Van Gogh's Style Continued

Van Gogh's Style in an Inspired Tissue Paper CollageThis project also incorporated Van Gogh's style of movement by using a tissue paper design.  To start the project, I cut out different colors of curved lines and spirals to create movement for the artwork.  I arranged the cut-out pieces on my black construction paper to show a flow that Van Gogh had in his paintings.  I chose many colors from the color wheel, because I love incorporating lots of colors to bring out the mood in an artwork.  The more colors, the more excitement I believe the piece shows to the one viewing it!  The large yellow shapes and lines in the top right corner displays the Sun rising that day in the scene.  The white tissue paper pieces I chose to use gave me my clouds in my picture.  Once I had all my pieces arranged accordingly, I used an acrylic paste, which is like modge-podge, to stick them to the paper.  This gives the artwork a shiny look to it.  While the paste was drying, I cut-out a skyline of buildings to be added to the collage.  I had a few buildings that were homes, a few businesses, and a church.  The skyline cut-out was glued to the tissue paper arrangement, and showed movement as the buildings were different heights.  Colored oil pastels and a silver Sharpie were used to add lines to emphasize more movement in this piece.  Wrapping it up, this scene shows a new day beginning as the Sun is rising and the sky is painted with colors.  The skyline of buildings tie the whole morning city scene together using the great technique...movement!

The extension activity for this project in the classroom, would be for the students to create a Van Gogh tissue paper collage of their vision of what they prefer city or country life.  They would make a tissue paper design like we did, and have their creativity come into action.  They can make a city or country scene when it comes to adding the layered building/landscape to the paper.  Have the students think about where they would prefer to live, would it be in the city or country?  They would write a paragraph to share why they prefer one or the other.  We would share these by hanging them on the classroom walls after the students share about them!  This is a great opportunity to see the students' different preferences, and let them show the city/country scene using tissue paper for a medium to display movement!

"A Beautiful Start to a Brand New Day"