Showing posts with label Van Gogh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Van Gogh. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Van Gogh Sunflowers
My plan this week was to do Van Gigh watercolor Sunflowers with all of my 2nd and 3rd grade classes...but I got bored. Does that ever happen to you? Well, I stuck to my original lesson plan as far as the objective goes, but I changed things up a bit for my own entertainment. And for the sake of decorating the school, nobody wants to see 4 classes with the SAME project. So...we made construction paper Sunflowers instead! It was a bit more prep work but these will look darling hangin in the hallway!
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Van Gogh Sunflowers
I just LOVE teaching about Van Gogh. Kids can learn so much from him. Such as his unique sense of color and texture, his depiction of movement and rhythm, his whimsical subject matter, and his sheer determination in his art. I read the book 'Camille and the Sunflowers' before we began our lesson. Students drew their still life with sharpies and then used watercolors to add color. I showed them how to mix colors together on their paper like Van Gogh did. Aren't they adorable!?
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Starry Starry Night
I decided it was time to break out a lesson on the ever-popular Starry Night for my 2nd graders. I found this fun video on You Tube that I shared with the class before we began our painting:
I went over Van Gogh's textural use of paint & his depiction of movement and rhythm. This was a very messy project, so I suggest a tall cup of coffee to any of my adventurous colleagues beginning this lesson. First, we worked with dark blue paint for the sky. Next, I had the students dip a fork in white and yellow to mimic the effect of impasto and Van Gogh's brushstrokes. Then, we added yellow dots to the sky and circled around them with the forks. The students then worked on the mountains & the ground, first with a solid color and then dipping their fork in contrasting colors to add the impasto effect. Lastly, we painted the large tree in the foreground with black & used brown on the fork to add texture.
Step 2 was creating the houses for the little village in the second class period. It was just too much to do this in day 1, so I thought it would be best to wait until the paint has dried. When I passed out their paintings I asked them to compare and contrast their paintings to Van Gogh's painting and think about what we need to add to make ours more similar to the original Starry Night. They pointed out things like the moon, the houses, and smaller trees & bushes. I had the students draw the objects on white paper, color them with colored pencils, and glue them to the background. Voila!
I went over Van Gogh's textural use of paint & his depiction of movement and rhythm. This was a very messy project, so I suggest a tall cup of coffee to any of my adventurous colleagues beginning this lesson. First, we worked with dark blue paint for the sky. Next, I had the students dip a fork in white and yellow to mimic the effect of impasto and Van Gogh's brushstrokes. Then, we added yellow dots to the sky and circled around them with the forks. The students then worked on the mountains & the ground, first with a solid color and then dipping their fork in contrasting colors to add the impasto effect. Lastly, we painted the large tree in the foreground with black & used brown on the fork to add texture.
Step 2 was creating the houses for the little village in the second class period. It was just too much to do this in day 1, so I thought it would be best to wait until the paint has dried. When I passed out their paintings I asked them to compare and contrast their paintings to Van Gogh's painting and think about what we need to add to make ours more similar to the original Starry Night. They pointed out things like the moon, the houses, and smaller trees & bushes. I had the students draw the objects on white paper, color them with colored pencils, and glue them to the background. Voila!
Sidney's painting
Brian's painting
Alan's painting
Aaliyah B.'s painting
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Van Gogh Line Drawings
I know that Van Gogh can be a little overdone in elementary school art, but I find that students can relate to his artwork easily because they tend to think that all art should be an exact representation of something, and are easily awed at Impressionist art because it is only an "impression" and not an exact copy. Also, Van Gogh is a great artist to study when working on line drawings and texture.
For this assignment students began by watching the video, Who is The Artist: Cezanne, Van Gogh, Seurat (which I have to say, is NOT the best video for elementary age students, but we made it through). Next, I played the PowerPoint on the TV screen that showed three of Van Gogh's paintings on a slideshow. The students were to choose one of the three paintings to duplicate through a line drawing.
I taught the students how to make a simple plan on their paper before adding the color by dividing the space into sections where they will then add the lines and color later. This is an important skill to get the students to think about simplifying an object and not becoming overwhelmed at trying to duplicate the subject. It also helps the students to break-up a subject into shapes, drawing the easiest first and adding the complicated details later. Next, the students used markers to add a variety of lines to each section of their paper, trying to use the colors that Van Gogh used in his original paintings.
For this assignment students began by watching the video, Who is The Artist: Cezanne, Van Gogh, Seurat (which I have to say, is NOT the best video for elementary age students, but we made it through). Next, I played the PowerPoint on the TV screen that showed three of Van Gogh's paintings on a slideshow. The students were to choose one of the three paintings to duplicate through a line drawing.
I taught the students how to make a simple plan on their paper before adding the color by dividing the space into sections where they will then add the lines and color later. This is an important skill to get the students to think about simplifying an object and not becoming overwhelmed at trying to duplicate the subject. It also helps the students to break-up a subject into shapes, drawing the easiest first and adding the complicated details later. Next, the students used markers to add a variety of lines to each section of their paper, trying to use the colors that Van Gogh used in his original paintings.
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