Thursday, December 26, 2013

Winter Starry Night

My second grade students looked at Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night picture.  We used cray-pa and watercolor resist to create our night skies and then collaged our trees and villages on top.  Details were then added with color pencil. We also used white paint for snow and a little glitter glue to add sparkle to the moon and stars. 
I tried to encourage my students to add some things that they noticed about van Gogh's artwork into their own.  Many of them added texture, used different lines similar to his brushstrokes, and added different shades of colors in the sky, stars and trees.


As a review we used the app Popplet on the iPad to make mind-maps about what inspired them about starry night.



1 comment:

  1. These are so much more charming than just having the kids replicate Van Gogh's Starry Night. Bravo to your students!!

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