Wednesday, September 16, 2015

van Gogh Sunflowers (1st Grade)

Known for his unique painting style and cultural influence, our first graders discovered how to identify Vincent van Gogh’s brush techniques throughout his artist portfolio. We dissected his unique Landscape paintings, portraits, and still life paintings that are now coveted by national museums around the world.


     For this project the first graders created their own vase of sunflowers by incorporating mixed media into their artwork. Mixed media is the use of multiple types of mediums such as paint, paper, and pencil. The students used watercolor paint for their background and table top, construction paper and construction crayons for their vase and decoration aspect of the piece, and then tissue paper for the sunflowers to create a three dimensional aspect to their artwork. Though structured with a common objective in mind, each vase of flowers resulted in the unique characteristics of each student.

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