Van Gogh Silhouette

The inspiration behind this art project is Vincent Van Gough's painting A Starry Night. In this project we used a large black piece of construction paper as our background. Then we used different colors of tissue paper and attached them to the construction paper using modge podge. This is better than just strictly using glue because glue won't exactly add that glossy layer on top of the tissue paper. once the modge podge had dried, we used a variety of colored oil pastels to help create movement on the paper. If you look at the left side of my project, you can see green and blue dashed lines! After adding movement with oil pastels, we cut out a silhouette of our choice. I did a silhouette of a city!

Below the project you see a golden ticket. On this ticket are facts we learned about Vincent Van Gough before completing the project.

An extension activity that you could do is make stained glass paintings with tissue paper! What you'll need is tissue paper that bleeds, watercolor paper, water, a spray bottle, and a white crayon. first you'll have your students draw a design on the water color paper using white crayon. The design will show up once they are done with the project. Next, pre-wet the watercolor paper by spraying it with a spray bottle filled with water. You can also choose to use a paintbrush if you’d like. Apply the tissue paper squares randomly or in a planned arrangement. Spraying more water over the squares to accelerate the color “bleeding”. Allow the water to dry before removing the squares. Once you remove the squares, the color will have transferred onto the watercolor panel, revealing your drawing and the color from the squares! I'd say you could do this with grades 1st-3rd grade.