Van Gogh Inspired Collage

 

        This project is a landscape collage that I created using tissue paper. This project was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painting. For this project, I first picked out different sizes, shapes, and colors of tissue paper. I laid those pieces on a black piece of construction paper. After that, I took a gel medium and painted that over the whole paper to help the tissue paper stick. This gave it a glossy finish. After that, I used blue construction paper and cut out buildings that looked like a city landscape. Then, I used a silver sharpie marker to create many different lines on the gel medium and on the buildings. These lines with movement represented Van Gogh's style!

 

        An extension activity that you could do with something like this is have each student pick an artist and do a project similar to this one; such as using lines with movement to represent the artist's style. Also, students could share their project they created based on their artist then give a few facts or a short presentation on why they used the specific lines, colors, patterns, etc. that they did, based on their artist.

 

CHAPTERS 20-22 ART HISTORY:

        After reading chapters 20-22 on art history, I think there are alot of great ideas that you could use in your classroom to incorporate art history. One of the ideas that I really liked when I read about it was in chapter 21 when it talked about presentations on an Artist's life. I think these would be fun to do; students could even do them with partners. They would be interesting because then the students could create a piece of artwork, that resembles their artist's style to help explain them to the class. Also, chapter 21 has alot of art history vocabulary words. Students could each take a word; define/explain it and then create artwork based on that word or that represents that word. This gives students the opportunity to learn different words or about artists that they may not have known about before!

5 pictures of elements/principles of design

This picture is an example of the element lines. It is of a track. The lines on the track are white and some are straight, curved, or dashed.



This picture shows the principle pattern. It is of wallpaper. You can see the pattern of the different colored moons and stars that repeat eachother on the wallpaper.

This picture represents the principle of balance. It is a photo of a picture frame that hangs on a wall. The picture shows balance because if you would cut the picture frame in half either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, both sides would be the exact same and would represent symmetrical balance.

This is an example of the element texture. It is taken of the tiles on the floor of a bathroom. The texture is mainly smooth; the cracks of the tiles make it bumpy.

This picture is an example of the element value. It is taken of one of my purses. This picture has different lights and darks and it’s easy to see the value change on the purse between the white and black colors.