Van Gogh Collage

For this project, we had to create a collage based on Vincent Van Gogh's painting of "The Starry Night." We learned about Vincent Van Gogh and some of his work. Then we had to create a collage. For this, we started off by gluing on tissue paper that we cut out in random designs to show movement like Van Gogh has in his Starry Night painting. We then had to create a landscape and glue that on over the tissue paper. I created a house in the countryside for my landscape. We then used oil pastels for more detail and also to add more movement as well. This was a fun project based off of a real painting that we could take and create as our own. It is cool because it is based off a famous painting but is unique and creative because we got to create it how we want instead of having everyone try to recreate the painting.

For an extension activity with this project, the students would write a paragraph about their landscape and why they chose that landscape. This is an extension activity because it is associated with language arts since they are writing about their artwork.