Vincent Van Gogh Inspired Landscape Project

 

Description: This activity was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's rendition of Starry Night. We had to use different elements of design to capture his idea of a landscape. We had to use three different types of media. I used tissue paper, oil pastels, and black paper. We used a type of modge podge to glue the tissue paper on the background, that way it would stay down nicely. We then had to make the landscape that would go on top of the background. I chose to do under the sea because of the tissue paper colors that I chose. After gluing the landscape in we had to use another media, so I added some waves with oil pastels. 


Extension Activity: For this extension activity I would have the students write two paragraphs about the history of Vincent Van Gogh and why they think their project portrays his image of a starry night. 

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