Van Gogh Art Project

 Description: In class we learned about Vincent Van Gogh and looked at his famous painting, Starry Night. After learning about him and seeing his painting, we were able to create our own. We could choose any colors of tissue paper for our sky background. I was ripping apart the tissue paper then placing it on the construction paper. After the whole background was filled up with tissue paper and dry, I added on my landscape. For my landscape I chose to do Mount Calvary with the three crosses. To make the project like Starry Night, I used oil pastels and added swirls and movement into the sky. I also used the oil pastels to add stars into the sky. 

Extension Activity: I could use this project when students are learning about different weather patterns. I could assign students to make a project showing either sunny weather, rainy weather, stormy weather, snowy weather, or windy weather. They could create their back ground with the colored tissue paper that reminds them of that specific weather. For example if they were to choose snowy weather, they would probably choose more blues and grays. After their background, they would use oil pastels to create the actual weather. For the snowy weather they could draw on snow flakes. Finally, adding on their landscape could be them adding snow hills.