Extension: An extension activity I think would be interesting with this art assignment would be for the students to write a short narrative on their background and image the made using descpritve language and their imaginations. Students can name their place and relate it back to a place they know or somewhere they would like to create. Their narrative and artwork will later be hung up in the hallway or classroom.