Description: The students learned about the impressionist artist Van Gogh. We did a class analysis on Starry Night and listened to the song Vincent by Don McLean which was inspired by the painting. For the project, it is made using tissue paper, oil pastel, acrylic medium, and construction paper. Starting with the construction paper as a base, we painted a small section with the acrylic medium and places a torn piece of tissue paper on top. Then, we pained more acrylic medium on top. Some tissue paper may bleed so be wary of that. Cover the entire top section of the paper until it is full. Then set it aside to dry. On a second sheet of construction paper, create a kind of landscape silhouette. Use oil pastels to mimic the lines and pattern of Starry Night. Once dry, do the same to the paper covered in tissue paper, this will be your "sky". Some students made an under the sea landscape, give them different ideas of landscapes to get unique results. Lastly, glue the landscape construction paper on top of your tissue paper construction paper. Don't forget to write your name on the back!
Extension Activity: A great extension activity you could do along with this is relate it to stars. When teaching about the different stars and constellations, this could work well to show how people have been looking at the sky for a long time and how artists, like Van Gogh, have painted them in artworks.
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