Van Gogh Inspired

This picture is inspired from Van Gogh's "Starry Night" painting. It is a city scape using tissue paper and focusing on background, middle ground, and foreground. We used tissue paper and sharpie markers or oil pastels. We were also focusing on movement in the background.

An extension activity off of this could be using a different medium to reenact the Starry Night. You could let the children choose or you could have the materials already set out.

Van Gogh Inspired

This is a finger painted picture inspired by Van Gogh's "A Starry Night". We did our own variation of it and used our imagination. It would be for the kindergarten level. We were focusing on the background, foreground, and middle ground to create movement like Van Gogh used in his paintings. Then I Framed it by putting construction paper behind it.

For this activity you could mix it up by having them either do their own type of starry night or have them try and paint the Starry Night again. 

Elements and Principles of Art

Below are 5 pictures of Elements and Principles of art. In order they are: emphasis, contrast, geometric shapes, texture, and organic shapes.